Wikimedia Foundation staffers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200 US employees across engineering, finance, and communications (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-workers-vote-on-whether-to-unionize/
very nice analysis of the limits of #meshtastic for #disaster #communication why it is probably unsuitable for disaster communication, but also where and how it could make limited sense.
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August 2013
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed a hefty fine for a New Jersey truck driver
whose alleged use of a GPS jammer caused harmful interference to the new ground-based augmentation system (GBAS) at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).
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#Bundeslied
If everything that’s made with it is free of copyright and available as free and open source. Not just the model weights; all of it. So Antrophic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, etc., are forced to release all their software as free software.
In other words, if we get rid of copyright altogether for everyone and all tech and all information enters the commons. Of course, that would also take implementing universal basic income, universal healthcare, housing, etc. (i.e., a proper social saf…
Falcons GM Ian Cunningham calls decision to keep four QBs 'a little bit of an insurance policy' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-gm-ian-cunningham-keep-four-qbs-insurance-policy
Trash is found in a part of the planet that scientists have always assumed was pristine and unreachable by human activity https://www.earth.com/environment/human-litter-has-reached-one-of-the-oceans-most-remote-submarine-canyons/…
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HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/04/happyrobot-worth-1-2-billion-f…
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company plans to spend $10B "over the coming years" to deploy 120K driverless vehicles, aiming to hit 15 cities in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/04d6fcb4-03e4-4ee5-9017-ccaa7808c934