Freedom of the Press Foundation: Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow. “…news readers often find themselves blocked by paywalls from reading important stories about government business. That experience is particularly frustrating for readers who are unable to access the groundbreaking investigative reports outlets like Wired magazine have been […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/freedom-of-the-press-foundation-wired-is-dropping-paywalls-for-foia-based-reporting-others-should-follow/

Reuters: Google, Meta face penalties for anti-competitive behaviour towards South African news media. “Google could be required to pay up to 500 million rand ($27.29 million) a year in compensation to South African media outlets after the country’s competition watchdog found the tech giant guilty of anti-competitive practices, while Meta and X also face fines.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/25/reuters-google-meta-face-penalties-for-anti-competitive-behaviour-towards-south-african-news-media/

...and the rest are incapable of writing even the simplest report... 😎

"Last week, a tweet by Stanford researcher Yegor Denisov-Blanch went viral within #SiliconValley. “We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies,” he tweeted. “~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers.”"

Are Overemployed ‘#GhostEngineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?
https://www.404media.co/are-overemployed-ghost-engineers-making-six-figures-to-do-nothing/ #TechIndustry #Engineers #BullshitJobs