Amazon Spying on GNU/Linux, Microsoft and the Usual Abuses
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Amazon adds cloudy Linux desktops to encourage developers to code for EC2
Amazon Web Services has added a Linux option to its “WorkSpaces” desktop-as-a-service and pitched the offering as a fine way to develop apps for its own EC2 infrastructure-as-a-service.
The new desktops run Amazon Linux 2 and includes Firefox, the Evolution email and calendar app, Pidgin for chat and Libre Office for getting stuff done. It’s all based on the MATE desktop environment.
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Microsoft Women Suing Over Bias Denied Class-Action Status
U.S. District Judge James L. Robart issued a sealed order Monday denying class certification, without elaborating. The Seattle judge said the ruling won’t be made be public until both sides tell him what needs to be redacted, or kept private.
The denial deals a near-death blow to the lawsuit filed by three women on behalf of a proposed class of more than 8,630 high-level technical specialists.
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Judge deals blow to women suing Microsoft over gender discrimination
In a class certification motion unsealed in March, three Microsoft employees—Katherine Moussouris, Holly Muenchow, and Dana Piermarini—laid out their evidence that Microsoft's corporate culture is systematically hostile to female employees.
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Tech Employees Revolting Over Government Contracts Reminds Us That Government Needs Tech More than Tech Needs Government
While we were still in the middle of the heat storm over Donald Trump's decision to enact a zero tolerance border policy that resulted in children being separated from their parents at the border in far greater numbers than previous administrations, there was some interesting background coverage about the employees and customers of big tech companies like Microsoft receiving backlash for contracting with ICE. While much of that backlash came from outside those companies, there was plenty coming from within as well. Microsoft in particular saw throngs of employees outraged that the technology they had helped to develop was now being turned on the innocent children of migrants and asylum-seekers.
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Open Source TypeScript Cracks Top 100 in TIOBE Programming Language Popularity Report [Ed: Microsoft-connected sites promoting and openwashing a Microsoft-controlled programming language that's irrelevant and virtually nobody uses]
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