Author: Zach_Wilson
Fired Tesla manager says Full Self-Driving cars were ‘rolling hazards’
A new lawsuit accuses Tesla of overextending the safety operators overseeing its robotaxis. Source
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Quote of the day by Bill Gates: ‘There’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it” — downplaying Apple’s foray into tablets
For a long period during the early 21st century, Apple was the envy of the technology industry – pumping out a series of excellent products and seemingly unable to put a foot wrong. When the iPad came along, it had many detractors, chief among them the former CEO of its…
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Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who’ve been leaking her songs and videos for years
Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the currently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and leaked private content. It aims to “uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individuals,” referred to as “John Doe 1 and John Does 2 through…
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AI company employees petition US government for regulation
A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter. Source
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eBay’s bizarre cyberstalking saga ends with a $56 million settlement
eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga that revealed how eBay’s former executives sent live insects,…
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The union drive at the Wikimedia Foundation is expanding
In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intentions to form a union. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit have declined to voluntarily recognize their union. “While the Wikimedia Foundation touts…
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