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How OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google responded to EU court orders to block DNS resolution for pirate sites; OpenDNS left France and Belgium instead of complying (torrentfreak.com)
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A community-led fork of Organic Maps (www.comaps.app)
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Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages. (www.hrw.org)
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Chegg says subs dropped 31% in Q1 to 3.2M; it will lay off 248 employees, or ~22% of its staff, to cut costs as students keep turning to AI tools like ChatGPT (investor.chegg.com)
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In the first quarter, total revenue was $121 million, a decrease of 30% year-over-year. This includes Subscription Services revenue of $108 million. We had 3.2 million subscribers during the quarter, representing a year-over-year decline of 31%.

we regrettably will be parting ways with approximately 22% or 248 of our talented team members

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The New Frontline: How Technology Fuels Awakening—And Punishes Dissent (www.commondreams.org)
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As the U.S. deepens its support for Israel, social media has become both a site of political awareness and a tool of control, where anti-war dissent is tracked, flagged, and punished offline as well.

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Audible partners with US publishers to convert print books and e-books into AI-narrated audiobooks, with 100+ AI voices in English, Spanish, French, and Italian (www.audible.com)
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Saudi Arabia launches Humain, a multibillion-dollar AI company chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
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Digital erasure: How social media platforms are silencing Palestinians in 2024 (advox.globalvoices.org)
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