Collaborate Disseminate
Ubisoft announced Wednesday it will close its studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia — two weeks after 74% of its staff voted to unionize.
This means laying off the 71 people at the studio, reports the gaming news site Aftermath:
[Communications Work… Continue reading Ubisoft Closes Game Studio Where Workers Voted to Unionize Two Weeks Ago
An anonymous reader shared this report from It’s FOSS:
Jenny Guanni Qu, a researcher at [VC fund] Pebblebed, analyzed 125,183 bugs from 20 years of Linux kernel development history (on Git). The findings show that the average bug takes 2.1 years to fi… Continue reading How Long Does It Take to Fix Linux Kernel Bugs?
Bloomberg reports on Amazon listings “automatically generated by an experimental AI tool” for stores that don’t sell on Amazon.
Bloomberg notes that the listings “didn’t always correspond to the correct product”, leaving the stores to handle the comp… Continue reading Amazon’s AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:
Finland-based IXI Eyewear has raised more than $40 million from investors, including Amazon, to build glasses with adaptive lenses that could dynamically autofocus based on where the person wearing th… Continue reading Finnish Startup IXI Plans New Autofocusing Eyeglasses
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang “said one of his biggest takeaways from 2025 was ‘the battle of narratives’ over the future of AI development between those who see doom on the horizon and the optimists,” reports Business Insider.
Huang did acknowledge that… Continue reading Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says AI Doomerism Has ‘Done a Lot of Damage’
“The clock is ticking” on the Hubble Space Telescope,
writes the space news site Daily Galaxy, citing estimates from the unofficial “Hubble Reentry Tracker” site (which uses orbital data from the site space-track.org, created by tech integrator SAIC):… Continue reading How Many Years Left Until the Hubble Space Telescope Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere?
Alphabet-owned Wing “is expanding its drone delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores across the U.S.,” reports Axios:
[T]he future is already here if you live in Dallas — where some Walmart customers order delivery by Wing three time… Continue reading Walmart Announces Drone Delivery, Integration with Google’s AI Chatbot Gemini
Gentoo Linux posted its 2025 project retrospective this week. Some interesting details:
Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirro… Continue reading Gentoo Linux Plans Migration from GitHub Over ‘Attempts to Force Copilot Usage for Our Repositories’
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:
If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you’re not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the “sen… Continue reading Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach
“China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation,” writes CleanTechnica, “and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough.”
The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a… Continue reading China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation