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Oct 17, 2024 | technewstube.com | Hannah Murphy |Stephen Morris

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Oct 17, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Hannah Murphy |Stephen Morris

Some workers pooled their money together or had meals delivered to their homes. Meta has fired about two dozen staff in Los Angeles for using their $25 meal credits to buy household items including acne pads, wine glasses and laundry detergent. The terminations took place last week, just days before the $1.5 trillion social media company separately began restructuring certain teams across WhatsApp, Instagram and Reality Labs, its augmented and virtual reality arm, on Tuesday.

Sep 17, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Stephen Morris

Amazon has told staff they must return to the office five days a week from the start of next year, one of the strictest corporate crackdowns on remote working that has become commonplace since the pandemic. “We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID,” chief executive Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to employees globally on Monday.

Aug 8, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Stephen Morris |Hannah Murphy

Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company’s own rules for how minors are treated online. According to documents seen by the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter, Google worked on a marketing project for Meta that was designed to target 13- to 17-year-old YouTube users with adverts that promoted its rival’s photo and video app.

Jul 2, 2024 | flipboard.com | Camilla Hodgson |Stephen Morris

Liberal ViewNowSen. Sheldon Whitehouse tells it like it is: 'one crew, one plan, one cancer in the body politic'dailykos.com - by Meteor Blades • 18mBelow is an unrolled string of tweets from Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse about our political predicament.