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Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work - but only for half an hour at a time Meta is scaling back its plan to start tracking its employees' computer activity, according to an internal memo sent on Tuesday. In April the company received criticism from its own staff after it announced a new tool would log their keystrokes and mouse clicks to train its AI models. Now, according to Reuters, new controls will allow employees to pause the data collection for "up to 30 minutes at a time"...
Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans
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Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire
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A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters without GPU)
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The best new popular science books of June 2026
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Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto
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Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding
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Meet Fabrice Bellard: French engineer behind YouTube, Netflix and TikTok
Most people can name the founders of Apple, Microsoft, Meta or Tesla. Fabrice Bellard remains largely unknown outside programming circles despite creating software that helps power much of the modern internet. From the technology that processes online videos to the virtual machines underpinning cloud computing, Bellard's creations sit deep beneath the internet's surface, largely invisible to the people who rely on them.
Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code
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