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• The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity — Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
• Should You Watch Babylon 5? — If you liked DS9 seasons 4-7, you'll like B5 even more. If you hated DS9 seasons 4-7, you'll hate B5 even more.
• Musk's Neuralink to start human trial of brain implant — Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients.
• Are my podcast downloads declining because of iOS 17? — : Apple's changes help close the gap between downloads and actual listening behaviour. Not every downloaded episode gets played. So, fewer automatic downloads mean fewer downloads sitting unplayed on people's phones. For sponsors and advertisers, fewer automatic downloads mean fewer ads and promos that never get heard.
• Let’s build an AMD Ryzen Framework 13 DIY together - YouTube — A new challenger enters the ring. The Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen CPU batch 10 arrived at Badger Labs this weekend, so Iets build it!!

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• CoderRadioMascot on Twitter — I want to remind you that we have strict labor laws in Europe. I don't think denying a mascot it's vacation is legal. I consider founding the first podcast mascot union to make sure podcast mascot's rights are respected and not eradicated.
• Workplace Productivity: Are You Being Tracked? - The New York Times — Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability. What is lost?
• Archive.org: The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score — Now digital productivity monitoring is also spreading among white-collar jobs and roles that require graduate degrees. Many employees, whether working remotely or in person, are subject to trackers, scores, “idle” buttons, or just quiet, constantly accumulating records. Pauses can lead to penalties, from lost pay to lost jobs.
• Stof's thoughts on tabs or Spaces — Essentially, tabs are idealistic and would win any argument not based on real world 'not caring' of humans, so in reality spaces win, but how many spaces is a better question! I wonder what the audience would say about 2 spaces?
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• Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps — Aaditya Purani, one of the researchers who found these vulnerabilities, said that “regular users should know that the Electron apps are not the same as their day-to-day browsers,” meaning they are potentially more vulnerable. 
• RCE Vulnerability found in Electron — This occurs because of the way ElectronJS is designed and is a fundamental design issue within the framework. (ElectronJs = JS + Chromium so this intersection is where the flaw occurs as it’s not same as your normal chrome browser).
• Telegram update brings new animated emoji — The latest update to Telegram’s app for iOS comes with multiple new features, especially for Premium subscribers.
• Telegram CEO complains about App Store 'obscure review process' — For example, our upcoming update – which is about to revolutionize how people express themselves in messaging – has been stuck in Apple’s ‘review’ for two weeks, without explanation or any feedback provided by Apple.
• Apple asked for a cut of Facebook’s ad sales years before it stifled Facebook’s ad sales — Apple reportedly argued that it deserved a cut of certain portions of Facebook’s ad revenue.
• Apple Set to Expand Advertising, Bringing Ads to Maps, TV and Books Apps — Apple is set to expand ads to new areas of your iPhone and iPad in search of its next big revenue driver. Also: The company slows its pace of acquiring startups, and Peloton embarks on a major overhaul.
• Apple and Facebook’s Pre-ATT Negotiations, Timing and Documentation — The Wall Street Journal fills in important details about the run-up to ATT, including negotiations between Apple and Facebook. Then, ATT denials don't hold water. – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Mark Gurman on Twitter — Power On: Apple is set to expand ads to more parts of your iPhone, beyond News, Stocks and the App Store. Up next? Probably in Maps, Books, Podcasts and one day TV+.
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• Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios — Google will close its two game studios, located in Montreal and Los Angeles. Neither had released any games yet. That closure will impact around 150 developers, one source familiar with Stadia operations said.
• Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 - Slack Engineering — As if this was not already an inauspicious start to the New Year, while we were in the early stages of investigating, our dashboarding and alerting service became unavailable.
• After You Die, Microsoft Wants to Resurrect You as a Chatbot — In a December 2020 patent, Microsoft outlines a process for uploading data about a person—even the deceased—to turn their likeness into a chatbot.
• Data of the dead: Virtual immortality exposes holes in privacy laws
• Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain= — A warning went up on the perl.org infrastructure weblog overnight notifying users that perl.com now directed to a parking site and advised against visiting "as there are some signals that it may be related to sites that have distributed malware in the past."
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