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Fallout and Doom QA Testers Just Formed the Biggest Union in the US Games Industry
“It's difficult to express in words just how much winning our union matters to us.”
FTC Sues to Block Microsoft Acquisition of ‘Call of Duty’ Publisher Activision Blizzard
The almost $69 billion purchase would be the largest in video game history but only if the federal government lets it proceed.
“Death From a Thousand Cuts”: ZeniMax QA Workers Share Why They’re Unionizing
Over 300 workers in the game developer's quality assurance department are hosting a union election this month.
GitHub Users File a Class-Action Lawsuit Against Microsoft for Training an AI Tool With Their Code
This lawsuit represents a growing concern from programmers, artists, and other people that AI systems may be using their code, artwork, and other data without permission.
Elon Musk Is ‘Definitely’ an Ally, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Says
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, told VICE World News he spoke regularly with Musk, and that there were currently no issues with Starlink.
GitHub Users Want to Sue Microsoft For Training an AI Tool With Their Code
“Copilot” was trained using billions of lines of open-source code hosted on sites like Github. The people who wrote the code are not happy.
I Applied for a Job at Microsoft But Didn’t Tell Them I’m Blind. Here’s What Happened Next.
A software engineer shares what it was like to interview with one of the largest technology corporations in the world, without letting on about his disability.
Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company’s Internal Logins
A cybersecurity firm found that Microsoft workers uploaded sensitive login credentials to Microsoft's own systems to GitHub.
Microsoft Compares Russian Hacks of Ukraine to Assassination That Started World War I
In a newly released report, Microsoft details Russia’s cyber threats to Ukraine, and its president gives a…stunning introduction.
Juul Is an Easy Target—Let's Ban More Tech Products That Harm Us
Many tech solutions are offered to problems created by those responsible. Instead of entertaining them, let's ban them.
Microsoft Promises Not to Squash Historic Video Game Industry Union
A highly unusual agreement means that workers may have an easier time forming unions at Activision Blizzard once Microsoft has finished its acquisition of the gaming giant.
Microsoft’s Chinese Bing Censorship Impacts United States Too, Researchers Say
Researchers at Citizen Lab found that Bing censors Chinese politically sensitive names to users in the United States.