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Tiktok ban signed into law

Funding package signed by Biden that will ban Tiktok and provide USD 95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan

Google employees lead sit-ins protesting company’s complicity in genocide

Tech workers are joining the Palestine solidarity movement in leading coast-to-coast sit ins at Google offices across the country

Google fires engineer for standing up for Palestine

Google continues troubling pattern of retaliation against employees for organizing in the workplace and against genocide

Will India be able to deal with Google’s adtech monopoly?

Indian media houses and publishers are losing revenue due to Google’s monopoly. The present competition regime in India, along with the Digital Competition Act, seems inadequate to address the issue

Uruguay drought Uruguayan environmentalists blame agribusiness and government for current water crisis

Environmentalists have argued that the water crisis facing the Montevideo metropolitan area is not only a consequence of the drought caused by climate change, but also of the excessive use of water by agro-industrial activities

El miedo a la IA es exagerado, y he aquí por qué

Los modelos de IA no tienen ningún nivel de comprensión similar al humano, pero son geniales para engañar a la gente haciéndoles creer que son inteligentes repitiendo como loros el vasto corpus de texto que han ingerido.

The Startup bubble: How it works | With Aunindyo Chakravarty

Senior journalist Aunindyo Chakravarty analyzes the tech startup bubble and explains how these start-ups raise money, and why it the sector remains one of the last avenues for finance capital to engage in speculation

ChatGPT The chatbot that is dangerously good

ChatGPT has generated a great deal of excitement as well as fears of redundancy of certain professions. However, it is vital to look at who is funding and developing this technology, who it will benefit, and who will get left out

No tech for apartheid A movement to expose role of big tech companies in promoting Israeli occupation and apartheid

Hundreds of tech employees have been protesting against Google and Amazon signing a deal with the Israeli government to develop artificial intelligence tools under the so-called Nimbus project which will be used to trace and control Palestinian movements

Daily Round-up | UN appeals for aid for flooded Pakistan & other stories

In today’s episode, we bring you stories of the Pakistan floods, the rescue of migrants from the Mediterranean, concerns over the health of a Palestinian prisoner, and a walkout from tech companies over their ties with Israel

Labor Notes conference reflects the new face of US unionism

The organization united 4,000 organizers and workers in Chicago to swap strategies during a particularly high point in the US labor movement

India’s data privacy bill: Commercializing our data and weakening our privacy

India’s government wants to club the commercial use of people’s data with the protection of personal data, and create structures that allow the commercialization of our personal data collected by the government