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FSF's Memorabilia Silent Auction Begins Today
This week the Free Software Foundation published memorabilia items for an online silent auction — part of their big 40th anniversary celebration. "Starting March 17, the FSF will unlock items each day for bidding on the LibrePlanet wiki at 12:00 EDT.. Bidding on all items will conclude at 15:...
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BlueSky Proposes 'New Standard' for When Scraping Data for AI Training
An anonymous reader shared this article from TechCrunch:
Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving.
CEO Jay ...
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Google's AI 'Co-Scientist' Solved a 10-Year Superbug Problem in Two Days
Google collaborated with Imperial College London and its "Fleming Initiative" partnership with Imperial NHS, giving their scientists "access to a powerful new AI designed" built with Gemini 2.0 "to make research faster and more efficient," according to an announcement from the school. And the result...
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Remote Working Saved Zillow Money, Helped Recruiting, and Maintained Productivity
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
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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