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Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine.
  • Fines like this should be calculated based on % of corporations net assets. Something like this, say 5-10%. That would at least get their attention.

    Same with personal fines honestly, percentage of income or total wealth, depending on the crime.

  • It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027
  • I have mixed feelings on this. I think there were a few good reasons to move to sealed batteries. In an ideal world you could give consumers choices between the various trade-offs and offer multiple models or variants.

    But of course that will never happen because non-replaceable batteries present a far better business case. If they were forced to offer options, the manufacturers would deliberately make the user-replaceable models far shittier and then complain to the regulators that they were unpopular.

  • Hollywood actors announce strike in first joint action with writers in 60 years
  • I’m having a hard time believing that industry executives are negotiating in even remotely good faith. If that were true, it’s not likely that a second major union would have joined the strike.

    Such ridiculous pandering; get ready for the PR tactics that will make union demands look unreasonable and paint the workers as lazy and greedy.

  • Actors join writer strike: first tandem strike in Hollywood since 1960
  • I’m having a hard time believing that industry executives are negotiating in even remotely good faith. If that were true, it’s not likely that a second major union would have joined the strike.

    Such ridiculous pandering; get ready for the PR tactics that will make union demands look unreasonable and paint the workers as lazy and greedy.

  • Detroit car dealers fear GM ditching CarPlay 'could go bad'
  • Yeahhhhh… the infotainment in the last GM vehicle I drove maybe 4-5 years ago had a UI that looked like it was designed by a drunk child, absolutely no useful functionality to speak of, and was slower than molasses in winter. I’ll believe their Carplay killer when I see it.

  • How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
  • Completely agree. I think it’s just going to become a very mainstream basic place for basic discussion, probably with a lot of mean comments, racism, bigotry, etc. It wasn’t that way when I joined and it had already fallen pretty far when I left last month.

    It’s not going to die as a site but the community is already gone.

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