Fighting pedophilia at the expense of our privacy: The EU rule that could break the internet (english.elpais.com)
Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor (www.wired.com)
Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts (arstechnica.com)
‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma (www.euronews.com)
‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma::More than 20% of the staff Meta hired to check the violent content of Facebook and Instagram are on sick leave due to psychological trauma.
Reddit is taking control of large subreddits that are still protesting its API changes (mashable.com)
Reddit is taking control of large subreddits that are still protesting its API changes::undefined
Sweden’s Tesla blockade is spreading — Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix chargi... (www.wired.co.uk)
Sweden’s Tesla blockade is spreading — Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix chargi…::Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean...
Kevin Mitnick has died at age 59 (www.securityweek.com)
Kevin Mitnick - the world’s first famous “hacker” - has died at age 59 after succumbing to pancreatic cancer....
Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm (www.theverge.com)
Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life offtheline
“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?
Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides (www.wired.com)
NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer (www.nysenate.gov)
NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer::Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license...
Elon Musk takes over @x Twitter account without paying owner (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact (theconversation.com)
Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California’s new climate laws – that will have a global impact::California is the world’s fifth-largest economy. Laws tested there often spread across the U.S. and around the world.
Ford lays off 600 workers at plant targeted by UAW strike (www.barrons.com)
Ford lays off 600 workers at plant targeted by UAW strike::Ford is laying off workers while the UAW is striking against Ford, GM, and Stellantis. This is getting complicated.
The famously overworked visual effects workers behind the Marvel movies just voted to join a union (fortune.com)
TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg' (www.businessinsider.com)
TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it’s the ‘tip of the iceberg’::As AI spreads, it brings new challenges for influencers like MrBeast and platforms like TikTok aiming to police unauthorized advertising.
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
A peaceful protest against Web Environment Integrity (github.com)
I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it....
California Just Became the Third State to Pass Electronics Right to Repair (www.ifixit.com)
California Just Became the Third State to Pass Electronics Right to Repair::Right to Repair just won in Big Tech’s backyard: California’s Right to Repair Act, Senate Bill 244, has passed the state legislature on a 50–0 vote.
X “unfit” for banking because of complicity in Saudi spying, lawyers argue (arstechnica.com)
X “unfit” for banking because of complicity in Saudi spying, lawyers argue::Read the letter urging regulators to end Musk’s dream of turning X into a bank.
A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly (www.wired.com)
Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill (techcrunch.com)
Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill::Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, the organization that maintains the Signal messaging app, spoke about the U.K.'s controversial new privacy bill at TC Disrupt 2023.
Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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