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FCC: Net Neutrality is a ‘Thing’ Again ¦ Meta Shutters Big UK Site
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This week: Network neutrality is back on the FCC’s agenda, and unused London office gets Zucked. (more…)
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Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
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This week: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work. (more…)
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Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
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This week: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes a new Secure Boot for Linux. (more…)
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‘The OG App’ Devs’ Facebook Ban | WFH Vs. NYC Real Estate | Calif. Pay Law is GO
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This week: A third-party Instagram app causes ructions, remote work causes office slump, and more on Cali’s salary transparency law. (more…)
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Wipro Fires 2-Job Staff | Python Bug from 2007 | Lite Layoffs
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This week: Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting at competitors, Python has a nasty 15-year-old bug, and companies are finding new ways to lay people off without calling it a “layoff.” (more…)
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How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
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This week: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft. (more…)
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Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
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This week: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive. (more…)
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3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
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This week, a remote/hybrid work special: Bribes to relocate you, Fridays are forgotten, and big tech firms stop building offices. (more…)
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Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
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This week: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer. (more…)