10 things in tech you need to know today, August 29

Riot Games, maker of League of Legends, has been
accused of fostering a hostile work
environment.
Riot
Games

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Wednesday.

1.
US president Donald Trump attacked Google several times on
Tuesday, claiming its search results were rigged against
conservative news outlets. Trump claimed Google was
“really taking advantage of a lot of people” and warned Silicon
Valley firms needed to be “careful.”

2.
Conservative Facebook employees are reportedly organizing to
attack the liberal company’s ‘intolerant’ culture.
More than 100 politically conservative Facebook employees have
formed a new internal group to complain that the famously liberal
company is “intolerant” of opposing political thought, according
to a report from The New York Times on Tuesday.

3.
Some Google employees allegedly threw a party in 2015 with
‘controlled substances’ after a successful self-driving car
demo. The so-called “Cocaine Cowboys” were
reportedly fired.

4.
YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul probably generated up to $11 million
with their boxing match last week. Meda reports
suggested that around 20,000 fans attended the match, while
773,000 paid to watch a livestream on YouTube.

5.
Riot Games, one of the world’s biggest game studios, has been hit
with multiple allegations of fostering a hostile, sexist work
environment. A former manager, Barry Hawkins,
detailed numerous incidents in a devastating blog post this week.

6.
Instagram says users can now evaluate the authenticity of
accounts. The company is introducing a new feature
to let users find out more information about the ads that various
accounts on the service pay for.

7.
The CEO of the company that makes ‘Fortnite’ spent days attacking
Google for scoring ‘cheap PR points’ by exposing a flaw in the
game’s security. Tim Sweeney said the firm revealing
the flaw so quickly just gave hackers the chance to exploit the
bug.

8.
YouTube has expanded its ‘digital wellbeing’ tools to include a
new metric telling users how much time they spend watching
videos. The new feature will track how much time the
user has spent watching videos over the previous 7 days.

9.
Amazon is preparing to roll out a new, free video streaming
service for Fire TV users. The ad-supported service,
tentatively called Free Dive, would be available free to users of
the Amazon Fire TV device.

10.
Oath — the Verizon business that includes Yahoo and AOL —
reportedly scans user emails for ad targeting. The
practice isn’t new, but Oath has recently been pitching
advertisers a service that scans more than 200 million inboxes
for buying habits.

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