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HR Tech Firm Rippling Sues Rival Deel for Corporate Espionage

Slashdot.org - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 09:06
HR software provider Rippling has sued competitor Deel for allegedly planting a spy in its Dublin office to steal trade secrets, court documents [PDF] showed on Monday. Rippling claims the employee, identified as D.S., systematically searched internal Slack channels for competitor information, including sales leads and pitch decks. The company discovered the alleged scheme through a "honeypot" trap -- a specially created Slack channel mentioned in a letter to Deel executives. When served with a court order to surrender his phone, D.S. locked himself in a bathroom before fleeing, according to the lawsuit. "We're all for healthy competition, but we won't tolerate when a competitor breaks the law," said Vanessa Wu, Rippling's general counsel. Both companies operate multibillion-dollar HR platforms, with Rippling valued at $13.5 billion and Deel at over $12 billion.

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Living games are here: How gen AI is leveling up the games industryLiving games are here: How gen AI is leveling up the games industryDirector for Games

GoogleBlog - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 09:00
Generative AI is powering the next big shift: the era of “living games” — games that adapt, grow and even help create themselves.Generative AI is powering the next big shift: the era of “living games” — games that adapt, grow and even help create themselves.
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Inside the launch of FireSat, a system to find wildfires earlierInside the launch of FireSat, a system to find wildfires earlierContributor

GoogleBlog - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 07:00
Learn more about Google Research’s FireSat project, built to detect small wildfires.Learn more about Google Research’s FireSat project, built to detect small wildfires.
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New AI Collaboratives to take action on wildfires and food insecurityNew AI Collaboratives to take action on wildfires and food insecurityDirector

GoogleBlog - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 07:00
Learn how our AI Collaboratives for wildfires and food security are taking a new funding approach to help people around the world.Learn how our AI Collaboratives for wildfires and food security are taking a new funding approach to help people around the world.
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The first FireSat satellite has launched to help detect smaller wildfires earlier.The first FireSat satellite has launched to help detect smaller wildfires earlier.

GoogleBlog - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 07:00
The first satellite for the FireSat constellation officially made contact with Earth. This satellite is the first of more than 50 in a first-of-its-kind constellation de…
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FSF's Memorabilia Silent Auction Begins Today

Slashdot.org - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 06:34
This week the Free Software Foundation published memorabilia items for an online silent auction — part of their big 40th anniversary celebration. "Starting March 17, the FSF will unlock items each day for bidding on the LibrePlanet wiki at 12:00 EDT.. Bidding on all items will conclude at 15:00 EDT on March 21, 2025... "During the auction, the FSF welcomes everyone who supports user freedom to bid on historical and symbolic free software memorabilia," they annouced this week: The auction is split into two parts: a silent auction hosted on the LibrePlanet wiki from March 17 through March 21 and a live auction held on the FSF's Galène videoconferencing server on March 23 from 14:00-17:00. The auction is only the opening act to a months-long itinerary celebrating forty years of free software activism... Executive director Zoë Kooyman adds: "These items are valuable pieces of FSF history, and some of them are emblematic of the free software movement. We want to entrust these memorabilia in the hands of the free software community for preservation and would love to see some of these items displayed in exhibitions." All in all, there are twenty-five pieces that are either directly part of the FSF's history and/or representative of the free software movement that will be available in the silent auction. Winning bidders can rest assured that all proceeds from this auction will go towards the FSF's continued work to promote computer user freedom worldwide. Silent auction items include: A print of the famous Gnu-with-Tux-as-superheroes poster signed by Richard Stallman and artist Lissanne Lake. Bids start at $300... A mid-1980s VT220 terminal that "still works, and can be connected to your favorite free machine over the serial interface... This is the same terminal that was on the FSF reception desk for some time, introducing visitors to ASCII art, NetHack, and other free software lore." Bids start at $250... (with estimate shipping costs of $100) An Amiga 3000UX donated to the GNU project "sometime in 1990." While it now has a damaged battery, "FSF staff programmers used it at MIT to help further some early development of the GNU operating system." Starting bid: $300 (with estimated shipping costs of $400). "A variety of plush animals that had greeted visitors at its former offices in Boston on 51 Franklin Street..." "The most notable items have been reserved for the live auction on Sunday, March 23," they note — including the Internet Hall of Fame medal awarded to FSF founder Richard Stallman in 2013 "as ultimate recognition of free software's immense impact on the development and advancement of the Internet."

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