Collaborate Disseminate
MarketWatch looks at “surveillance wages,” pay rates “based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”
According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at lab… Continue reading Are Employers Using Your Data To Figure Out the Lowest Salary You’ll Accept?
Extension cords are fine for smaller devices, but some appliances can be dangerous to use with them, particularly in cold weather. Continue reading Don’t plug these 7 common household gadgets into an extension cord – according to an electrician
Getting the best Wi-Fi performance requires strategic antenna positioning, proper router placement, and a bit of trial and error. Continue reading Adjusting my router’s antenna fixed my Wi-Fi problems – here’s the best way to position it
Anthropic’s making a big and sudden change — and connecting its Claude AI to third-party agentic tools “is about to get a lot more expensive,” writes the Verge:
Beginning April 4th at 3PM ET, users will “no longer be able to use your Claude sub… Continue reading Anthropic Announces Claude Subscribers Must Now Pay Extra to Use OpenClaw
“The April 1st timing should have been your first clue,” writes Gadget Review. TechSpot’s false story was just an April Fool’s prank — although Gadget Review thinks it’s still funny how “something about this particular piece of satire felt uncomf… Continue reading No, AMD Is Not Buying Intel
Amazon “must negotiate with a labor union representing some 5,000 workers at a company warehouse on Staten Island,” reports Reuters, citing a ruling Wednesday from America’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
The union formed in 2022, according t… Continue reading Amazon Must Negotiate With First Warehouse Workers Union, US Labor Board Rules
For once, we can avoid debating in the comments what constitutes a “cyberdeck”, because [LCLDIY] does not refer to his cyberpunk masterpiece as such — he calls it a laptop. …read more Continue reading Open Graphics Card Powers Cyberpunk “Laptop”
Long-time GNOME/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice contributor
Michael Meeks is now general manager of Collabora Productivity. And earlier this month he complained when LibreOffice decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project, as reported by Neowin, wh… Continue reading The Document Foundation Removes Dozens of Collabora Developers
North Korean group UNC1069 targets Node.js maintainers using fake LinkedIn and Slack profiles to spread malware and compromise open source packages. Continue reading UNC1069 Targets Node.js Maintainers via Fake LinkedIn, Slack Profiles
Edith Lin reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog and police are investigating a large-scale data leak involving over 56,000 patients served by the Hospital Authority, which reported the unauthorised retrieval of a variety of information. The authority o… Continue reading Hong Kong Hospital Authority apologises for data breach involving 56,000 patients