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The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)

Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on...

Reddit Taken To SF Court for Firing Worker With Anxiety: Lawsuit (sfstandard.com)

Reddit Taken To SF Court for Firing Worker With Anxiety: Lawsuit::A former Reddit staffer was fired for “poor performance” after taking three months of sick leave, a lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleges.

Tesla knew Autopilot caused death, but didn't fix it (www.theregister.com)

Tesla knew Autopilot caused death, but didn’t fix it::Software’s alleged inability to handle cross traffic central to court battle after two road deaths

Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix (arstechnica.com)

Marvel Studios' VFX Staff Unanimously Votes to Unionize (gizmodo.com)

ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfone, Updated (www.androidauthority.com)

Update from Asus...

Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 (www.notebookcheck.net)

FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers (arstechnica.com)

Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links (torrentfreak.com)

Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links::undefined

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns remote workers: 'It's probably not going to work out for you' (nypost.com)

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’::Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who defy his edict to return to the office three days a week that “it’s probably not going to work out for you.”

Scrollbars are becoming a problem (artemis.sh)

Too narrow, hidden, minimal feedback…

Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say - Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites (www.eff.org)

Summary...

AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices (www.scientificamerican.com)

After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)

A.I.’s un-learning problem: Researchers say it’s virtually impossible to make an A.I. model ‘forget’ the things it learns from private user data (finance.yahoo.com)

I’m rather curious to see how the EU’s privacy laws are going to handle this....

Unity Bosses Sold Stock Ahead Of Scummy Dev Fees Announcement (kotaku.com)

Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats (chromeunboxed.com)

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Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters (www.businessinsider.com)

Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters::Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are using microchips to verify the authenticity of their products and thwart scammers.

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