An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Amazon illegally prohibited an employee from giving workers pro-union literature, confiscated that literature, and gave workers the impression that their organizing activity was being surveilled at the company’s Staten Island fulfillment center in New York, according to National Labor Relations Board charges and other documentation reviewed by…

The second quarter of the year saw the highest volumes of ransomware attacks ever, with Ryuk leading the way. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Climbing has made its debut at the Tokyo Olympics, but there’s plenty still top come. …read more Source:: CNet

Three-and-half months after launching the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, Apple is finally breaking it out from its iMac bundle. The accessory is now available as a standalone through Apple Stores and the company’s site. From a report: There are two versions: the standard and a longer model with a numeric keypad (pretty much what…

Black Widow, Luca, plus all the Star Wars and Marvel movies you could ever watch…. …read more Source:: CNet

Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure Stack Overflow has published its latest developer survey, revealing widespread deployment of Microsoft’s development tools as well as Google Cloud Platform and Azure jockeying behind AWS.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

On Tuesday, Apple rolled out three new graphics card modules for the Intel-based Mac Pro, all based on AMD’s Radeon Pro W6000 series GPU. From a report: (Apple posted a Mac Pro performance white paper [PDF] to celebrate.) The new modules (in Apple’s MPX format) come in three variants, with a Radeon Pro W6800X, two…

If you think 3D printing is only good for benchies, key chains, and printer parts, you might enjoy the paper by two physicists from Wesleyan University and the University of Gothenburg. Lord Kelvin — also known as William Thomson — hypothesized a shape known as an isotropic helicoid. As its name implies, the shape would…

As COVID-19 surges in the US, fueled by the delta variant, the automakers and union reconvened their coronavirus task force to ensure employees remain safe. …read more Source:: CNet

RoccamOccam writes: For the sixth-year, Rust is the most loved language, while Python is the most wanted language for its fifth-year in Stack Overflow’s 2021 survey of 80,000 developers. of this story at Slashdot. …read more Source:: Slashdot