2022-10-10
“Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules” https://techcrunch.com/... Florida based telemarketing company hires remote Dutchman, demanded 9h/day webcam presence. https://twitter.com/...
NL Times
A Dutch court says tracking a remote worker via webcam is an unreasonable intrusion, awarding him €75K after his US employer fired him for having his webcam off
This is missing the word BIOS, which makes it a lot less interesting https://twitter.com/...
Tom's Hardware
Intel confirms its proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party; the Alder Lake BIOS source code was leaked to 4chan and GitHub
Hack's perpetrator and origins remain unknown. — We recently broke the news that Intel's Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked …
2021-10-25
“Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?” Microsoft removed hot reload from open source dotnet, and actively sabotages better C# support in VS code, because it wants to protect VS Studio. Not smart, and shows that OSS friendly MS still is just a facade. https://dusted.codes/...
The Verge
Microsoft reverses its decision to remove code editing feature Hot Reload in its upcoming .NET 6 SDK, after backlash from the open source community
2021-02-17
https://kotaku.com/... “Google could afford to burn through hundreds of millions trying to jumpstart a new gaming platform with exclusive content. Instead, it ended up burning through the trust of some of the approximately 150 developers impacted”
Kotaku
Sources: Google's Stadia VP Phil Harrison sent an email to Stadia's game studios lauding their “great progress”, despite knowledge of its impending shutdown
Developers at Google's recently formed game studios were shocked February 1 when they were notified that the studios would be shut down …