Amazon union workers and the Teamsters have inked a deal ( www.theverge.com )
From the article: Amazon Labor Union workers have joined forces with one of biggest unions in the US, hoping to get Amazon to the bargaining table.
Wells Fargo workers using ‘mouse movers’ are getting caught and fired - The Verge ( www.theverge.com )
Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/17285399...
Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI ( www.theverge.com )
AI will soon be grading AI submitted papers, certainly nothing can go wrong here
An earthquake just rocked NYC, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas ( www.theverge.com )
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse ( www.theverge.com )
Biden’s Threads posts can show up in Mastodon clients.
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time ( www.theverge.com )
Threads’ fediverse plans are coming together.
Activision/Blizzard QA workers form the largest US video game union yet ( www.theverge.com )
Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED ( www.theverge.com )
The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction ( www.theverge.com )
Mailchimp cancels podcast after refusing to work with union producers ( www.theverge.com )
The email marketing company has sponsored top podcasts like Serial.
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration ( www.theverge.com )
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Threads that the platform is beginning to test making Threads posts available on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-supporting services. Zuckerberg wrote that making Threads work with the interoperable standard “will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach...
Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files - The Verge ( www.theverge.com )
I love my homelab
Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files - The Verge ( www.theverge.com )
“Move to the cloud” they said
Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple? ( www.theverge.com )
FOSS/self hosted preferred, but open to anything!
Firefox tests a built-in checker for fake reviews ( www.theverge.com )
Based on technology from Fakespot.
Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery delivery in 2024 ( www.theverge.com )
Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps and healthcare benefits as payment for grocery delivery orders, the company announced Wednesday. It also plans to add a new AI assistant that it says will help grocery customers get better deals....
Dark Brandon haunts the Fox News website on GOP debate day ( www.theverge.com )
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0f75b656-aa1a-4fed-ba35-cc7c0afebc76.webp
[SCOTUS] The Biden administration urges the Supreme Court to take up content moderation cases ( www.theverge.com )
The Biden administration has requested the US Supreme Court review Florida and Texas laws restricting how social media companies like Facebook moderate the content users post on their platforms....
President Joe Biden wanted Gigi Sohn to fix America’s internet — what went wrong? [Analysis] ( www.theverge.com )
“Dark money” and the never-ending election cycle kept a qualified consumer advocate out of the Federal Communications Commission.
BBC launches an “experimental” Mastodon server ( www.theverge.com )
The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on the Twitter alternative. You can access the server at social.bbc, which encompasses posts from a handful of BBC accounts, including BBC Radio 4, BBC Taster, BBC Research & Development, and a...
News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to build a new agency to police Big Tech ( www.theverge.com )
The bill, sponsored by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), would create a new agency called the Digital Consumer Protection Commission that would be empowered to go after giant tech firms for a slew of anti-competitive behaviors and failing to protect consumer privacy.
Twitter alternatives for the Musk-averse ( www.theverge.com )
Twitter isn’t the only social network around — here are some others.
Threads is rolling out its Following feed ( www.theverge.com )
Now you can scroll through posts from only people you follow.