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  • Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

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  • It was definitely the path that required the least amount of effort from them and they happily pocketed near 50% of the settlement.

  • Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

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  • Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

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  • As far as I'm aware the lawyers didn't consult with the class-action members, or at the very least I was never asked if we should accept the settlement or not, the lawyers just accepted. Alternatively you could opt out of the settlement if you wanted, which is what I chose to do, mostly because the settlement amount was far too low, in my opinion, and they required signing and accepting an NDA which I was not willing to do.

  • Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

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  • I was originally part of this class-action. When the lawyers decided to settle I refused to accept the settlement, purely because Google admitted no fault and also required us to agree that we couldn't ever sue over the issue again in the future even if new evidence came to light. The dollar amount they offered wasn't tiny (it wasn't large by any means either), but I felt it was in no way a valid amount for what was being claimed. Not to mention the lawyers were taking close to or maybe more than half of the settlement money, which I find offensive considering they decided to settle the case and allow Google to wash their hands of the matter. Luckily I reserved my right to sue again in the future, but I'd either have to go at it alone or try to form a new class-action suite. I'm still incredibly disappointed that the lawyers handling the case backed down and took the settlement, I would have rather lost the case and discovered the truth than take a pittance and let Google off.

    Edit: I almost forgot, the most aggregious requirement to the settlement was the non-disclosure agreement that you had to accept which meant you couldn't say anything at all about the settlement or the case if you took the money. It also appeared to me that they were trying to apply the non-disclosure even if you didn't take the settlement, which I don't know how you can be held to a NDA if you haven't signed and accepted the NDA. The whole thing smelled of bullshit to me.

  • Ye Olde Pedo Protector

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  • Well, I guess I know what I'm getting her for christmas this year.

  • Ye Olde Pedo Protector

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  • Now you got me thinking you're mistaking me for some other stoat, as far as I'm aware my grandma isn't at the wearing diapers stage yet.

  • Ye Olde Pedo Protector

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  • Actually, she has a no politics rule.... Unless that's only for me.

  • Ye Olde Pedo Protector

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart, I'm glad you're able to keep my grandma company seeing as she lives alone it definitely warms my heart knowing she has your companionship!

  • Ye Olde Pedo Protector

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  • My 95 year old grandmother genuinely looks better than he does.

  • "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator

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  • While we don't do game development, my company has investigated using gen ai for code and we found that it doesn't reliably assist us in anything other than boilerplate code. I personally found that it hallucinates APIs on the regular which made it a massive waste for me as I basically had to go back and rewrite most of the code myself. Using gen ai for code reminded me of every time I've worked at a company that outsourced code; we rarely ever got what we asked for and by the time we got something usable it still wouldn't be up to our standards, which generally resulted in scrapping what was delivered and having to rewrite the whole thing internally.

  • Democrats Unveil 3 Articles Of Impeachment Against Kristi Noem | "Secretary Noem, you have violated your oath of office and there will be consequences," said Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.).

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  • Any new appointments would have to go through congressional approval. Of course they could potentially get rubber stamped by the Republican controlled Senate, but they are losing support of some of the Republicans in the Senate so it's not a guarantee right now. I believe Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have both stated publicly that they will block any appointments to the Federal Reserve so I can see them or others potentially doing the same for other appointments. This being an election year probably has a lot of them considering how they can save face for what they've let occur over the last year. I'm still making a lot of assumptions so who knows what would happen.

  • GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026

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  • Wasn't it one of the original founders who bought gog from CD Projekt? So really it's new, old, ownership.

  • Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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  • The biggest problem is that he was in a position of power over those women and that makes it considerably harder to say no when the person asking could make or break your career.

  • Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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  • He has even admitted himself that he was in a position of power over those women and that makes it considerably harder to say no when the person asking could make or break your career.

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  • You're paying them for their knowledge and time and they can provide to you an independent view point as well as teach you skills that you can use to manage problems in your life. Sure, you could go online and try to figure that all out for yourself, but you could do the same with fixing a car or plumbing or some other skill you don't currently have. I also believe you have to find the right therapist for you and you should definitely "shop around" until you find a good fit.

  • Thousands of jailed immigrants in Chicago have vanished from federal records, human rights attorneys claim

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  • Who said I said to do nothing? I'm just saying don't go out and start shooting people as at this point it will only make things worse.

  • Thousands of jailed immigrants in Chicago have vanished from federal records, human rights attorneys claim

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  • I think this is exactly what Trump and his administration want, they want us to escalate to violence so they can step theirs up even more or even declare martial law and then we're really screwed.

  • EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly

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  • It's almost as if we're rediscovering outsourcing all over again. Every time a company I have worked for outsourced code we 100% of the time had to either ditch to project all together or rewrite the code ourselves, thus negating all the money "saved" by outsourcing. I see the exact same thing happening with AI now.

  • New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports

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  • Pretty easy problem to solve, just issue company cards and stop making people use their own cards for work purposes and then reimbursing them.