Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: More than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder caused by exposure to graphic social media content including murders, suicides, child sexual… Continue reading More Than 140 Kenya Facebook Moderators Diagnosed With Severe PTSD
If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with buttons is one that’s covered in LEDs — so …read more Continue reading Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) warns that while most adults recognize the importance of wiping personal data from old devices, nearly 30% don’t know how, and a significant number of young people either don’t care or find it too cumber… Continue reading One Third of Adults Can’t Delete Device Data
El Salvador secured a $1.4 billion loan deal with the IMF after agreeing to scale back its bitcoin policies, making cryptocurrency acceptance voluntary for businesses and limiting public sector involvement. The deal aims to stabilize the country’s econ… Continue reading El Salvador Strikes $1.4 Billion IMF Deal After Scaling Back Bitcoin Policies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In a landmark ruling, the Court of Milan has ordered (PDF) Cloudflare to block pirate streaming services that offer Serie A football matches. The court found that Cloudflare’s services are instrume… Continue reading Cloudflare Must Block ‘Piracy Shield’ Domains and IP Addresses Across Its Service
The UK Post Office has appointed Paul Anastassi as interim CTO amid efforts to replace its controversial Horizon IT system, which led to hundreds of wrongful convictions of subpostmasters due to software errors since 1999.
The appointment, the news o… Continue reading Post Office Creates CTO Role To Support ‘Extensive and Complex’ Plans
We all know and love the humble seven-segment display, right? And if you want to make characters as well as numbers, you can do an okay job with sixteen segments …read more Continue reading A Twenty-Segment Display, Artistically
Mass game shutdowns and service terminations marked 2024 as a pivotal year for digital ownership concerns in the gaming industry. PC Gamer adds: The arguments have been around forever, but they’ve been made concrete by the simple fact that, over the la… Continue reading ‘2024 Was the Year Gamers Really Started Pushing Back On the Erosion of Game Ownership’
An anonymous reader shares a report: Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware and software for robots such as Figure and Physical Intelligence and reboo… Continue reading OpenAI Has Discussed Making a Humanoid Robot, Report Says
The video game industry faced unprecedented turmoil in 2024, with layoffs reaching record levels and exceeding 2023’s total of 10,000 jobs lost by 40%. Major studios including Microsoft’s Arkane Austin and Sony’s Firewalk were shuttered, while indie de… Continue reading ‘2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry’