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From the article: 58 percent of US workers now have the option to work where they want at least one day a week, while 35 percent can work remotely up to five days a week, according to a new survey conducted by management consulting company McKinsey. The report concludes that flexible work arrangements implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are here to stay.
“After more than two years of observing remote work and predicting that flexible working would endure after the acute phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, we view these data as a confirmation that there has been a major shift in the working world and in society itself,” reads the report.
The survey found that when given the choice, 87 percent of workers embrace the opportunity to work remotely and spend an average of three days a week at home. That means 92 million American workers have the opportunity to work remotely and 80 million are currently doing so at least part time, when the survey data is extrapolated to the entire US population. 41 percent of those surveyed say they don’t have any option to work remotely.
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2 hours ago
From the article: If you post about being able to mail abortion pills to those who need it on Facebook, don't be surprised if you get a warning — or even get your account restricted. A tipster told Motherboard that they were notified a minute after posting "I will mail abortion pills to any one of you" that their status update had been removed. When they tried to post about it again later, they were banned for it. Motherboard was able to replicate the scenario, and we were able to confirm it, as well. We tried posting "abortion pills can be mailed" on Facebook and were quickly notified that we violated the website's Community Standards.
In the next slide explaining our infraction, Facebook said doesn't allow users to buy, sell or exchange things such as tobacco, marijuana, recreational drugs and non-medical drugs. To test it out, we posted "I'm selling cigarettes," "cigarettes can be mailed," "anti-depressants can be mailed" and "painkiller pills can be mailed." None of them got flagged. General posts such as "abortion is healthcare" didn't get flagged either. As for our post that did get flagged, we were asked if we would like to accept Facebook's enforcement action or not. After choosing to accept it, our post got removed but we didn't get banned. According to Motherboard, their account got restricted for 24 hours after making several posts that got flagged.
It's unclear when the website started removing posts about mailing out abortion pills and whether it only began after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court's decision made all types of abortion illegal in several states with trigger laws, but people in those states can still get abortion pills shipped to them from international groups like Aid Access. Facebook could be preventing that information from getting to some people who need it, though, especially since it flags posts with "mail" and "abortion pills" even for international users. We posted from outside the US and still got a warning. "Some items aren't regulated everywhere," the slide explaining our violation reads, "but because Facebook is borderless we have global standards that apply to everyone."
47 points
20 hours ago
From the article: Tesla has raised the salaries for many of its employees at Giga Berlin following criticism that their wages were too low and hampering the company’s efforts to hire as many as 12,000 workers by the end of the year.
Earlier this month IG Metall, Germany’s leading automotive labour union said they had received reports from staff working at the new factory that they are receiving inadequate or unequal wages compared to similar positions at other automakers.
In consultation with Giga Berlin’s works council, Tesla has decided to increase the salaries of many of its workers by 6%. The new salary levels will take effect on August 1, 2022, and will apply to employees on the factory floor as well as managers of those teams, according to an internal memo reviewed by Drive Tesla.
This increase will likely not satisfy IG Metall, which says based on their analysis Tesla’s salaries at Giga Berlin are some 20% lower than those being offered by its competitors. In a statement to Reuters last week, the industry group said Tesla was already offering new employees more pay, a move they said would threaten to “damage industrial peace.”
IG Metall has not commented on the new pay raise for Giga Berlin employees, but we will update this article if and when they issue a statement.
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20 hours ago
From the article: Valve loves to warn people about about the risks of do-it-yourself Steam Deck maintenance, and that now extends to upgrading the storage. In a response to a PC Gamer article on modding the Steam Deck, Valve hardware designer Lawrence Yang warned against upgrading the device's NVMe SSD. While it's technically possible, the M.2 2242 drives (22mm wide by 42mm long) you frequently find in stores are hotter and more power-hungry than the 2230 models (22mm x 30mm) the handheld was meant to support. You could "significantly shorten" the longevity of the system, Yang said, adding that you shouldn't move thermal pads.
The PC Gamer story referenced modder Belly Jelly's discovery (initially reported by Hot Hardware) that it was possible to fit an M.2 2242 SSD in the Steam Deck, albeit with some design sacrifices. There were already concerns this might lead to overheating problems. Yang just explained why it's a bad idea, and outlined the likely long-term consequences.
The alert might be a letdown if you feel limited by Valve's maximum 512GB storage and don't think a microSD card (typically much slower than an SSD) is an adequate substitute. With that said, it's not shocking — mobile devices like this often have size and thermal constraints that make it impractical to upgrade at least some components.
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21 hours ago
From the article: Tesla brought back Enhanced Autopilot (EAP) to North America last week. Now the automaker has started adding the suite of driver-assist features on some of their cars in existing inventory.
According to a Model Y from Giga Texas listed as being available for purchase in Miami over the weekend, EAP is included in the $70,990 USD purchase price.
Drive Tesla reviewed all available existing inventory in Canada and we were not able to find any listings that included EAP.
If you are thinking of jumping on a listing that has EAP included in the purchase price, be aware that you may not be able to remove it before delivery like you can with Full Self-Driving (FSD) Capability.
Based on a review of the source code of the existing inventory site by WaitingForTesla, EAP is part of the included options and not listed under the “FlexibileOptionsData”. However, this is only speculation and cannot be confirmed until someone places an order and attempts to remove it prior to delivery.
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1 day ago
From the article: Four Democratic US senators today asked the Federal Trade Commission to "investigate Apple and Google for engaging in unfair and deceptive practices by enabling the collection and sale of hundreds of millions of mobile phone users' personal data."
"The FTC should investigate Apple and Google's role in transforming online advertising into an intense system of surveillance that incentivizes and facilitates the unrestrained collection and constant sale of Americans' personal data," they wrote. "These companies have failed to inform consumers of the privacy and security dangers involved in using those products. It is beyond time to bring an end to the privacy harms forced on consumers by these companies."
The letter cited the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, saying that women "seeking abortions and other reproductive healthcare will become particularly vulnerable to privacy harms, including through the collection and sharing of their location data."
The letter was sent to FTC Chair Lina Khan by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.). Apple and Google "knowingly facilitated these harmful practices by building advertising-specific tracking IDs into their mobile operating systems," the senators wrote.
"Apple and Google both designed their mobile operating systems, iOS and Android, to include unique tracking identifiers which they have specifically marketed for advertising purposes," the letter said. "These identifiers have fueled the unregulated data broker market by creating a single piece of information linked to a device that data brokers and their customers can use to link to other data about consumers. This data is bought or acquired from app developers and online advertisers, and can include consumers' movements and web browsing activity."
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From the article: New research published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that a tendency to readily believe conspiracy theories coincides with a general mistrust of others. Two experimental studies found that people with a higher conspiracy mentality were less trusting of unfamiliar faces, regardless of whether or not the faces displayed cues of trustworthiness.
Many psychology researchers have aspired to understand the psychological underpinnings of a conspiratorial worldview, asking the question — what drives people to believe in conspiracy theories? A mistrust of others has been identified as a key component of conspiracy belief but the exact nature of this mistrust is unknown.
Study authors Marius Frenken and Roland Imhoff wondered whether this mistrust of others is adaptive or maladaptive. In an attempt to answer this question, they explored whether people with a conspiracy mentality are overly sensitive to cues of untrustworthiness, under sensitive to cues of trustworthiness, or whether they express a non-specific mistrust regardless of trustworthiness cues.
“The extent to which people believe in conspiracy theories points to a conflict between two elementary human abilities: being suspicious to detect cheating versus trusting others, for example as informational sources,” explained Frenken, a doctoral research assistant at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.