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Two prominent unions are teaming up to challenge Amazon, reports the New York Times — "after years of organizing Amazon workers and pressuring the company to bargain over wages and working conditions."
Members of the Amazon Labor Union "overwhelmingly chose to affiliate with the 1.3-million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters" in a vote last Monday. While the Amazon Labor Union (or ALU) is the only union formally representing Amazon warehouse workers anywhere in America after an election in 2022
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A Texas-based millennial who's making $350,000 secretly working two remote jobs says he only worked 50 hours a week. Read more ›
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Boeing should know better, Timothy LeBaron, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board's aviation safety office said. Boeing has apologized. Read more ›
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So many important issues are at stake in the 2024 election: foreign policy, reproductive rights, immigration, the future of American democracy. But coming out of the first debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, one topic has crowded all those out: Biden’s performance. Biden’s rationale for agreeing to this historically early presidential debate was, in […] Read more ›
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The S25 Ultra could also be the thinnest Ultra device since the Note 20 Ultra. Read more ›
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, the next project from the creative team behind the original two Life is Strange games, has been delayed into 2025. Why? Well, the team behind it are keen to avoid the launch window of Square Enix's own new Life is Strange game Double Exposure, the latest to be made by the franchise's more recent development team Deck Nine Games. In a press release today, Lost... Read more ›
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Biden's chances at becoming the Democratic nominee also slid to 70%, while Gavin Newsom's odds jumped to 15%. Read more ›
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Britt Lorino, 55, relocated to Arkansas after living most of his life in Austin. The county's mover incentive program helped pay for his house. Read more ›
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Nearly half of EV owners in the US are considering switching back to a gas-powered car. Read more ›
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A man got caught allegedly cheating on an airplane. TikTok, and the internet, have a lot to say. Read more ›
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The CEO has revealed that Multiple Assassin's Creed remakes are being cooked up by Ubisoft. Read more ›
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A Tesla owner crashed his brand new Cybertruck in his first few hours of driving it. He says the brakes didn't work. It could cost $30,000 to repair. Read more ›
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Season three of FX's "The Bear" was released on Wednesday. It features returning guest stars, along with some unexpected celebrity cameos. Read more ›
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Prague-based Rohlik Group, a European e-grocery retailer, announced that it has secured €160M in a fresh round of growth funding. The round was led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), with participation from existing investors Sofina, Index Ventures, Quadrille, and TCF Capital. Additionally, the European Investment Bank (EIB) contributed growth capital through ... Read more Read more ›
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Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has spoken out to condemn "the malicious and personal online attacks" directed at its developers, in the wake of the online fallout from Assassin's Creed Shadows' reveal. Shadows is Ubisoft's upcoming feudal Japan-set entry in its long-running historical stabathon series. Earlier this month, Ubisoft revealed its dual protagonists to be Black samurai Yasuke, a notable figure from the period, and a fictional shinobi named Naoe, who... Read more ›
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On Thursday, the Court handed down a 6-3 decision, on a party-line vote, that could render a simply astonishing array of federal laws unenforceable. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes in dissent, “the constitutionality of hundreds of statutes may now be in peril, and dozens of agencies could be stripped of their power to enforce laws […] Read more ›
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A leaker has posted pictures of Samsung's upcoming foldable phones, scheduled to be launched on July 10 Read more ›
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A comatose Joe Biden would make a better president than Donald Trump. And the president’s capacity to lead the executive branch is, by most accounts, far greater than his capacity to speak in coherent, extemporaneous sentences on CNN. But the idea that Joe Biden is the best possible standard-bearer for the Democratic Party this November […] Read more ›
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Donald Trump fired off misleading or false statements during Thursday's debate, but President Joe Biden frequently stumbled with his words. Read more ›
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The NFL was hit with billions in damages after a jury sided with subscribers of the league's "Sunday Ticket" telecast package in an antitrust lawsuit. Read more ›
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After the Joe Biden's debate performance, concerns about his age are going to come roaring back. Read more ›
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Multiple AI companies are ignoring Robots.txt files meant to block the scraping of web content for generative AI systems, reports Reuters — citing a warning sent to publisher by content licensing startup TollBit. TollBit, an early-stage startup, is positioning itself as a matchmaker between content-hungry AI companies and publishers open to striking licensing deals with them. The company tracks AI traffic to the publishers' websites and uses analytics to help... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader unixbhaskar shared this report from Phoronix: Larry Finger who has contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005 and has seen more than 1,500 kernel patches upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel has sadly passed away. His wife shared the news of Larry Finger's passing this weekend on the linux-wireless mailing list in a brief statement. Reactions are being shared around the internet. LWN writes: The LWN Kernel Source... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: An online gaming dispute made its way to the real world when a New Jersey man flew to Florida to attack another player with a hammer, authorities said. Edward Kang, 20, is charged with attempted second-degree murder and armed burglary with a mask, according to Nassau County court records. He was arrested early Sunday morning. Kang and the victim, another... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares CNBC's report on the U.S. car market: Back in February, used electric vehicle prices dipped below used gasoline-powered vehicle prices for the first time ever, and the pricing cliff keeps getting steeper as car buyers reject any "premium" tag formerly associated with EVs. The decline has been dramatic over the past year. In June 2023, average used EV prices were over 25% higher than used... Read more ›
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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati isn't worried about how AI could hurt some creative jobs, suggesting during a talk that some jobs were maybe always a bit replaceable anyway. From a report: "I think it's really going to be a collaborative tool, especially in the creative spaces," Murati told Darmouth University Trustee Jeffrey Blackburn during a conversation about AI hosted at the university's engineering department. "Some creative jobs maybe will go... Read more ›
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Microsoft has quietly erased instructions for switching to a local account on Windows 11 from its official support website. The move took place between June 12 and June 17, 2024, according to Tom's Hardware. The tech giant has been increasingly pushing users towards Microsoft Account logins, citing benefits like enhanced security and cross-device syncing. While the option to use a local account still exists, this latest development suggests Microsoft is... Read more ›
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Kurt Schlosser reports via GeekWire: Living Computers Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a hands-on showcase for rare computing technology and interactive displays, will not reopen, more than four years after closing just ahead of the pandemic. Allen's estate, which has been managing and winding down his vast array of holdings since his death in 2018, confirmed to GeekWire that the... Read more ›
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In a contract worth as much as $843 million, NASA announced today SpaceX has been selected to develop a vehicle that will de-orbit the International Space Station in 2030. "As the agency transitions to commercially owned space destinations closer to home, it is crucial to prepare for the safe and responsible deorbit of the International Space Station in a controlled manner after the end of its operational life in 2030,"... Read more ›
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"A good portion of my home directory got deleted," complained a bug report for systemd filed last week. It requested an update to a flag for the systemd-tmpfiles tool which cleans up files and directories: "a huge warning next to --purge. This option is dangerous, so it should be made clear that it's dangerous." The Register explains: As long as five years ago, systemd-tmpfiles had moved on past managing only... Read more ›
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FreeDOS, the open-source OS that is helping keep the legacy of DOS alive, will turn 30 next week. Founded in 1994 by Jim Hall, then a college student, FreeDOS was created as a response to Microsoft's plans to phase out MS-DOS. Three decades later, FreeDOS continues to thrive. Despite the dominance of Windows and macOS, FreeDOS finds unexpected relevance in niche markets. Some laptop manufacturers in certain countries bundle FreeDOS... Read more ›
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