Microsoft fires 4 employees after protest over Israel ties, break-in at Washington office
Microsoft has fired four employees in response to a protest over the company’s alleged ties to Israel, with two more dismissed after a break-in at President and Vice-Chair Brad Smith’s office at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state, Anadolu reports.“Two additional employees were terminated due to serious violations of established company policies and our code of conduct,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CBS News on Thursday. The company had announced the initial two firings in relation to the event on Wednesday.
Now totaling four, the firings followed a demonstration on Tuesday by seven current and former employees at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state. The activists, affiliated with the group No Azure for Apartheid, entered Smith’s office to demand that Microsoft end what they described as direct and indirect support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
The No Azure for Apartheid group identified the dismissed employees on Instagram as Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle, following their arrest by police on Tuesday.
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Fed announces new capital levels for large banks
The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Friday it had finalized new capital levels of the nation's largest banks following the June stress tests, although it added that Morgan Stanley is seeking reconsideration of its upcoming capital level.
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Microsoft fires 4 employees after protest over Israel ties, break-in at Washington office
Microsoft has fired four employees in response to a protest over the company’s alleged ties to Israel, with two more dismissed after a break-in at President and Vice-Chair Brad Smith’s office at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state, Anadolu reports.
“Two additional employees were terminated due to serious violations of established company policies and our code of conduct,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CBS News on Thursday. The company had announced the initial two firings in relation to the event on Wednesday.
Now totaling four, the firings followed a demonstration on Tuesday by seven current and former employees at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state. The activists, affiliated with the group No Azure for Apartheid, entered Smith’s office to demand that Microsoft end what they described as direct and indirect support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
The No Azure for Apartheid group identified the dismissed employees on Instagram as Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle, following their arrest by police on Tuesday.
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Telegram for Monkrus?
Came across 2 different telegrams for monkrus. His/her site here w16.monkrus.ws/ points to "real_monkrus" but the "m0nkrus" has an insane amount of people in it.
t.me/real_monkrus
t.me/m0nkrus
What is the "legit" way to find monkrus? Do they ever use PGP and how can I tell that a new site is also the same user? Both telegrams have different methods of donation, so it feels unlikely they're both real.
I won't blame these torrents, but I've recently gotten a state-actor-level type of malware and I'm double-checking everything that's been into my machine.
Варез от m0nkrus'a [Warez by m0nkrus]
В данном блоге представлен обновляемый список продуктов (сборок) от m0nkrus’a и даны ссылки на ресурсы, откуда их можно скачать.w16.monkrus.ws
I think it's safe to say the 50k person "t.me/m0nkrus" telegram is a very dedicated malware-for-hire type shit.
Torrents are very similar to M0nkrus' shit but they've implanted very sophisticated viruses in most of them.
Might want to include that in the megathread @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware
WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch
A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
If I recall correctly, at least for non-group chats they do use end-to-end encryption. That being said, obviously there are some practical limitations on the impact if you think that WhatsApp would actively try to be malicious, since they're also providing the client software and could hypothetically backdoor that.
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According to this, they do use end-to-end encryption for group chats too.
Maybe I'm recalling some other service or a default setting or something. Some service had non-e2e-encrypted-group messages for at least some period of time.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson claims Google is using "partisan" spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder
FTC claims Gmail filtering Republican emails threatens “American freedoms”
FTC chairman revives GOP claims previously rejected by judge and election agency.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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How a hacker helped win a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla
Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it
The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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Start looking for other coffee brands than Douwe Egberts
Douwe Egberts komt in Amerikaanse handen
Het moederbedrijf van Douwe Egberts, JDE Peets, wordt gekocht door drankenbedrijf Keurig Dr Pepper.NOS Nieuws
The new lawsuit said Li began working as an engineer for xAI last year, where he helped train and develop Grok. The company said Li took its trade secrets in July, shortly after accepting a job from OpenAI and selling $7 million in xAI stock.
I must say that it's going to be a bitch-and-a-half to retain core engineers if people are walking away at what amounts to $7 million/year in effective compensation.
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Looks like he only started working in industry in 2023, too (though was doing relevant work as a graduate student prior to that).
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36522273
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36522273
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36522273
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
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Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
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Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
: Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailingConnor Jones (The Register)
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You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
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Clickbait. Actual less sensational point is in the text:
Not every site needs JavaScript.
Exactly!
The one I build for work definitely does since we do things like manipulate 3D models. The majority of sites just present information and costs would go down significantly if they used a static site generator.
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Dexter: Resurrection Finale Leaks Online in Russian Dub
Dexter: Resurrection Finale Leaks Online in Russian Dub
Dexter: Resurrection finale leaks in Russian dub ahead of release. Episodes 9 and 10 surface online, echoing past TV leaks like Game of Thrones.Waqas (Hack Read)
GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot
Source: Mastodon.
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This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values.If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/2025-08-…
Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - The GitHub Blog
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…The GitHub Blog
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The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ | A partnership between xAI & the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved
So we can expect covert mecha-Hitler to run everything
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‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…Canary Media
“It’s like having the rug pulled out from under you. … Nobody understands why Trump did it. I don’t know what Trump’s agenda is,” said Morris.
Oh boy. It’s so funny.
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Ultimamente mi succede una cosa stramba, ossia che da un lato posto le cose e poi non le faccio… e dall’altro, faccio le cose ma poi non le posto!!! Ebbene, prima che anche quest’ultima cosa fatta cada nel nonpostatoio (o forse, prima che passi talmente tanto tempo che io nel frattempo faccia numerosi aggiornamenti), ecco […]
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Ultimamente mi succede una cosa stramba, ossia che da un lato posto le cose e poi non le faccio... e dall'altro, faccio le cose ma poi non le posto!!! Ebbene, pminioctt (fritto misto di octospacc)
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
Alaska Won’t Release Lists of Indigenous Murder Victims
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.ProPublica
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JD Vance Says He’s Ready to Be President If Trump’s Health Fails
JD Vance Says He’s Ready to Be President If Trump’s Health Fails
The vice president said he has received “good on-the-job training” since his swearing-in.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
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FBI director Kash Patel's girlfriend sues ex-agent for defamation over Israeli spy claim
FBI director Kash Patel's girlfriend sues ex-agent for defamation over Israeli spy claim
Alexis Wilkins accused Kyle Seraphin, a conservative podcaster and ex-FBI agent, of "using this fabricated story as self-enriching clickbait."Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
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Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025
Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by 1% in first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024.Lauri Myllyvirta (Carbon Brief)
Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women
“If you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear.”Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
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0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now
0% of Democrats Happy with State of the US Right Now
A Gallup poll found the split between Republicans and Democrats about their satisfaction with the direction of the country was at its widest since 2001.Khaleda Rahman (Newsweek)
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How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont
How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont
Americans for Prosperity claims its mission is to make Vermont more affordable. But its founding and financing by some of the world’s richest oil men and a history of spreading climate disinformation has raised doubts.Austyn Gaffney (VTDigger)
Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, wins election
Alabama town’s first Black mayor wins election after being locked out of office
Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton overwhelmingly won election four years after white residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve.The Associated Press (NBC News)
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After intensive lobbying by tech companies, Colorado has delayed implementation of its landmark artificial intelligence law
In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
Colorado delayed implementation of its AI Act amid pressure from tech industry and business groups, Serena Oduro writesSerena Oduro (Tech Policy Press)
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Lame, Colorado is usually one of the most reasonable states. Polis is a decent Governor too. I never saw any of the bad stuff that was allegedly supposed to happen after we forced employers to post pay ranges with jobs, so I don't really expect anything bad to come from regulating AI.
If we put strict guardrails and penalties with teeth around AI companies, they may go elsewhere, where they can act more unethically. That's fine with me because Colorado already has water issues and I feel like we manage to be progressive without trampling all over personal liberties. I also feel like a good portion of people in this state are real people who haven't had the idealism trampled out if them completely and still give/get good intentions.
Shit, I'm getting the itch to submit a citizens initiative to make the whole state an AI free zone right now. As for the AI decision-making, how about real, concrete, enumerable criteria. Vibes are not a suitable way to make big decisions. Fuck-off with your AI datacenters and opaque algorithms. Coloradans deserve to know how they're being treated. Anything that complicates that or makes it harder to understand is a tool of tyranny.
Yes, that's going a bit overboard, but so is hammering me with AI propaganda from the moment I wake up until after I go to sleep every day.
As someone who has been living here for a while now, I would say Colorado moreso masquerades as a reasonable state than actually being all that reasonable.
For one, property values run everything in this state to an insane degree. Most starter size homes in the state, even in towns without a real grocery store or much of anything, will run you nearly a million dollars (if not more). Its blatantly unsustainable and yet nothing is being done to fix it.
TABOR is a stupid system that is only better than legitimate corruption, which is what people compare it to. Realistically it is worse than keeping the tax money and spending it on improving things here. I would much rather not get a few hundred dollars back in a check each year if it meant that local public services didnt have to keep jacking up sales taxes so that they can continue to function. Especially when, as stated beforehand, we could properly tax the absolutely insane property value. Even just taxing second/vacation homes would be great… and yet no one wants to do that because then the housing market might actually cool off.
Im not saying we dont have nice things. We do. But everything about how this state is run caters to millionaires and then tells everyone else to get fucked if they cant hack it. Teachers here get paid worse than almost every other state in the country, despite the fact that we should be able to have the highest quality education system anywhere. If we funded it with property taxes especially, but thats a non-starter of course.
My town’s school and fire department are both failing financially and all anyone seems to want to do to fix it is jack up sales taxes. No more taxes on property. No more taxes on lodging or STRs. No, lets just tax the working class people to death as they try to afford already inflated food prices.
This state is as stupid as it is beautiful much of the time, unfortunately. The whole thing is a house of cards type bubble just waiting to pop, and its gonna be violent when it goes
In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
Colorado delayed implementation of its AI Act amid pressure from tech industry and business groups, Serena Oduro writesSerena Oduro (Tech Policy Press)
Scena di un episodio di X-files che non ritrovo più
Non ho riguardato molto della serie e preferisco gli episodi "Mostro della Settimana", ma ricordo una scena di un episodio della "Mitologia" in cui Mulder fa una rivelazione piuttosto teatrale in cui un documento che qualcuno voleva distrutto e perso nella memoria viene passato attraverso la tradizione orale di una tribù di nativi americani in perpetuo.
Non riesco a trovare alcuna prova della sua esistenza, né possono farlo i miei amici, tanto che stiamo iniziando a temere l'effetto Mandela.
Potete aiutarmi almeno con il nome dell'episodio se non un link alla scena stessa?
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in reply to jordanlund • • •They thought they were going to risk their carreer to protest against a company committing genocide and cause it massive amounts of negative media attention in the process.
Which is exactly what they did.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •AI augmented entertainment media can and does guide public sentiment in a closed feedback loop and it's only going to get better and better at it.
Now matter how much we rock the boat, it will efficiently dampen the waves, it will be like trying to rock a boat sunken into molasses
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •False. Companies and fairs absolutely despite protesters ruining their mood. It makes them very uncomfortable to hold speeches without being interrupted. Nadella avoided speeches for a long time because of fears people would interrupt him.
A large arms fair in The Netherlands recently banned Israeli stands from attending because they didn't want to deal with the massive amount of protesters ruining their convention again.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I mean, sure you can make a scene and ruin an event, maybe even turn the whole crowd to your side but what I'm a talking about in at the large social scale, we're all mostly ballasted between the endless distraction and the demands of work and life on our attention. Now add into this mix something analyzing sentiment , tweaking relatively small things in the media landscape and dissipating anything that might become a coherent, organized, aligned movement.
I feel like we're in some kind of quicksand or molasses, oh no, it might be "nothingeverhappenism"
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •Things have been happening. The media has faced so much pushback that they have been forced to partially repeat on Israeli crimes to save face. Which in turn turned all the MSM boomers against Israel too.
But most damning of all is the West choosing to lose its entire moral credibility for Israel. Doing nothing actually comes with a very heavy price which Israel is not paying. Europe and the US are.
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in reply to jordanlund • • •Effective protesting is when internet users set their profile picture to Clippy en masse, that ought to scare Microsoft and their contemporaries!
Get a grip, lib.
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in reply to jordanlund • • •Actually reminds me of some lines from a closing of a comedy act on this very topic:
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