Company must read out public notice to employees at Staten Island warehouse, which won vote to unionize in April Amazon will be forced to read out a public notice this week to all employees at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, where workers won the first Amazon union election, stating it will “cease and …
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Teachers and parents can’t detect this new form of plagiarism. Tech companies could step in – if they had the will to do so Parents and teachers across the world are rejoicing as students have returned to classrooms. But unbeknownst to them, an unexpected insidious academic threat is on the scene: a revolution in artificial …
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The app Visible is also geared towards people living with conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome When Harry Leeming developed symptoms of long Covid, he found the lack of understanding of the condition alarming. “They became so severe that I went to A&E and I was turned away, being told that I had anxiety or …
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly €1bn by EU since September 2021 Facebook’s owner has been fined €265m (£230m) by the Irish data watchdog after a breach that resulted in the details of more than 500 million users being published online. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Meta had infringed two articles …
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BlockFi announces Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in US as fall of FTX continues to reverberate across industry The crypto lender BlockFi has become the sector’s latest big operator to declare bankruptcy, as the fallout of the collapse of offshore cryptocurrency exchange FTX continues to spread. BlockFi, which operates in a similar fashion to a conventional …
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Activity indicates ‘first major failure’ to stop government interference under ownership of Elon Musk Twitter has been flooded with nuisance posts designed to obscure news of the coronavirus lockdown protests in China, in an apparent state-directed attempt to suppress footage of the demonstrations. Chinese bot accounts – not operated by humans – are being used …
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European parliament is investigating Pegasus, a powerful surveillance tool used by governments around the world Victims of spyware and a group of security experts have privately warned that a European parliament investigatory committee risks being thrown off course by an alleged “disinformation campaign”. The warning, contained in a letter to MEPs signed by the victims, …
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Bitcoin and ethereum prices have plummeted, but it is unlikely the US will ban cryptocurrencies soon The epic collapse of wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32bn (£27bn) crypto empire, FTX, looks set to go down as one of the great financial debacles of all time. With a storyline full of celebrities, politicians, sex and drugs, the future …
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Rapid smart TV upgrade with every streaming service available and a quality ad-free home screen Apple’s latest TV streaming box is faster, smaller, more efficient and cheaper than its predecessors, making it one of the best and most reliable smart TV experiences you can get. The third-generation Apple TV 4K costs from £149 ($129/A$219). While …
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FTX collapse | Replica of William the Conqueror’s ship | A seat for the privileged | Giant otters | Matt Hancock’s ‘junglewashing’ Moya Lothian-McLean (Opinion, 25 November) appears to signal the death of “effective altruism” (EA) on the basis of the fall from grace of one of its most famous proponents, Sam Bankman-Fried. Just as …
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