PetaPixel: To Save its Content, Archive Team is Attempting to Back Up All of DPReview

Posted on March 25, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

PetaPixel: To Save its Content, Archive Team is Attempting to Back Up All of DPReview. “Following yesterday’s news that DPReview is shutting down, photographers around the web began wondering what would happen to its huge library of articles, reviews, and camera test images, including the website’s excellent studio shot comparison tool. Archive Team aims to scrape more than 4 million articles and posts within the next three weeks.”

Ars Technica: Amazon layoffs will shut down camera review site DPReview.com after 25 years

Posted on March 22, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Ars Technica: Amazon layoffs will shut down camera review site DPReview.com after 25 years. “Amazon has plans to lay off at least 27,000 workers this year, including 9,000 that were announced in an internal email Monday morning. One unexpected casualty: Digital Photography Review, also known as DPReview, is losing its entire editorial staff, and the site will stop publishing on April 10.”

CNBC: Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees

Posted on March 17, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

CNBC: Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees. “Google is indicating to ex-staffers, who got laid off while on maternity and medical leave, that they won’t get paid for all of their remaining time off, according to former employees and written correspondence shared with CNBC.”

Report: Microsoft cut a key AI ethics team (Ars Technica)

Posted on March 14, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Ars Technica: Report: Microsoft cut a key AI ethics team. “An entire team responsible for making sure that Microsoft’s AI products are shipped with safeguards to mitigate social harms was cut during the company’s most recently layoff of 10,000 employees, Platformer reported.”

CNN: Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off

Posted on March 7, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

CNN: Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off. “Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s the latest example of the billionaire openly antagonizing his company’s current and former staffers.”

Twitter insiders: We can’t protect users from trolling under Musk (BBC)

Posted on March 6, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

BBC: Twitter insiders: We can’t protect users from trolling under Musk. “Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.”

Engadget: Google workers in Japan have joined a labor union in response to planned layoffs

Posted on March 2, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Engadget: Google workers in Japan have joined a labor union in response to planned layoffs. “Dozens of Google Japan employees have organized under the Tokyo Managers’ Union. It’s the first labor union at Google Japan, according to Meiji University Assistant Professor Ken Yamazaki, who also posted a copy of the group’s statements from a press conference. Apparently, the employees chose to organize out of fear that they could be abruptly laid off, especially since some of them are in Japan on work visas.”

‘Sometimes Things Break’: Twitter Outages Are on the Rise (New York Times)

Posted on February 28, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

New York Times: ‘Sometimes Things Break’: Twitter Outages Are on the Rise
. “In February alone, Twitter experienced at least four widespread outages, compared with nine in all of 2022, according to NetBlocks, an organization that tracks internet outages. That suggests the frequency of service failures is on the rise, NetBlocks said. And bugs that have made Twitter less usable — by preventing people from posting tweets, for instance — have been more noticeable, researchers and users said.”

Business Insider: Elon Musk faces upward of $130 million in legal costs to fight laid-off Twitter workers over severance pay

Posted on February 27, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Business Insider: Elon Musk faces upward of $130 million in legal costs to fight laid-off Twitter workers over severance pay. “The full process of arbitration, which companies commonly require employees to agree to as a private alternative to more public litigation, typically costs about $100,000, according to several law firms. Arbitration costs are often the employer’s burden, as employees often can’t afford the high cost of what an employer is essentially forcing them to do. Given that, Musk could see upward of $130 million in costs to individually arbitrate the employee cases filed so far.”

Reuters: Twitter lays off at least 50 in relentless cost cuts, The Information reports

Posted on February 26, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Reuters: Twitter lays off at least 50 in relentless cost cuts, The Information reports . “The job cuts impacted multiple engineering teams, including those supporting advertising technology, the main Twitter app as well as technical infrastructure to keep Twitter’s systems up and running, the report in the U.S. technology focused publication said early on Sunday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.”

The Verge: Elon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were done

Posted on February 22, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

The Verge: Elon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were done. “On November 21st, Elon Musk gathered Twitter’s remaining employees at its San Francisco headquarters to tell them that, after forcing out roughly two-thirds of the workforce in a matter of weeks, layoffs were over. He keeps laying people off anyway.”

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