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Scale AI to Cut 14% of Staff Following Meta Investment

Scale AI is laying off hundreds of employees from its data-labeling business, one month after Meta Platforms Inc.…
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How Waymo Driverless Cars Could Change Los Angeles - Autonomous taxis have arrived in the nation’s second most populous city. Some Angelenos a... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/los-angeles-waymo-driver.html #driverlessandsemiautonomousvehicles #californiapublicutilitiescommission #trafficaccidentsandsafety #carservicesandliverycabs #losangeles(calif) #roadsandtraffic #laborandjobs #alphabetinc #waymo

Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters

The music industry is shifting up a gear and is now taking action against a German hosting provider. Three big labels are suing the provider Uberspace for hosting the website of the open source project youtube-dl. With the software, which is available on the code sharing platform Github, YouTube videos and music files can be downloaded without a web browser. According to the plaintiffs, this violates copyright law. ...

https://news.i-n24.com/lifestyle/news/253970.html

The article is unclear on this, but the lawsuit appears to by Sony Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music, filed at the district court of Hamburg.

Time for Google to step up and declare whether it is for good, or has sided with the evil of copyright absolutists.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29924339

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Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce. - A couple are heading to court to decide who is entitled to a fortune, started in the earl... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/technology/Scott-Hassan-Allison-Huynh-divorce.html #divorceseparationsandannulments #computersandtheinternet #allisonhuynh #alphabetinc #scotthassan #marriages #googleinc

Silicon Valley Leaders’ Plea to Democrats: Anyone but Sanders - Their tech employees are a different story. more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/technology/silicon-valley-bernie-sanders.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #presidentialelectionof2020 #presidentialelections(us) #computersandtheinternet #primariesandcaucuses #siliconvalley(calif) #venturecapital #sandersbernard #alphabetinc