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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract  The Verge Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Iran fires drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in unprecedented revenge attack  Yahoo! Voices Source link

There was more internal controversy this week, also tied to the crisis in Gaza. Ahead of an International Women’s Day Summit in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Google’s employee message board was hit with an influx of staffer comments about the company’s military contracts with Israel. The online forum, which was going to be used to help inform what questions were asked of executives at the event, was shut down for what a spokesperson described to CNBC as “divisive content that is disruptive to… Source link

“This is what AI work looks like when workers have no say in the process.” Enshittification Amid a massive wave of tech company layoffs in favor of AI, Google is firing thousands of contractors tasked with making its namesake search engine work better. As Vice reports, news of the company ending its contract with Appen — a data training firm that employs thousands of poorly paid gig workers in developing countries to maintain, among other things, Google’s search algorithm — coincidentally… Source link

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea will launch a military strike immediately in response to any provocation, Kim Yo Jong, the sister and key ally of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Sunday, as it fired artillery shells near its border with the South for the third day in a row. The remarks come after South Korea’s military said the North had fired more than 60 artillery rounds on Saturday near their disputed maritime border, following a similar volley of more than 200 the previous day. North Korea again… Source link