80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ (www.cnbc.com)
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’::As some business leaders accept hybrid work as a permanent reality, others are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home.
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail (arstechnica.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail::Judge also denied SBF's request to delay jail time.
Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 (sopuli.xyz)
How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?...
YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer (www.androidpolice.com)
New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times (www.carscoops.com)
New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times::Six officers who were injured in the crash are suing Tesla despite the fact that the driver was allegedly impaired
Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge (reddthat.com)
When you visit the Google's chatbot bard's website in Microsoft Bing. A New Button pops up besides the search bar which lets you compare bard results with Bing chat's....
Google's Bard Urges Google to Drop Web Environment Integrity (archive.is)
I asked Google Bard whether it thought Web Environment Integrity was a good or bad idea. Surprisingly, not only did it respond that it was a bad idea, it even went on to urge Google to drop the proposal.
Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.
Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan (unseen-japan.com)
Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.
Fstoppers on YouTube: Printer Ink, It's a SCAM (www.youtube.com)
In this video, a Canon print cartridge is opened up and revealed not to contain the meagre 11.9 ml (0.4 fl oz) of ink it is advertised. The proposed solution is to buy a printer designed to be manually refilled with bottles of ink (such as the featured Epson EcoTank ET-2850), though it has only been tested briefly.
The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....
Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade. (apnews.com)
Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade.::A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.
Amazon employees are outraged by a new warning about individual office attendance: 'Is this supposed to scare people?' (archive.ph)
Amazon employees are outraged by a new warning about individual office attendance: 'Is this supposed to scare people?'::undefined
Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration (www.businessinsider.com)
Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration::Some tech workers questioned whether UPS drivers deserved high pay — others jumped in to note the importance of the jobs and harsh working conditions.
Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought... (www.youtube.com)
This video as a text article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/
The famously overworked visual effects workers behind the Marvel movies just voted to join a union (fortune.com)
The famously overworked visual effects workers behind the Marvel movies just voted to join a union::Bob Iger’s labor headaches might have just gotten a bit worse.
Marvel's visual effects workers vote to unionize (www.engadget.com)
Marvel's visual effects workers vote to unionize::Marvel's visual effects employees have voted in favor of joining a union in their fight for better pay, overtime compensation, more benefits and better treatment..
Banks hit with $549 million in fines for use of Signal, WhatsApp to evade regulators’ reach (www.cnbc.com)
Banks hit with $549 million in fines for use of Signal, WhatsApp to evade regulators’ reach::Wells Fargo, a relatively small player on Wall Street, racked up the most fines Tuesday, with a total of $200 million in penalties.
The famously overworked visual effects workers behind the Marvel movies just voted to join a union (fortune.com)
Zoom Changes TOS to Say It Won't Train AI on Your Calls 'Without Your Consent' After Backlash (www.vice.com)
Zoom Changes TOS to Say It Won't Train AI on Your Calls 'Without Your Consent' After Backlash::Zoom added a line to its terms of use on Monday, after concerns that the company was using calls to train artificial intelligence algorithms went viral.
Saudi Arabia mandates all electronic devices to use USB-C charging ports from 2025 (www.gsmarena.com)
Amazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing (www.vice.com)
Amazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing::Amazon spent $14.2 million total on anti-union consulting in 2022, filings with the Department of Labor show.
Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads (www.technologyreview.com)
Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads::More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites —and the problem is growing fast.