Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers from Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to unionise with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), becoming…
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The US has ended the long-standing “de minimis” duty-free import exemption that allowed international parcels below a value threshold to enter…
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers saw wildly incorrect cost forecasts and flood of budget alerts after a problematic account migration.…
EU To Boost Satellite Defences Against GPS Jamming, Defence Commissioner Says Summary The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit and strengthen detection capabilities to counter GPS…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and principal maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against favouring clever, brittle solutions over…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The production team behind the U.S. government climate portal climate.gov was dismissed earlier in the summer and, according to reporting…
Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, a largely unoccupied Malaysian megaproject, to attend Network School — an initiative founded by Balaji Srinivasan that teaches coding, product…
Futurism uncovered that OpenAI quietly confirmed it scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions flagged as planning harm to a specialised human-review pipeline. Human reviewers, trained on OpenAI’s usage policies, can…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionise — 3,500 Microsoft Workers Now Unionised Summary Over 450 developers from Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to unionise under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), making…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary An Ars Technica–reported lawsuit alleges Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling time-limited streaming licences as…
