Up to 28,000 people at tech giant in South Korea will strike for one day on 7 June after negotiations over wages stall A major union representing tens of thousands of people at the South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that workers will go on strike for the first time, potentially threatening …
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Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment Mariana Mazzucato is professor of economics at UCL, and director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t …
The action comes after nearly 200 Meta employees signed an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg demanding an end to alleged censorship As Meta kicks off its annual shareholder meeting Wednesday, human rights groups have coordinated protests calling the company to put an end to what they call systemic censorship of pro-Palestine content, both on the …
Security incident at pension scheme being taken ‘extremely seriously’, but broadcaster says there is no evidence of a ransomware attack The BBC has launched an investigation after the details of more than 25,000 current and former employees were exposed in a data breach. The corporation’s pension scheme wrote to members on Wednesday to say their …
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A Hamilton-esque performance extolling the virtues of design software was exactly the wrong kind of corny The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping. That’s what happened …
Ellen Roome says firms should be required to hand over data in case it can help parents understand why their child died A woman whose 14-year-old son killed himself is calling for parents to be given the legal right to access their child’s social media accounts to help understand why they died. Ellen Roome has …
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Xbox, PlayStation 4/5, PC, Nintendo Switch; Moonloop Games/FirestokePossess ladybirds and rollercoasters in Moonloop Games’ quirky, inventive take on the afterlife Hauntii is a twin-stick shooter in the same way Super Mario Bros: Wonder is a game about jumping. This imaginative, breathtakingly beautiful debut from Moonloop Games about a ghost searching for understanding in the afterlife …
Ryan Salame is first of Sam Bankman-Fried’s lieutenants to get jail time for his role in 2022 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for …
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Javier Milei to hold private talks with Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman as Argentina faces worst economic crisis in decades Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, is set to meet with the leaders of some of the world’s largest tech companies in Silicon Valley this week. The far-right libertarian leader will hold private talks with Sundar Pichai …
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US tech startup says committee will advise on ‘critical safety and security decisions’ OpenAI says it is setting up a safety and security committee and has begun training a new AI model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot. The San Francisco startup said in a blogpost on Tuesday that the committee …
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