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Apple offers Indonesia US$10M sweetener to reverse its iPhone ban

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @06:49AM
from the scmp.com dept.

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3285194/apple-offers-indonesia-us10-million-sweetener-reverse-its-iphone-ban

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Billionaires emit more CO₂ in 90 minutes than most people do in a lifetime

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Monday November 04, 2024 @01:12AM
from the oxfam.org dept.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-emit-more-carbon-pollution-90-minutes-average-person-does-lifetime

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Over 500 Amazon workers decry "non-data-driven" logic for 5-day RTO policy

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Friday November 01, 2024 @11:58AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/over-500-amazon-workers-decry-non-data-driven-logic-for-5-day-rto-policy/

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Jeff Bezos "Didn't know" Blue Origin met with Trump as he tries to calm WP storm

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @03:56AM
from the qz.com dept.

https://qz.com/bezos-trump-blue-origin-washington-post-endorsement-1851683668

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Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @02:45AM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-chipmakers-new-7nm-cpus-reportedly-outperform-intels-raptor-lake-loongson-adopts-tock-tock-tick-strategy-to-close-the-gap-with-intel

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List of major companies requiring employees to return to the office

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @03:18PM
from the msn.com dept.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-list-of-major-companies-requiring-employees-to-return-to-the-office-from-starbucks-to-amazon/ar-AA1qMYOQ

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MoneyGram replaces CEO weeks after customer data breach

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:09PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/29/moneygram-replaces-ceo-weeks-after-massive-customer-data-breach/

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Re:MoneyGram replaces CEO weeks after customer data breach on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:09PM (#41985727)

I'd like to think this has something to do with the "consequences of my actions", but pretty sure there's hidden factors going on behind the scenes, and this might have been the icing on the top to get the CEO fired.

Linus Torvalds reckons AI is '90% marketing and 10% reality'

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:24AM
from the tomshardware.com dept.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/linus-torvalds-reckons-ai-is-90-percent-marketing-and-10-percent-reality

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Headlamp tech that doesn't blind oncoming drivers–where is it?

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Monday October 28, 2024 @06:35AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/headlamp-tech-that-doesnt-blind-oncoming-drivers-where-is-it/

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OpenAI disbands another team focused on advanced AGI safety readiness

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:44AM
from the the-decoder.com dept.

https://the-decoder.com/openai-disbands-another-team-focused-on-advanced-agi-safety-readiness/

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Linus Torvalds is "fed up" with making kernel changes to address faulty hardware

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:06AM
from the techspot.com dept.

https://www.techspot.com/news/105268-linus-torvalds-fed-up-making-kernel-changes-address.html

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Student tracking jets of Zuck, Musk, and Swift says Threads account suspended

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @12:49PM
from the fortune.com dept.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/jack-sweeney-celebrity-jet-tracker-meta-threads-accounts-suspended-mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-taylor-switft/

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Re:Student tracking jets of Zuck, Musk, and Swift says Threads account... on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @12:49PM (#41926836)

That title was complicated to get in the character limit...

Online dating code will require Tinder, Hinge to act on dangerous users

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @07:30AM
from the abc.net.au dept.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/online-dating-industry-code-apps-tinder-hinge-dangerous-users/104415444

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Re:Royal Caribbean fined $470k for environmental regulation violations on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:28AM (#41870011)

I'm pretty tired of companies getting less than a slap on the wrist and just getting away with... all this.

Royal Caribbean fined $470k for environmental regulation violations

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:23AM
from the houstonpublicmedia.org dept.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/10/15/502827/royal-caribbean-fined-470000-for-environmental-regulation-violations-at-galveston-terminal/

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Robot Vacuums Hacked to Shout Slurs at Their Owners

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:12PM
from the vice.com dept.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ecovacs-robot-vacuums-hacked-slurs/

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Big Oil Must Pay for Storm Damage

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Friday October 11, 2024 @07:45AM
from the newsweek.com dept.

https://www.newsweek.com/miltons-landing-big-oil-must-pay-massive-storm-damage-opinion-1966615

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Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked (10 Oct 2024)

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:23AM
from the pluralistic.net dept.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/10/software-based-car/

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Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not free

Posted by sunkcostisalie on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:07AM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/free_starlink_hurricane_helene/

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Re:Output (not =) Outcome on Thursday August 29, 2024 @02:23PM (#41393816)

This is absolutely true for engineering teams. While people overuse Goodhart law but the fault is in the foundation.

The Goodhart Law doesn’t really apply in sales or operations because output there is directly proportional to the business outcome.