Samsung Electronics has reached a final settlement with the group representing the families of ex-employees who died from leukemia and other cancers while working at the company’s semiconductor plants. …read more Source:: oss watch
Month: November 2018
Google blasts piracy site-block Bill
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•There is ‘no reasonable policy basis’ for the amendments to the piracy site-block laws, which would expand them to online search engine providers, Google has argued. …read more Source:: oss watch
NBN satellite business plan ‘a matter of urgency’: Joint committee
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•NBN should introduce its business-grade satellite project, address fixed-wireless congestion, and update its regional broadband levy amounts before passing legislation, the joint standing committee has recommended. …read more Source:: oss watch
Digital transformation requires paying off that technical debt, studies show
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•‘IT leaders want to enjoy all the benefits of new information technologies while keeping their legacy systems humming.’ Gee, isn’t there a way of dealing with that? …read more Source:: it-priorities
GitHub alternative strives to be all open source, only open source
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•By Serdar Yegulalp A new software service for hosting and managing open source projects, Sr.ht, aims to be an entirely open source alternative to existing services like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Slow Netflix, YouTube streaming? Big telcos quizzed over bandwidth throttling
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•Senators tackle AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile for answers about alleged video traffic throttling. …read more Source:: oss watch
Foodora rider deemed employee in unfair dismissal case
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•The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a sacked Foodora rider was unfairly dismissed. …read more Source:: oss watch
Gift ideas? Perhaps check Mozilla’s gadget security, creepiness ratings before you buy
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•Mozilla’s buyers’ guide rates the security and privacy of 70 connected things, ranging from toys to smart speakers. …read more Source:: oss watch
Tencent’s WeChat steps up censorship to clear undesirable content
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•WeChat’s is purging undesirable content on its platform to maintain a ‘healthy’ reading environment as required by the government. …read more Source:: oss watch
Greens flag AU$1.5 billion NBN policy, Aussie GDPR, data retention repeal
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•The Greens party wants to invest AU$1.5 billion to make the NBN more equitable, AU$100 million in video game development, and AU$63 million in digital inclusiveness, as well as repealing …read more Source:: oss watch