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   Game Dev Says Contract Barring 'Subjective Negative Reviews' Was a Mistake
   by msmash on 14/05/2024 at 3:22 pm
   
   The developers of team-based shooter Marvel Rivals have apologized for a
   contract clause that made creators promise not to provide "subjective
   negative reviews of the game" in exchange for early access to a closed alpha
   test. From a report: The controversial early access contract gained
   widespread attention over the weekend when streamer Brandon Larned shared a
   portion on social media. In the "non-disparagement" clause shared by Larned,
   creators who are provided with an early download code are asked not to "make
   any public statements or engage in discussions that are detrimental to the
   reputation of the game." In addition to the "subjective negative review"
   example above, the clause also specifically prohibits "making disparaging or
   satirical comments about any game-related material" and "engaging in
   malicious comparisons with competitors or belittling the gameplay or
   differences of Marvel Rivals." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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   Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto
   by msmash on 14/05/2024 at 2:40 pm
   
   A panel of judges in the Netherlands has found Alexey Pertsev, one of the
   developers behind crypto anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, guilty of money
   laundering. Wired: Over the course of two days in March, the Russian national
   was tried on the allegation that the tool he developed had allowed criminals
   -- among them hackers with ties to North Korea -- to freely launder $1.2
   billion in stolen cryptocurrency. "The management of Tornado Cash welcomed
   the bank robbers with open arms," the prosecutors wrote in a March court
   filing. Dutch judges sentenced Pertsev to five years and four months in
   prison on Tuesday, which was the term requested by prosecutors in the case.
   "With Tornado Cash, the defendant created a shortcut for financing crimes and
   terrorism," said the court in a statement, translated from Dutch. "He chose
   to look away from the abuse and did not take any responsibility." The purpose
   of tools like Tornado Cash, known as crypto mixers or tumblers, is to mask
   the origin and destination of users' coins. Funds belonging to many parties
   are pooled, jumbled up, and spat out into brand-new wallets, by which time it
   is no longer clear whose crypto is whose. These services are promoted as a
   way to improve the level of privacy available to crypto users, but have been
   readily co-opted for the purpose of money laundering. On August 8, 2022,
   Tornado Cash was sanctioned in the United States, making it illegal for US
   citizens to use the service. Any product that "indiscriminately facilitates
   anonymous transactions," wrote the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets
   Control, represents a "threat to US national security." Two days later,
   Pertsev was arrested in the Netherlands, where he resided. Money laundering
   activity, the Dutch prosecutors claim, accounted for more than 30 percent of
   the funds that passed through Tornado Cash between 2019 and 2022. [...]
   Pertsev built his defense on the argument that Tornado Cash, which remains in
   operation, is under nobody's control -- including his own -- as a piece of
   software that runs on the Ethereum blockchain, a distributed network of
   computers. Further reading: Coinbase Employees and Ethereum Backers Sue US
   Treasury Over Tornado Cash Sanctions (September 2022). Read more of this
   story at Slashdot.

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   AWS CEO To Step Down
   by msmash on 14/05/2024 at 1:50 pm
   
   AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, effective June 3, according to an
   email from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Matt Garman, SVP of AWS sales, marketing,
   and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO. Read more of
   this story at Slashdot.

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   Ordered Back To the Office, Top Tech Talent Left Instead, Study Finds
   by BeauHD on 14/05/2024 at 1:00 pm
   
   An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post:
   Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies --
   Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX -- were followed by a spike in departures among
   the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published
   last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of
   Michigan. Researchers drew on resume data from People Data Labs to understand
   the impact that forced returns to offices had on employee tenure and the
   movement of workers between companies. What they found was a strong
   correlation between the departures of senior-level employees and the
   implementation of a mandate, suggesting that these policies "had a negative
   effect on the tenure and seniority of their respective workforce."
   High-ranking employees stayed several months less than they might have
   without the mandate, the research suggests -- and in many cases, they went to
   work for direct competitors. At Microsoft, the share of senior employees as a
   portion of the company's overall workforce declined more than five percentage
   points after the return-to-office mandate took effect, the researchers found.
   At Apple, the decline was four percentage points, while at SpaceX -- the only
   company of the three to require workers to be fully in-person -- the share of
   senior employees dropped 15 percentage points. "We find experienced employees
   impacted by these policies at major tech companies seek work elsewhere,
   taking some of the most valuable human capital investments and tools of
   productivity with them," said Austin Wright, an assistant professor of public
   policy at the University of Chicago and one of the study's authors. "Business
   leaders should weigh carefully employee preferences and market opportunities
   when deciding when, or if, they mandate a return to office." While the
   corporate culture and return-to-office policies differ "markedly" between the
   three companies, the similar effects of the RTO mandates suggest that "the
   effects are driven by common underlying dynamics," wrote the authors of the
   study. "Our findings suggest that RTO mandates cost the company more than
   previously thought," said David Van Dijcke, a researcher at the University of
   Michigan who worked on the study. "These attrition rates aren't just
   something that can be managed away." Robert Ployhart, a professor of business
   administration and management at the University of South Carolina, said
   executives haven't provided much evidence that RTO mandates actually benefit
   their workforces. "The people sitting at the apex may not like the way they
   feel the organization is being run, but if they're not bringing data to that
   point of view, it's really hard to argue why people should be coming back to
   the workplace more frequently," Ployhart said. Senior employees, he said, are
   "the caretakers of a company's culture," and having to replace them can have
   negative effects on team morale and productivity. "By driving those employees
   away, they've actually enhanced and sped up the very thing they were trying
   to stop," Ployhart said. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

 * 
   Internet Use Is Associated With Greater Wellbeing, Global Study Finds
   by BeauHD on 14/05/2024 at 10:00 am
   
   According to a new study published in the journal Technology, Mind and
   Behavior, researchers found that internet use is associated with greater
   wellbeing in people around the world. "Our analysis is the first to test
   whether or not internet access, mobile internet access and regular use of the
   internet relates to wellbeing on a global level," said Prof Andrew
   Przybylski, of the University of Oxford, who co-authored the work. The
   Guardian reports: [T]he study describes how Przybylski and Dr Matti Vuorre,
   of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, analysed data collected through
   interviews involving about 1,000 people each year from 168 countries as part
   of the Gallup World Poll. Participants were asked about their internet access
   and use as well as eight different measures of wellbeing, such as life
   satisfaction, social life, purpose in life and feelings of community
   wellbeing. The team analyzed data from 2006 to 2021, encompassing about 2.4
   million participants aged 15 and above. The researchers employed more than
   33,000 statistical models, allowing them to explore various possible
   associations while taking into account factors that could influence them,
   such as income, education, health problems and relationship status. The
   results reveal that internet access, mobile internet access and use generally
   predicted higher measures of the different aspects of wellbeing, with 84.9%
   of associations between internet connectivity and wellbeing positive, 0.4%
   negative and 14.7% not statistically significant. The study was not able to
   prove cause and effect, but the team found measures of life satisfaction were
   8.5% higher for those who had internet access. Nor did the study look at the
   length of time people spent using the internet or what they used it for,
   while some factors that could explain associations may not have be
   considered. Przybylski said it was important that policy on technology was
   evidence-based and that the impact of any interventions was tracked. Read
   more of this story at Slashdot.

 * 
   Cruise Is Back Driving Autonomously After Pedestrian-Dragging Incident
   by BeauHD on 14/05/2024 at 7:00 am
   
   Cruise's autonomous vehicles have resumed operation in Phoenix, Arizona,
   following an incident in San Francisco last October where a driverless
   vehicle dragged a pedestrian. The Verge reports: Cruise spokesperson Tiffany
   Testo said the company is deploying only two autonomous vehicles with safety
   drivers behind the wheel. In addition, the company has eight manually driven
   vehicles in the city. Eventually, the service area will "gradually expand" to
   include Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, and Chandler --
   "measured against predetermined safety benchmarks." Cruise's slow return to
   the road is noteworthy, given the huge hurdles facing the company in the wake
   of the October incident. Regulators accused the company of misleading them
   about the nature and severity of the incident, in which a pedestrian was
   dragged over 20 feet by a driverless Cruise after first being struck by a
   hit-and-run driver. Several top executives have since left the company,
   including founder and CEO Kyle Vogt, and around a quarter of employees were
   laid off. GM has said it will reduce its spending on Cruise. And an outside
   report found evidence that a culture of antagonism toward regulators
   contributed to many of the failings. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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