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read this good Verge piece on how companies are doing the absolute bare minimum to bypass the FCC bans on drones they've lobotomized the regulators, this is all the laziest pantomime by incompetent xenophobe protectionists
Here’s how easy it is to sneak a drone past the FCCWe visited a fake company that fooled the feds with obviously banned tech.www.theverge.comevery piece of business journalism I read on these bans of Chinese drones/vacuums/AI forgets to inform the reader this administration is too corrupt and incompetent to pull something like this off, even if this sort of protectionist nonsense wasn't foundationally stupid in the first place
Trump administration bans Chinese hardware with eye on AI raceThe action targeting China comes as the race between Beijing and Washington to dominate AI heats up.www.axios.comjust stuffing corpses with hay and putting on weird puppet shows at this point
BuzzFeed Laying Off 35% of Its Employees After Byron Allen Takes Over CompanyBuzzFeed is laying off 35% of its workforce on the heels of its deal to sell a controlling ownership stake to entrepreneur and comedian Byron Allen.variety.comyou know, at least U.S. business journalism spent a lot of time making it very clear this IPO was a fraudulent lie only made possible because the country is too corrupt to have functional regulators
Wall Street Races to Sell SpaceX-Linked Products as Stock SinksWall Street is racing to roll out complex investment products tied to SpaceX shares that aim to shield buyers from future losses amid a sharp selloff following its market debut.www.bloomberg.comah the good old days, when Ebay execs sent journalists "live spiders and cockroaches, pornographic magazines, a bloody pig mask, a funereal wreath, and a book about surviving the death of a spouse."
eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019 | TechCrunchIna and David Steiner inspired the ire of high-level eBay executives after occasionally criticizing the company in their newsletter. In 2019, a plot was concocted to intimidate the couple into halting...techcrunch.com
