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  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by jedlicka
    +12 +4

    Big Business’ Plan to Block Biden’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements

    THE CHAMPIONS OF the “free market” are frantically lobbying to block the Federal Trade Commission’s imminent ban on noncompete agreements, which prevent workers from seeking better-paying jobs or starting new businesses. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobby in the country, touts itself as the voice for “competition in the marketplace,” a principle it says is vital for innovation and dynamism in the economy. Despite its rhetoric, the Chamber is mobilizing against a major reform proposed by the FTC to liberate workers from so-called noncompete clauses.

  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by jerrycan
    +2 +1

    The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new LGBTQ rights case

    303 Creative v. Elenis, a case about a website designer who refuses to design wedding websites for same-sex couples, could potentially become one of the most consequential anti-discrimination cases in the Supreme Court’s recent history. It asks whether the First Amendment’s free speech protections give at least some anti-LGBTQ conservatives a constitutional right to violate civil rights laws.

  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by zyery
    +19 +5

    U.S.' chip ban to hurt Korean facilities in China, TSMC: Report

    The U.S. government's recent decision to impose new restrictions on the sale of semiconductors and chipmaking equipment to China could hurt the Chinese foundries of South Korean chipmakers and the sales of TSMC, information advisory firm Trendforce Corp. has concluded. The measures announced by the United States on Friday included the requirement that advanced computing chips, including those used in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC), and production equipment cannot be sold to China without a license.

  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by zritic
    +18 +4

    Indigenous peoples call on the world to act urgently to save the Amazon

    The call is to act against the threats that are destroying the largest tropical forest on the planet. From September 5 to 9, the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), will bring together delegates and representatives of the nine countries that make up the Amazon to present their threats and solutions and call for the union of peoples, states and international organizations in order to preserve the great lung of the planet.

  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by Nelson
    +17 +2

    You may qualify for over $10,000 in climate incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act. Here's when you can claim them

    The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law Aug. 16, offers tax credits and rebates to consumers who buy clean vehicles and appliances or take other steps to reduce their carbon footprint.

  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by gottlieb
    +14 +2

    Semiconductor bill unites Sanders, the right — in opposition

    A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and the fiscally conservative right.

  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by canuck
    +15 +2

    How one senator’s broken hip puts net neutrality at risk

    One of the strange features of American government is that an 82-year-old’s broken hip can cause a sea change in telecom policy. The 82-year-old in question is Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who had surgery after a fall on Thursday and is said to be resting comfortably. But, while Leahy recuperates, he won’t be able to cast votes, and Democrats won’t be able to flex their razor-thin Senate majority — which could cost the administration its last chance to institute net neutrality rules.

  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by jerrycan
    +4 +1

    Beyond the official clichés: The Texas school shooting reveals the advanced sickness of American society

    The mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers, and the wounding of 17 more people, at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday was a genuinely horrific event. The students killed were 9, 10 and 11 years old, in the second, third and fourth grades. The adults killed, both women, were fourth-grade teachers. The perpetrator of the crime barricaded himself inside a classroom and opened fire with a lightweight semi-automatic rifle that he had obtained a day after his 18th birthday, one week earlier.

  • Current Event
    1 year ago
    by dynamite
    +15 +1

    Why we can’t record mobile phone calls — and why we should be able to

    Several years ago, I had to deal with a situation that may be familiar to a lot of people: I was slammed with a series of high medical bills that had been denied by the insurance company. The doctor was in network, but according to the insurance company, his bills were coded wrong. Or wait, his facilities weren’t in network or… well, you get the idea. It took over a year and many phone calls to iron out the issue — and I wouldn’t have gotten through it had I not been able to record each phone call I made with the insurance company and the various medical facilities involved.

  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by zobo
    +20 +4

    The governor of Missouri still doesn’t know how websites work

    Mike Parson, Governor of Missouri, does not understand how websites work. He held a press conference earlier this week in St. Louis to once more reiterate his desire to prosecute a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist for looking at the source code of a state-run website.

  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by Amabaie
    +14 +2

    Ontario passes new rules aimed at work-life balance for employees

    The Ontario government has passed new laws it says will help employees disconnect from the office and create a better work-life balance.

  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by ticktack
    +9 +1

    Infrastructure Bill's Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous

    The recently passed $1 trillion infrastructure package is jam-packed with initiatives but sprinkled in there alongside $17 billion in funding for road safety programs is a mandate requiring carmakers to implement monitoring systems to identify and stop drunk drivers.

  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by kong88
    +20 +5

    The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Dead. Next Target: Line 3.

    The fight over the pipeline will be, at least for now, where Biden’s climate commitment will be judged.

  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by mariogi
    +20 +3

    Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing

    The Epic v. Apple trial was bookended by Tims. Epic Games called its CEO Tim Sweeney as the first witness nearly three weeks ago. Yesterday, Apple called Tim Cook as the last to take the stand, before both sides make their final case to a judge on Monday. Cook was supposed to bring home Apple’s defense of its ecosystem. He did it by laying out Apple’s most high-minded principles — but also its hard financial calculations.

  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by hiihii
    +3 +1

    Snapchat Can Be Sued For Role In Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules

    A federal appeals court on Tuesday issued a stunning ruling: It said a decades-old legal shield preventing platforms from lawsuits should not apply to Snapchat in a case involving a fatal car crash.

  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by zyery
    +25 +4

    Apple will reportedly face EU antitrust charges this week

    The European Commission will issue antitrust charges against Apple over concerns about the company’s App Store practices, according to a report from the Financial Times. The commission has been investigating whether Apple has broken EU competition rules with its App Store policies, following an initial complaint from Spotify back in 2019 over Apple’s 30 percent cut on subscriptions.

  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by wetwilly87
    +26 +5

    Google is limiting which apps can see everything else you have installed

    Google will soon be more selective about which apps on the Play Store can see all of the other apps you have installed (via XDA-Developers). As Ars Technica points out, your list of installed apps, innocent as it seems, can communicate to developers personal traits like dating preferences and political affiliations. So starting on May 5th, 2021, developers will have to provide a very good reason for why Google should let you access info like that.

  • Current Event
    3 years ago
    by Chubros
    +11 +2

    Democrats are gearing up to fight for net neutrality

    A new bill to bring back net neutrality is on its way, supported by one of the open internet’s most fervent advocates. At an advocacy event last month, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) announced that he would be introducing a measure in the next few “weeks” that would engrave the no throttling, block, or paid fast lanes rules into law.

  • Current Event
    3 years ago
    by geoleo
    +18 +5

    Don’t Let Amazon and Airbnb Get Their Tentacles in Vaccine Distribution

    The vaccine rollout in the United States has been a national embarrassment. A doctor in Houston was fired for using ten doses of vaccine that would have otherwise expired and gone to waste. Local and state sign-up portals are impossible to navigate, even for tech-literate adult children trying to enroll their elderly parents. There is seemingly unending confusion about overall supply, which states are desperately low on shots, and when the country can expect vaccine production to scale up to meet the urgency of the demand.

  • Current Event
    3 years ago
    by zobo
    +1 +1

    Foxconn tells Wisconsin it never promised to build an LCD factory

    In October, Wisconsin denied Foxconn subsidies because it had failed to build the LCD factory specified in its contract with the state. As The Verge reported, it had created a building one-twentieth the size of the promised factory, taken out a permit to use it for storage, and failed to employ anywhere near the number of employees the contract called for. Nevertheless, Foxconn publicly objected “on numerous grounds” to Wisconsin’s denial of subsidies.