Amazon retaliated after employee walkout over the return-to-office policy, NLRB lawyers say ( www.theverge.com )
Paramount Plus just dropped its big Star Trek crossover episode early ( www.theverge.com )
If you’re a Paramount Plus subscriber, you can go watch Boimler of Lower Decks geek out over the cast of Strange New Worlds right now.
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever ( www.theverge.com )
“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no...
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.
Activision/Blizzard QA workers form the largest US video game union yet ( www.theverge.com )
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
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else ( www.theverge.com )
Article by The Verge, providing details about various subreddits and their mods getting threatened because they are labeled as NSFW
Reddit invites mods to “feedback” conversations with the admins ( www.theverge.com )
Maybe Reddit should’ve done that part first?
Wells Fargo workers using ‘mouse movers’ are getting caught and fired - The Verge ( www.theverge.com )
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.
What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing? ( www.theverge.com )
One of the weirder phenomena of the low interest rate era in tech was a tendency to see companies primarily as investments. The goal was not to have a functional business, but an exit, often via IPO or acquisition. I have begun to wonder if that explains what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been up to lately....
Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED ( www.theverge.com )
Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time ( www.theverge.com )
Reddit seems to be fully aware what users are likely to do in the current climate. Do they think people who aren’t angry will be louder than everyone else, do they have a plan for protests, or are they just letting the chips fall?
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...
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
Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now ( www.theverge.com )
The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall....
Twitter alternatives for the Musk-averse ( www.theverge.com )
Twitter isn’t the only social network around — here are some others.
Reddit’s r/Place is going about as well as expected ( www.theverge.com )
Sega workers form largest multi-department video game union in the US ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1444197...
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.
Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/17285399...
An earthquake just rocked NYC, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas ( www.theverge.com )
The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction ( www.theverge.com )
Threads is rolling out its Following feed ( www.theverge.com )
Now you can scroll through posts from only people you follow.