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@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-10 21:21:08

Bad Bunny halftime performer goes viral for sharing workout stats as sugarcane plant nytimes.com/athletic/7036752/2

Bad Bunny halftime performer goes viral for sharing workout stats as sugarcane plant
Austin Klapman, a 26-year-old tech worker, walked 1,198 steps while dressed as a sugarcane plant during the Super Bowl halftime show.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-28 09:11:12

Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (Parth Mn/Rest of World)
restofworld.org/2026/india-tec

Death of an Indian tech worker
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-29 19:20:47

A San Francisco jury finds former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secrets related to AI chip technology to build a startup in China (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/ex-g

Ex-Google Worker Guilty of Stealing AI Tech for Chinese Firm (1)
A former Google engineer was convicted Thursday of economic espionage and trade secrets theft for taking hundreds of the company’s confidential documents on AI chip technology to build a startup in China.

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-01-31 12:43:31

What a paragraph. From
restofworld.org/2026/india-tec

India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment did not respond to multiple emails and phone calls from Rest of World. Nasscom, the industry lobby, did not respond to questions about worker treatment and stress. “AI is fundamentally reshaping the structure of work across sectors, but the current disruption is better understood as role compression and redesign rather than broad-based job elimination,” a Nasscom spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The new labor marketplace prioritizes senior rol…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-03-17 19:56:06

I want to stop hearing tech people whining about how they don’t get to pick what their employers want from them and it’s not their fault their employer requires them to work on evil projects
motherjones.com/politics/2026/