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Ubisoft Closes Game Studio Where Workers Voted to Unionize Two Weeks Ago
Ubisoft announced Wednesday it will close its studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia — two weeks after 74% of its staff voted to unionize.
This means laying off the 71 people at the studio, reports the gaming news site Aftermath:
[Communications Workers of America's Canadian affiliate, CWA Canada]...
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Amazon's AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge
Bloomberg reports on Amazon listings "automatically generated by an experimental AI tool" for stores that don't sell on Amazon.
Bloomberg notes that the listings "didn't always correspond to the correct product", leaving the stores to handle the complaints from angry customers:
Between the Christ...
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Finnish Startup IXI Plans New Autofocusing Eyeglasses
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:
Finland-based IXI Eyewear has raised more than $40 million from investors, including Amazon, to build glasses with adaptive lenses that could dynamically autofocus based on where the person wearing them is looking. In late 2025, the company said it...
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Gentoo Linux Plans Migration from GitHub Over 'Attempts to Force Copilot Usage for Our Repositories'
Gentoo Linux posted its 2025 project retrospective this week. Some interesting details:
Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirrors and pull request contributions to Codeberg. C...
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Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End 'Enshittification'
Scifi author/tech activist Cory Doctorow has decried the "enshittification" of our technologies to extract more profit. But Saturday he also described what could be "the beginning of the end for enshittification" in a new article for the Guardian — "our chance to make tech good again".
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