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Google has fired a Cloud engineer who interrupted Barak Regev, the managing director of its business in Israel, during a speech at an Israeli tech event in New York, according to CNBC. "I'm a Google software engineer and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance!" the engineer was seen and heard shouting in a video captured by freelance journalist Caroline Haskins that went viral online. While being dragged away by security — and amidst jeers from the audience — he continued talking and referenced…

, Reddit has been taking over control of subreddits that shut down to protest changes to the platform's API. The admin account u/ModCodeofConduct has taken sole charge of r/malefashionadvice, a community with more than 5.4 million subscribers. The subreddit in closing shop in mid-June to show opposition to . Other subreddits started allowing users to in protest. Third-party developers used the API to build thousands of apps that hook into Reddit. Many of their apps helped with moderation or accessibility. However,…

Jamie Sanchez, owner of The Drip Café, said he opened the coffee shop in the Santa Fe Arts District for a purpose. “Our parent company, Recycled God’s Love, has been helping the homeless since 2012,” said Sanchez, who formed the company with his late wife and his sister. “ is part of our project to provide jobs and funding for the homeless community coming out of homelessness.” Inside the cafe, Ephesians 4:32 is painted on the wall. “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave…

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has donated $50,000 (£43,500) to Republican Congressman Mike Garcia, it has been reported. The current midterm elections in America see Garcia go up against Democrat Christy Smith the race for a US House seat in California’s 27th congressional district – which includes part of Los Angeles. Polls are due to close at 8pm local time today (November 8), with the contest expected to go down to the wire. Per Kotaku, the election in 2020 saw Garcia defeat Smith by just 333 votes. According to Axios,…

Amazon has suspended at least 50 warehouse employees who refused to work their shifts following a trash compactor fire at one of its New York facilities, according to union organisers.The company suspended the workers, with pay, on Tuesday, a day after the fire disrupted operations at the Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this year.Derrick Palmer, the Vice President of the Amazon Labor Union, said day-shift workers were sent home with pay due to the fire, which began late afternoon Monday. But…