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[Link] Corporations Won’t Pay $15 an Hour Unless They’re Forced To
Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com
The vast majority of big food and retail corporations in the United States aren’t paying anywhere near a $15 an hour minimum wage, according to a new report from Harvard researchers and the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
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[Link] Joe Manchin Wants to Let Companies Keep Polluting in Private, Thanks
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Should companies have to explain their role in causing climate change? There’s a simple answer, according to Sen. Joe Manchin: Hell no.
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[Link] Starbucks CEO Announces NFTs to Workers Amid Union Drive
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
In a town hall meeting on Monday aimed at Starbucks workers amid a massive union drive, failed presidential candidate and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed a development that he hoped would excite workers: crypto.
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[Link] Amazon referred to US attorney general over ‘potentially criminal conduct’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Members of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging “potentially criminal conduct” by the company and some of its senior executives.
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[Link] US lawmakers seek criminal probe of Amazon for lying about use of seller data
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
Amazon lied to Congress about its use of third-party seller data, the House Judiciary Committee said today. In a letter to the Department of Justice, the committee chairs asked prosecutors to investigate the company for criminal obstruction of Congress.
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[Link] Warren, Sanders Demand Investigation into Amazon’s Attendance Policy
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Senators Cory Booker and Richard Blumenthal and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush also wrote the letter.
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[Link] Facebook Github Repo Spammed with Messages Supporting Russia
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
The messages viewed by Motherboard are in English and Mandarin. “The Rakshasa people will surely kill the hypocritical European and American robbers! False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. “I heard you support the Nazis” another reads.
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[Link] Peloton Apologizes to 2800 Laid-Off Workers With Free Memberships
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Peloton, the fitness and technology company, announced Tuesday that it was laying off 2,800 people as it attempts to right the ship following a string of controversies and corporate missteps that led to production stoppages, price increases, and a plunging share price.
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[Link] Peter Thiel Is Stepping Down From Facebook to Go Full MAGA
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is stepping down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company said Monday.
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[Link] ‘Just never going to be OK’: report finds luxury brands falling behind on animal welfare
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Despite recent commitments from the luxury fashion industry to reduce its environmental footprint, a report has revealed luxury fashion brands are among the worst in the industry for animal welfare, driven by their continued use of fur and exotic animal skins.
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[Link] Exploitation complaints almost nil: Coles
Read: 2/12/2021 7news.com.au
Supermarket giant Coles says the rate of work exploitation complaints in its supply chain has dropped to almost zero over the past year.
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[Link] Prosecution gets Elizabeth Holmes to admit she was in control of Theranos
Read: 2/12/2021 arstechnica.com
At this point in her criminal trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' best chance for acquittal is for the jury to believe that she was a puppet being controlled by her boyfriend, company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Yesterday, the prosecution attempted to pick apart that defense.
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[Link] The Taliban Are Blacklisted by Facebook. Then Why Are They Allowed to Post?
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
For years, Facebook has prohibited the Taliban from using its platform under its counter-terrorist and hate group community standards.
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[Link] The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist
Read: 1/12/2021 www.wired.com
Six months ago, a tiny startup called Kytch sued Taylor, the billion-dollar manufacturer of McDonald's notoriously broken ice cream machines.
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[Link] Westpac admits to charging 11,000 dead customers, ASIC sues for 'widespread' breaches
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched six court cases against Westpac for alleged, widespread compliance failures that affected thousands of deceased consumers.
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[Link] Elizabeth Holmes throws scientists under the bus
Read: 24/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Elizabeth Holmes would like the jury to know that scientists, at Theranos and at other companies, led her astray. One of those scientists was Ian Gibbons, who led Theranos’ scientific research efforts.
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[Link] Keystone XL pipeline developers seek $15 billion for cancellation in one of biggest trade appeals against U.S. ever
Read: 24/11/2021 financialpost.com
Developers of Keystone XL are seeking to recoup more than US$15 billion in damages connected to President Joe Biden’s decision to yank a permit for the border-crossing oil pipeline even after construction began. With a request for arbitration filed Monday, Calgary-based TC Energy Corp.
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[Link] Gopuff Delivery Workers Plan National Strike Ahead of Thanksgiving
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Some participating workers plan to not work their scheduled shifts as part of the strike, and others will refuse to fill in for them, organizers say. They hope this will have a “significant impact” on a company that promises delivery of food and goods in just half an hour.
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[Link] Ninth Circuit Tells NSO Group It Isn't A Government, Has No Immunity From WhatApp's Lawsuit
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Long before its current run of Very Bad News, Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group was already controversial. Investigations had shown its exploits were being used to target journalists and activists and its customer list included governments known mostly for their human rights abuses.
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[Link] California Man in 4-Day Standoff With Abandoned Amazon Truck in Driveway
Read: 16/11/2021 www.vice.com
The man, who asked to be identified by his Twitter alias Captain Lou because he was worried his employer wouldn’t want him to beef with Amazon publicly, said his ordeal started when he ordered some Quilted Northern toilet paper from Amazon.
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[Link] Theranos tests detected prostate-cancer marker in prostateless women
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Around 2016, Theranos’ fourth lab director, Kingshuk Das, noticed a problem. He was analyzing data from the company’s diagnostic devices when he saw results from tests for prostate-specific antigen, or PSA.
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[Link] Holmes’ ex-boyfriend, who was Theranos exec, bullied and ignored $1.2M investor
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
In 2006, Alan Eisenman invested more than $1 million in Theranos, a then-promising medical diagnostic company founded by college dropout Elizabeth Holmes.
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[Link] Discord Backs Off of Crypto After Entire Internet Yells at CEO
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, Discord CEO Jason Citron posted a tweet teasing integration between the gaming-focused chat platform and Ethereum, setting off a total shitstorm.
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[Link] Video: Howard Schultz Compares Selflessness of Starbucks to That of Holocaust Prisoners
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Schultz visited Starbucks workers in Buffalo days before a historic union election that could have reverberating effects across the fast food and retail industries.
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[Link] Adobe brings a simplified Photoshop to the web
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Adobe is bringing Photoshop and Illustrator to the web, letting you make changes to documents hosted in the cloud without having to download them and open up the app.
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[Link] Nintendo's YouTube Video For Its Switch Online Upgrade Is Its Most Hated Video Ever
Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Well, this is moving fast. We had just been discussing Nintendo's announcement for a new tier of Nintendo Switch Online services.
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[Link] Big Telecom Is Mad Because New FCC Appointment Gigi Sohn Actually Defends Broadband Consumers
Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
So after the longest (and completely unexplained) delay in FCC and NTIA history, last week the Biden administration finally got around to fully staffing the nation's top telecom regulator.
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[Link] Clearview Finally Submits AI For Independent Testing; Only Tests Feature It Isn't Actually Selling
Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
At long last, Clearview has finally had its AI tested by an independent party.
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[Link] Mark Zuckerberg downloaded and used a photo app that Facebook later cloned and crushed, antitrust lawsuit claims
Read: 7/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The founders of a photo-app startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, The New York Times first reported on Thursday.
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[Link] If Americans can’t have basic things like childcare, our democracy is a sham
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors.
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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.
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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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[Link] New York City Taxi Drivers Win Debt Deal After 15-Day Hunger Strike
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has declared victory in its struggle with the city government that had made millions artificially inflating the price of taxi medallions and then left taxi drivers to suffocate under debt as those prices plummeted in the age of Uber.
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[Link] US oil giants top list of lobby offenders holding back climate action
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
ExxonMobil and Chevron are the world’s most obstructive organisations when it comes to governments setting climate policies, according to research into the “prolific and highly sophisticated” lobbying ploys used by the fossil fuel industry.
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[Link] US Sanctions Could Cut-off NSO from Tech It Relies On
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government added NSO Group to a federal denylist that prohibits any American company or individual from selling or providing services to the controversial Israeli spyware seller. The sanctions effectively prohibit any U.S. company, as well as American citizens working in the U.S.
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[Link] Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business. Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.
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[Link] Parallel metaverses: Facebook’s name change is challenged by Arizona retailer Meta PCs
Read: 2/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Facebook Shuts Down Massive Photo Tagging Facial Recognition Program
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
For years, photo tagging was a core Facebook feature and was one of the main things people “did” on Facebook. To tag a photo, you clicked a specific part of it and wrote in the name of your friend.
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[Link] Facebook has ruined our reality, now it’s coming for the metaverse too
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
“Facebook”. The word paints a thousand pictures, every one of them a portrait of some element of the human condition I could happily live without. Message requests from veterans in Montana that read, “Hello beautiful Lady.
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[Link] Red Spice Road owners publish open letter about unpaid former staff
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theage.com.au
The owners of popular city restaurant Red Spice Road, which planned to reopen without contacting or paying the staff it sacked in May, have released an open letter claiming there had been a terrible misunderstanding.
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[Link] Netflix hit with unfair labor charge from suspended and fired employees
Read: 31/10/2021 www.avclub.com
After weeks of controversy surrounding its release of—and then vocal high-level support for—the transphobic material in Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, streaming giant Netflix now faces an unfair labor charge from two of its current/former employees.
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[Link] Zuckerberg’s role in Facebook rebrand may backfire, experts say
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to remove “negative associations” between Facebook and its parent company may be undermined by his decision to front the launch of its rebranding as Meta, experts have said.
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[Link] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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[Link] Why does Amazon make games?
Read: 27/10/2021 www.theverge.com
When Amazon makes a new movie or TV show, the reason is pretty clear: the tech giant needs to build out its streaming service Prime Video. One of the best ways to do that is to make (or buy) exclusive series and films. But when Amazon develops a new video game, the reasons aren’t so clear.
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[Link] Techies demand top dollar as skills shortages bite
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Australian tech companies are turning down new business because soaring pay rates being charged by workers with in-demand skills are making projects unprofitable, instead turning to training and other non-financial strategies to try to lure and retain staff.
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[Link] Even Republicans Can Be Convinced That Big Oil’s to Blame for Climate Change
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. What does it take to convince a Republican that oil and gas companies lied about the existence of climate change and are responsible for contributing to it?
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[Link] Amazon ‘Delivery Partners’ Hit Amazon With $150 Million Lawsuit
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Two Amazon delivery companies in the Portland area sued Amazon Monday, claiming that the e-commerce giant controls nearly every aspect of their business and penalizes them for circumstances beyond their control. The companies are seeking $15 million in damages.
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[Link] What Crisis? Facebook Made $9 Billion In Profit in the Last 3 Months
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the face of it, Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in its history.
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[Link] Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be, Too?
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Peaceful protest isn't curbing the rapidly worsening crisis. Some activists say it’s time to attack the actual tools used to destroy the planet. Violence can be a flimsy word—so broad as to be devoid of meaning.
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