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 Trending. It’s Thursday December 1st and I’m your host, Samira Balsara. The […]
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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 hard work, according to the Governor, is intended to counter […]
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 are more susceptible to manipulation than just about just about anything […]
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 knowing they’re even being tracked or how the information’s being used. New York […]
“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 trying to charter them anywhere. Story continues below advertisement […]
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 payroll system, and the […]
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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 terminated — whether it’s due to balance sheet problems or their own performance. […]
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 unknown suspects in what is being described as a privacy nightmare. Pixel is […]
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 journalists, said they plan to stop […]