📘 Issue N.13 is out
What Automation Teaches About Work
Building my first real automation workflows this week made something very clear: the difficult part is rarely the task itself. It is the structure behind it — the formats, the assumptions, the small inconsistencies that manual work quietly absorbs.
Automation does not just save time. It exposes how work is really organised.
👉 Full issue here: https://federicagazzelloni.substack.com/
📰 Are Employers Using Your Data To Figure Out the Lowest Salary You'll Accept?
MarketWatch looks at "surveillance wages," pay rates "based not on an employee's performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees' knowledge...
📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/04/04/0420240/are-employers-using-your-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
MarketWatch looks at "surveillance wages," pay rates "based not on an employee's performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees' knowledge." According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at labor advocacy group Towards Justice, some systems ...
🎮 Datamined Elden Ring cutscene gives more clues about DLC villain Miquella's original story
Cryptic as always.
📰 Source: Latest from PC Gamer
🔗 Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/datamined-elden-ring-cutscene-gives-more-clues-about-dlc-villain-miquellas-original-story/
🐧 15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Astronomical Data Analysis Tools
Astronomy is a branch of science that deals with the study of celestial objects (including stars, planets, moons, comets, asteroids...). The post 15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Astronomical Dat...
📰 Source: LinuxLinks
🔗 Link: https://www.linuxlinks.com/astronomicaldataanalysis/
⚖️ Triple Header for Privacy’s Defender in New York
You’re invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and argued before judg...
📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/triple-header-privacys-defender-new-york
📰 Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.
📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk/
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📰 SAD! Trump’s AI data center push is failing. Blame his own tariffs.
Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.
📰 Source: Ars Technica
🔗 Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/sad-trumps-ai-data-center-push-is-failing-blame-his-own-tariffs/
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