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Remote Working Saved Zillow Money, Helped Recruiting, and Maintained Productivity(2025-03-16 20:00:07)

Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman "recently told Entrepreneur magazine that almost five years of remote work has 'been fantastic for us,'" writes the Seattle Times. Zillow shifted to allowing people to work fully remote during the pandemic. It's been a recruiting and retention tool for Zillow as they "no...
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After Meta Blocks Whistleblower's Book Promotion, It Becomes an Amazon Bestseller(2025-03-16 15:00:09)

After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company, the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that "The arbitration order has no impact on Macmillan... W...
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Ocean Levels Rise to a 30-Year High - and Faster Than Expected(2025-03-16 10:00:14)

The Washington Post reports: Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35% higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis published Thursday... Last year's rate of average global sea level rise was 0.23 inc...
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Amazon Forest Felled To Build Road For Climate Summit(2025-03-16 05:00:04)

"A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit," reports the BBC, "in the Brazilian city of Belém." The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people at the conferenc...
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Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open-Source Local-Only AI Solutions?(2025-03-16 00:00:14)

"Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally," asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn't steal the work of others. Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that "doesn't spy... and no one else owns it." We download it, from souce-code if you like, install ...
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