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Written by chobeat on 2025-02-04 at 20:10

‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases

https://www.404media.co/forbidden-words-github-reveals-how-software-engineers-are-purging-federal-databases/

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Written by chobeat on 2025-02-03 at 11:15

Hacked pipelines defaced Microsoft's WSL repository with pro-Palestine messages

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr

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Written by chobeat on 2025-01-30 at 16:15

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Written by chobeat on 2025-01-25 at 19:25

Google reportedly worked directly with Israel’s military on AI tools

Employees escalated the IDF’s requests for AI tools.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349582/google-israel-defense-forces-idf-contract-gaza

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Written by chobeat on 2025-01-07 at 12:10

Effective obfuscation

Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses.

https://www.citationneeded.news/effective-obfuscation/

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Written by chobeat on 2025-01-07 at 12:05

ZeniMax Online Studios Workers Form Latest Video Game Union with Communications Workers of America

ZeniMax Online Studios is a video game production company known for the popular multiplayer game, Elder Scrolls Online.

https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/zenimax-online-studios-workers-form-latest-video-game-union-communications-workers?link_id=0&can_id=182e66e2c689b4362622e2d94c6cf1e1&source=email-cwa-files-ulp-against-sony-forbes-union-strike&email_referrer=email_2566607&email_subject=zos-workers-form-union-google-workers-ratify-1st-contract-_

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Written by chobeat on 2024-12-13 at 09:04

You often hear me speak about Notion for its merits. In this video I shot with Giulio Quarta for the Commons Economy Roadmap, I focus instead on its limits and on how a real alternative compatible with a post-capitalist economy, might look like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXiQlLHuK7g

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Written by chobeat on 2024-12-11 at 22:31

New York Times and Tech Guild Reach Deal

The union, which represents some 600 tech workers at the publication, had been negotiating for a contract for more than two years. It will vote on ratifying the deal next week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/business/media/new-york-times-tech-guild-deal.html

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Written by chobeat on 2024-12-10 at 15:16

How Big Tech labor organizers aim to unite for Trump 2.0

Supercharged during the first Trump administration, tech worker activism faces new challenges and motivations as the 47th President heads to Washington.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how-big-tech-labor-organizers-aim-to-unite-for-trump-2-0

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Written by chobeat on 2024-12-09 at 22:45

Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker

The suspect, arrested today, worked as a data engineer and contributed, among other things, to Civilization 6

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9nxee2r0do

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Written by chobeat on 2024-12-02 at 06:39

Wanna organize a chapter of Tech Workers Coalition in your city?

Come to this event to find out what it takes!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudeGgrTIvGNHCBoyVAw54u1cQgsvfnqRy#/registration

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Written by chobeat on 2024-11-22 at 19:52

Glovo fined five million euros by the Italian DPA for tracking rider's position outside of work and using profiling to assign shifts

Reverse engineering of the mobile app allowed to identify suspicious data collection and to trigger an investigation

https://reversing.works/posts/2024/11/press-release-reversing.works-investigation-exposes-glovos-data-privacy-violations-marking-a-milestone-for-worker-rights-and-technology-accountability/

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Written by chobeat on 2024-11-19 at 09:17

India slaps Meta with five-year info-sharing ban

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/19/india_whatsapp_data_sharing_sanctions/

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Written by chobeat on 2024-11-15 at 11:17

Networked Cooperative Ecosystems

New Labour Configurations & Opportunities for Mutualism.

Since 2022, V6A Labs has conducted applied research and development in partnership with communities and organizations to facilitate ecosystem-driven projects and advance concepts of the digital/physical commons. The following is the first in a series of accompanying research that explores the changing nature of work and supporting infrastructure needed for new labour configurations to take shape.

https://paragraph.xyz/@v6a/networked-ecosystems-2

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Written by chobeat on 2024-11-14 at 20:17

Bethesda Workers Go On Strike Against Microsoft

After failing to reach a new deal with Microsoft, Bethesda's QA workers are staging a brief strike and demanding better terms.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bethesda-workers-go-on-strike-against-microsoft/1100-6527751/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

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Written by chobeat on 2024-11-11 at 21:23

Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

Clue vows to safeguard users following the 2024 election amid concerns anti-abortion state laws could allow phone searches for menstrual data.

https://www.newsweek.com/period-tracking-app-refuses-disclose-data-american-authorities-1982841

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Written by chobeat on 2024-11-07 at 05:17

Organize the Tech Industry's Workforce Now

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/response-to-the-2024-u-s-general-election-results

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Written by chobeat on 2024-11-05 at 22:17

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

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Written by chobeat on 2024-10-29 at 16:02

Most current AI tech is 90 percent marketing, says Linus Torvalds

https://www.techspot.com/news/105336-most-current-ai-tech-90-percent-marketing-linus.html

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Written by chobeat on 2024-10-28 at 14:02

Dozens under investigation in Italy amid scandal over hacked government databases and illegal dossiers

https://therecord.media/italy-arrests-illegal-dossiers-private-intelligence

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