Meta to lay off 11,000 employees Elon Musk removes Twitter’s “rest days” to pursue 24/7 work culture Ability to select individual songs on Amazon Music removed until Users don’t pay $9/month.
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Meta announced in a staff memo that the company plans to lay off more than 11,000 employees, or more than 13 percent of its workforce. The company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, admitted that he mismanaged significant investments in the company and said layoffs were a “last resort”. Zuckerberg said the layoffs would affect the recruiting team and Reality Labs, the division responsible for the company’s Metaverse projects. The company is also cutting discretionary spending and extending its hiring freeze through the first quarter of 2023.
Source: business Insider
After cutting 3,700 employees last week, and then backtracking on that decision by asking some laid-off employees to return to work, Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk is now pushing more reforms to frustrate his employees. Huh. The company’s “rest days,” which are monthly days off for employees to rest and recharge, have now been removed in favor of a 24/7 work culture. Bloomberg also reported that Musk is planning to end the company’s remote work policy.
Source: money wise
Amazon recently added 98 million songs to its library of Amazon Music, free and without commercials for Prime members. But music can only be played in shuffle mode and users cannot choose artists, albums or individual songs from playlists, unless they pay an additional US$9/month for Amazon Music Unlimited. Amazon Music users have taken to Twitter to complain about the new changes.
Source: business Insider
According to independent researchers, Apple collects an extremely detailed amount of information about users even when they have turned off tracking. iPhone Analytics guarantees that Apple will “completely disable the sharing of device analytics” if the user turns it off. However, the researchers found that the analytics controls and other privacy settings had no apparent effect on Apple’s data collection – whether iPhone Analytics was turned on or off, the tracking remained the same. This violates Apple’s own description of how privacy protections work.
Source: gizmodo
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