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• Report: Scale cuts off subsidiary’s remote workers in several countries

  29-03-2024 21:18
  
  Scale AI, the data processing company that advertises itself as a way to train generative AI on higher-quality information, has apparently shut down access to its platform in several countries, leaving gig workers in the lurch.The company, which does much of its data processing through a subsidiary called Remotasks, cut access to its portal for workers in Nigeria, Kenya and Pakistan in  March, according to a report by Rest of World. The gig workers used by Remotask, and by extension Scale,
  
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• Apple will continue to enhance its DMA compliance

  29-03-2024 17:43
  
  With WWDC 2024 now set, Apple continues to work on bringing itself more in line with US government demands. What we don’t know yet is the extent to which these changes will be restricted to the EU, or whether Apple intends to make them available worldwide in an attempt to quell regulatory zeal.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Asian Hockey Federation successfully concludes it’s Executive Board Meeting 2020 - Asian Hockey Federation

  29-03-2024 17:19 via news.google.com
  Asian Hockey Federation successfully concludes it’s Executive Board Meeting 2020  Asian Hockey Federation
  
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• Why even hybrid RTO mandates are hurting overall job satisfaction

  29-03-2024 11:00
  
  Though most companies have settled on return-to-office (RTO) policies now that COVID-19 is no longer considered a global health emergency, many continue to adjust their practices, often to the detriment of their workforce.Several workforce surveys over the past three months have revealed that employees do not view mandated RTO policies favorably, even when hybrid, because the guidelines are often too rigid.During the pandemic, employees became comfortable with flexible work arrangements. When p
  
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• AI is on a fast track, but hype and immaturity could derail it

  29-03-2024 11:00
  
  The marketing hype surrounding AI broadly — and generative AI (genAI) more specifically — is becoming tiresome. You can't open an article or watch a news video without running into at least a reference to it. We may be approaching the point at which we stop breathlessly extolling its virtues (and dreading some of its outcomes).The hype is so extreme that a fall-out, which Gartner describes in its technology hype cycle reports as the "trough of disillusionment," seems inevitable and
  
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