Source: CBC #news #newfoundlandandlabrador
Challenge accepted, says #stjohns mayor, as city steps up #housing demands from federal fund
The City of #stjohns plans to go after a larger chunk of change from a federal fund earmarked to build more #housing.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/stjohns-federal-funding-housing-proposal-1.7014249?cmp=rss
Creator of Nostr blasts #bitcoin Lightning as ‘a scam’ | Finbold
✍🏼https://finbold.com/creator-of-nostr-blasts-bitcoin-lightning-as-a-scam/
Amid a controversy, two #LightningNetwork developers have recently announced their departure from LN-related activities. While the creator of #Nostr called it “a scam”.
https://www.europesays.com/879398/ Halloween, don’t hate it’s for the kids. Yay, culturally appropriated vandalism 🙄 #switzerland
'Masquerade party costumes of the sun and the moon'. Photographed in 1924.
SEC sues SolarWinds and CISO, says they ignored flaws that led to major hack - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sean Gladwell)
The US Securiti... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1980175 #solarwinds #policy
Inserted AI-generated Microsoft poll about woman’s death rankles The Guardian - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)
On Tuesday, The Guardian accuse... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1980174 #machinelearning #automatednews #theguardian #microsoft #bingchat #ainoise #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz #aispam #msn #ai
Google Plans RISC-V Android Tools In 2024, Wants Developers To 'Be Ready' - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Android is slowly entering ... - https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/10/31/2059206/google-plans-risc-v-android-tools-in-2024-wants-developers-to-be-ready?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #android
[Dot]US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service - Security reporter Brian Krebs: The top-level domain for the United States -- .US -... - https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/10/31/1812201/dotus-harbors-prolific-malicious-link-shortening-service?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #security
Tesla Autopilot not responsible for 2019 fatal crash, jury says - Enlarge (credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Tesla's c... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1980233 #autopilotlawsuit #teslaautopilot #autopilot #lawsuit #cars
Apple's App Charges Violate EU Antitrust Law, Dutch Agency Says - Apple could be forced to scale back its App Store fees for developers after one of... - https://apple.slashdot.org/story/23/10/31/1936223/apples-app-charges-violate-eu-antitrust-law-dutch-agency-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #business
Nokia Sues Amazon From US To India Over Streaming-Tech Patents - Nokia sued Amazon in courts across three continents, alleging the e-commerce giant... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/10/31/1828236/nokia-sues-amazon-from-us-to-india-over-streaming-tech-patents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #court
Day by day, it appears much worse than previously thought
AI software market to quadruple to $251B by 2027 - The market for software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automate tasks and g... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3709453/ai-software-market-to-quadruple-to-251b-by-2027.html#tk.rss_all #artificialintelligence #productivitysoftware #softwaredevelopment #emergingtechnology #generativeai
Cryptocurrency Brings Disruption to Bankruptcy Courts—What Parties Can Expect and the Open Issues Still To Be Resolved (Part Two) https://nationallawforum.com/2023/10/22/cryptocurrency-brings-disruption-to-bankruptcy-courts-what-parties-can-expect-and-the-open-issues-still-to-be-resolved-part-two/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Gouvernement of Canada: Government of Canada to Enhance Critical Minerals Sector With Launch of $1.5 Billion Infrastructure Fund https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2023/10/government-of-canada-to-enhance-critical-minerals-sector-with-launch-of-15-billion-infrastructure-fund.html #Gouvernment #Canada #newsreleases
LABOR GAINS
Liberals, Start Giving Biden Some Damn Credit
Perhaps the most pro-union president ever, he has blazed a new and unprecedented trail—and yet, the left is largely indifferent.
Michael Tomasky/October 30, 2023
There’s a lot going on in the world, and most of it pretty grim. So let’s not look past the one piece of unqualified recent good news, and the larger economic meaning and possible political impacts of this news for 2024.
The United Auto Workers have signed historic deals with two of the “Big Three” automakers—Ford and Stellantis (the union reached a tentative deal with General Motors on Monday morning, after this article was published).* The deals, after a mere six weeks on strike, are overwhelmingly favorable to workers: a 25 percent raise over four years (think of that—an average of 6.25 percent a year, about double the current inflation rate); the top wage would take highest-paid workers from $67,000 to $83,000 before...
https://newrepublic.com/article/176482/biden-labor-economy-uaw-2024
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.