Apple has reached a contract agreement with unionized US retail employees for the first time

Apple and the unionized employees at its Towson, Maryland retail store have reached a tentative agreement that could secure them better pay, job protections, scheduling improvements to support a work-life balance and a more transparent disciplinary process. The Towson location in 2022 became the first Apple Store in the country to unionize, and back in … Read more

Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol

Freelancer has accused Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude large language models, of ignoring its “do not crawl” robots.txt protocol to scrape its websites’ data. Meanwhile, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said Anthropic has ignored the website’s policy prohibiting the use of its content for AI model training. Matt Barrie, the chief executive of Freelancer, … Read more

ISPs are fighting to raise the price of low-income broadband

A new government program is trying to encourage Internet service providers (ISPs) to offer lower rates for lower income customers by distributing federal funds through states. The only problem is the ISPs don’t want to offer the proposed rates. Ars Technica obtained a letter sent to US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo signed by more than 30 … Read more

Amazon is giving The Boys the prequel treatment

The Boys may be one season away from ending but it’s not done caking your screens with blood and torn muscle tissue. Cast member Jensen Ackles who plays Soldier Boy on The Boys revealed at the San Diego Comic-Con that Amazon will produce a prequel of the superhero show called Vought Rising. The new prequel … Read more

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