Month: April 2023
Google is slashing its employee benefits – even laptops and staplers
Google is cutting back numerous employee benefits as it seeks to streamline its spend amid the continuing economic pressures. Earlier this year, the company announced the mass layoff of around 12,000 workers, accounting for 6% of its workforce, and has since been tweaking other operations in a bid to save…
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Can Burning Man Pull Out of Its Climate Death Spiral?
Excessive heat, ever fiercer storms, and a reliance on fossil fuels are becoming an existential crisis for the yearly festival in the Nevada desert. Source
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Elon Musk’s obsession with blue checks is a verified problem
“Elon [Musk]’s Twitter deal certainly must also rank as the most time-adjusted value-destructive leveraged buyout of all time,” says William Cohan, writing for Puck. While Musk has estimated Twitter’s value as $20 billion in a March 31st email to employees — meaning its value dropped by more than half after the…
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The Morning After: Twitter keeps legacy verified blue ticks around, for now
Last week, Twitter said it would start winding down the legacy verified program on April 1st, but over the weekend, that didn't happen, because (according to The Washington Post) unverifying users is a painstaking manual process. Meanwhile, another report indicated around 10,000 of the top-followed sites would retain their legacy…
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Remote workers are still causing a whole host of cybersecurity risks
Despite being the “new normal” for almost three years now, remote and hybrid working (opens in new tab) is still a major cybersecurity risk for organizations of all shapes and sizes, new research has said. A report from Lookout surveying 3,000 remote and hybrid workers from enterprises in the US,…
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Microsoft’s next Surface Dock might drop the proprietary connector for USB-C
A new leak suggests the next Surface Dock might use Thunderbolt 4 over USB-C to connect to Microsoft’s laptop lineup, rather than the company’s proprietary Surface connector. Windows Central reports that the device is codenamed Bergamo, and says pictures of it have leaked via this eBay listing. While other accessory…
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