Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers (restofworld.org)
IBM is registered as a sales company in Brazil, making its employees ineligible for benefits granted to tech workers....
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store in China (www.washingtonpost.com)
Apple has complied with the Chinese government’s request to remove several popular communication apps from its app store, including WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram, due to national security concerns. This action was taken following a directive from the Cyberspace Administration of China. These apps have been crucial...
We Need To Rewild The Internet (www.noemamag.com)
Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules (arstechnica.com)
Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)
“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic (www.helpnetsecurity.com)
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/11194362...
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store (www.theverge.com)
Caveat: It isn’t available in the app store in the EU, and is instead only available via the developer’s marketplace, AltStore¹. As far as I can tell, this genuinely isn’t because of greed, but because of a little detail in Apple’s EU rules (possibly wrong):...
Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be (wedistribute.org)
PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta (wedistribute.org)
Open source newsletter platform Ghost is considering joining the Fediverse (forum.ghost.org)
The nonprofit company is contemplating federating Ghost over ActivityPub. There is a survey asking users about their usage of ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon and how they expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost.
Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home (www.physics.ox.ac.uk)
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...
Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off (www.aalto.fi)
'Privacy. That’s Apple,’ the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University in Finland begs to differ....
How Subscription Services are designed to BANKRUPT you (piped.video)
Related: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi (d-shoot.net)
follow-up Mastodon thread from the author: hackers.town/
The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns (www.smh.com.au)
Almost 90 per cent of the global supply for polysilicon, a common raw material in electronic devices and solar panels, comes from China, and about half of that comes from Xinjiang, the north-western province that is home to the Uyghurs, says Grace Forrest, founder of Walk Free, a charity dedicating to fight forced labour....
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
Transparency advocates say that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's pursuit of “personal” connections with AI companies in China represents a concerning conflict of interest (www.wired.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13091735...
DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers (www.wired.com)
Needs archive.is link!