Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
11 Million Devices Infected With Botnet Malware Hosted In Google Play
Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery — a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising revenue. With that, the app was infected with code that caused 100 million infected devices to connect to Read more…
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Amazon, Tesla, Meta Considered Harmful To Democracy
Amazon, Meta, and Tesla were named by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) as some of the worst corporate underminers of democracy . These companies were accused of union busting, monopolizing media and technology, violating human rights, contributing to climate change, and fostering political movements that threaten democratic institutions. The Read more…
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Startups Are Going ‘Fair Source’ To Avoid Pitfalls of Open Source Licensing
With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s designed to bridge the open and proprietary worlds, replete with new definition, terminology, and governance model. Developer software Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
California Sues ExxonMobil For Alleged Decades of Deception Around Plastic Recycling
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Monday alleging the company carried out a “decades-long campaign of deception” in which the oil and gas giant misled the public on the merits of plastic recycling. The complaint accuses the company of using slick marketing and misleading public Read more…
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California Bans All Plastic Bags
Paper or paper? In California, shoppers will have only one bag option at the checkout line starting in 2026. A decade ago, California became the first U.S. state to ban single-use plastic bags, the flimsy sacks that regularly blew into waterways, littered streets and collected in landfills. The prohibition, in Read more…