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‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video::“I’ve seen better acting by hostages in direct to DVD movies,” one anonymous worker wrote about the video.

eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people”::eBay must pay maximum fine for putting Massachusetts couple “through pure hell.”

The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....

eBay to pay $3 million after employees sent fetal pig, funeral wreath to Boston couple::The online auction company called the actions of its previous employees, which also consisted of social media threats, “wrong and reprehensible.”

Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140k for sending 80M+ spams | Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people::Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people

Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...

Computer chip maker announces furloughs at Oregon factory days after landing $72M from feds::Microchip described the furloughs as a temporary measure aimed at preventing layoffs.

For those of you who don’t want to use a ChatGPT but want a LLM.

Discord lays off 170 people, blames growing too quickly | TechCrunch::Discord has become a mainstay for many online communities in recent years, but its relative success hasn’t shielded the platform from the financial woes Discord is laying off 17% of staff, or 170 people.

US judge blocks Ohio Republicans’ “troublingly vague” social media law::Judge calls law “breathtakingly blunt instrument” for reducing harm to children.

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers - ‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’::‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’

As Disney pushes towards streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024::Disney-owned animation studio Pixar is poised to undergo layoffs this year, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. While sources at the company

In the fast-paced world of PC gaming, LDPlayer emerges as a revolutionary force, and its latest stride, epitomized in the call to “Revolutionize PC Gaming Now,” is marked by the LDPlayer on mac Download setting new standards in the gaming realm. Beyond the conventional boundaries of an emulator, LDPlayer stands as a...

The US is investigating if Boeing ensured a part that blew off a jet was made to design standards::The Federal Aviation Administration said that the investigation is focusing on plugs on Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners.

Israeli Group Claims It Uses Big Tech Back Channels to Take Down Content::Iron Truth members have flagged thousands of posts for removal, from clearly racist or false content to posts that are merely sympathetic to Palestinians.

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s total pay drops to $63 million for 2023.::Apple today published its annual proxy statement for investors, revealing a number of details about executive compensation, shareholder proposals, and more. Notably,…