Notices by Pratik Patel (ppatel@mstdn.social), page 4

Oh, bloody hell!

A US district judge in Texas strikes down the FTC's ban on worker noncompete agreements, due to start September 4, after her temporary block of the rule in July (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-strikes-down-biden-administration-ban-worker-noncompete-agreements-2024-08-20/

The Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a manufacturing and clean energy boom in the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/20/inflation-reduction-act-sparked-a-manufacturing-clean-energy-boom.html

Can't wait for the discovery from this suit.

The AGs of 10 states join the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster; 39 states, plus DC, are now part of the lawsuit.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ten-additional-us-states-just-joined-the-dojs-antitrust-lawsuit-looking-to-break-up-live-nation-and-ticketmaster/

It's always hilarious to me that outlook.com accounts mark emails coming from Microsoft as Spam.

And the history repeats itself.

Eric Schmidt says he "misspoke" when he said Google was losing the AI race because it decided that "working from home was more important than winning".

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-eric-schmidt-ai-remote-work-stanford-f92f4ca5?st=klf0i3ukcs984cy

You mean to tell me that the fifth circuit actually got something right?

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that geofence warrants are “prohibited by the Fourth Amendment”, at odds with a recent Fourth Circuit ruling.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/us-appeals-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-unconstitutional/

Tell me about the hacked Clinton emails. I see all the major media orgs have supposedly gotten the hacked TFG material but none of them are falling over themselves to publish any of it unlike 2016.

#USPol #USPolitics

About to sue every fortune 500 company that doesn't buy my consulting service.

Using Trump’s logic, we can assume that the market's recovery today is because of #HarrisWalz2024.

CNet being sold to Zif Davis for $100 million after CNet purchasing it for $1.2 Billion is the total meta move ever. And, it says a lot about this industry.

The UK and US say they arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall, UK, suspected of being connected to the ransomware attack against MGM Resorts in 2023.

https://www.404media.co/uk-police-arrest-suspect-in-mgm-ransomware-attack/

@WarnerCrocker Oh I understand that. My recent step away from socials is a conscious and deliberate move for my mental health. I had to do it.

@WarnerCrocker Happy birthday. Here's to your health and happiness. Forget politics for one day.

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

It's good to be back here after a shortish break.

A spy tool is scraping the messages of thousands of Discord servers and selling the data.

This is letting people track users across servers, shows when they joined voice chats, which servers they're in, etc.

https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data

Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard and Movistar, who in turn offer workers their services.

https://restofworld.org/2024/gig-worker-rest-stop-nippy/

It's more like regulate us. But not like that.

Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ai-regulation-bill/

The effort to make a breakthrough cancer therapy cheaper

CAR-T cells could revolutionize the treatment of a wide variety of diseases, if only we can make them cheaper.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/12/1091161/car-t-cancer-therapy-treatment-expense/

There are a few people on Masto from whom I learn every day. @mekkaokereke is one of those people. I used to learn a lot from Michael Harriot on Twitter in a similar fashion. Too bad he's not here. But we have a great substitute here. If you're not following him, then you should.