Hashtag Trending Dec. 1 – Proposal to use lethal robots passed, DoorDash lays off 1250 employees, Senator accuses Apple of supporting China’s speech suppression
San Francisco police can now use potentially lethal robots, DoorDash lays off 1250 employees and Missouri Senator accuses Apple of supporting China’s speech suppression policies. That’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag…
South Dakota Bans Government Employees From Using TikTok. The Countless Other Apps And Services That Hoover Up And Sell Sensitive Data Are Fine, Though
from the privateness-theater dept South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem set on a little bit of a performance this week by saying that the condition would be banning governing administration employees from putting in TikTok on their telephones. The effort and…
Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots
from the but-of-training course dept Rolling Stone has a enjoyment write-up quoting various former Twitter employees highlighting that polls are the the very least secure software on the system, and are routinely open up to manipulation by bots: “Polls…
Spies among us: How bosses remotely monitor work-from-home employees
Since the pandemic accelerated remote work, there’s been an uptick in the use of electronic monitoring tools to track employees’ performance and productivity, experts say. Some workers’ rights groups have called it invasive with employees often not…
Tech companies racing to get their employees out of Russia
“We moved some of our employees as a primary objective” after the invasion, he recounted, “and then I helped coordinate flights for employees at several tens of other companies.” Initially, he chartered flights to Armenia; by this past weekend, he was…
Better.com employees got severance checks before layoffs
TechCrunch reported Tuesday that a portion of the 3,000 or so Better.com employees who were set to be laid off this week received pay slips for their severance checks — before they were told they were going to be laid off. The company uses the Workday…
Apple @ Work: Here’s how an annual Mac upgrade program benefits Apple, enterprises, and employees
Apple @ Work is brought to you by Mosyle, the leader in modern mobile device management (MDM) and security for Apple enterprise and education customers. Over 28,000 organizations leverage Mosyle solutions to automate the deployment, management and…
5 mistakes to avoid if you have to lay off employees remotely
How you let employees go matters for your company’s reputation.Consider Better.com’s CEO, who just fired roughly 900 employees in a very brief Zoom call and quickly faced backlash.No one will ever react positively to hearing they are…
Google Employees May Be Violating Users’ Privacy
Multiple allegations on social media suggest that Google’s Pixel smartphones being sent to a repair center in Texas are sometimes being tampered with. Google’s Pixel smartphones being sent in for repairs are allegedly being broken into by…
BuzzFeed News employees walk off the job to protest contract talks
BuzzFeed News employees plan to walk off the job Thursday to protest what they say is the company’s failure to agree to a fair labor contract, creating turmoil at the startup days before it goes public. The NewsGuild of New York, which represents the…