BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs. “Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.”

The Register: Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models. “Megha Yethadka, global head of Uber AI Solutions, revealed the new gigs in a Thursday LinkedIn post in which she said drivers sometimes have downtime during the day or might want to make some extra cash after hours. Yethadka said the work can involve reviewing photos, counting objects, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/05/the-register-uber-india-starts-offering-drivers-gigs-collecting-and-classifying-info-for-ai-models/

The Register: Maryland man pleads guilty to outsourcing US govt work to North Korean dev in China . “A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to fraud after landing a job with a contractor working on US government software, and then outsourcing the work to a self-described North Korean developer in China. Minh Phuong Ngoc Vong is a Vietnamese-born naturalized US citizen. He recently pleaded guilty […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/the-register-maryland-man-pleads-guilty-to-outsourcing-us-govt-work-to-north-korean-dev-in-china/

The Verge: Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI. “Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be ‘AI-first.’ The email was posted on Duolingo’s LinkedIn account.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/30/the-verge-duolingo-will-replace-contract-workers-with-ai/

Anyone know any contract jobs for part time entry level Typescript backend programming roles?

3 to 6 months should be fine, but more interested in building up experience and potentially a portfolio while I get paid. I've been learning typescript for a friend who I just had a heated argument with (he has been a sexist ass the past few weeks) and not sure about the contract job he promised me after these two projects.

I've been mostly coding backend projects that use postswagger, express, and sequelize. Will complete these two projects and add them to my github repo, but interested in starting to do contract roles.

I am also interested in golang, but mostly entry level. I do have a lot of projects that use golang, but not sure I am good enough to code in it for a job. I do plan on learning c# properly in 3 months after I start working and making real money.

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The Conversation: Africa’s data workers are being exploited by foreign tech firms – 4 ways to protect them. “Since 2015, we have been studying the central role of African data workers in building and maintaining artificial intelligence (AI) systems, acting as ‘data janitors’. Our research found that companies rarely acknowledge the use of human workers in AI value chains, thus they […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/the-conversation-africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them/