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Wizards Get Creative, Maybe Save the World

While it’s not normal Hackaday fare, we’ve covered the Dungeons & Dragons licensing kerfuffle, partially because we’re all nerds at heart, and also because it’s worrying that an Open Source styled license could be “deauthorized”. I did touch base with the Open Source Initiative, and got a telling comment that this issue was outside their

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South Korea’s K-pop industry is embracing the metaverse, expanding on commonplace virtual counterparts for artists, including by creating the virtual band Mave (New York Times)

New York Times: South Korea’s K-pop industry is embracing the metaverse, expanding on commonplace virtual counterparts for artists, including by creating the virtual band Mave  —  In the world’s testing ground for tech, K-pop singers are being spun up out of pixels and doing battle in a virtual universe.

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A profile of Jonathan Kanter, the DOJ’s assistant AG for antitrust, a longtime Google foe who filed the US anti-monopoly lawsuit to break up its ad business (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jonathan Kanter, the DOJ’s assistant AG for antitrust, a longtime Google foe who filed the US anti-monopoly lawsuit to break up its ad business  —  Jonathan Kanter is a longtime legal adversary to the internet company  —  Watch: Garland Announces Lawsuit Against Google for Antitrust Violations

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, the first appearance by a TikTok CEO before Congress (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, the first appearance by a TikTok CEO before Congress  —  Republicans are expected to use hearing to highlight security and privacy concerns over video app  —  TikTok Offers More Transparency

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Google blew it with open source layoffs

Google has made impressive inroads against cloud leader AWS by aggressively open sourcing projects such as TensorFlow and Kubernetes. It’s true AWS makes more money than Google (or anyone else) by operationalizing this open source code, but Google’s open source strategy continues to deliver impressive dividends. To read this article in full, please click here

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After layoffs, Meta, which used remote work during the pandemic to advance its diversity goals, now faces an uphill battle to continue making progress with DEI (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: After layoffs, Meta, which used remote work during the pandemic to advance its diversity goals, now faces an uphill battle to continue making progress with DEI  —  Brit Levy, 35, was eager to join Meta’s paid training program for aspiring human resources managers last year because she wanted …

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The US’ Berman amendments, passed during the Cold War to protect the free flow of content between the US and hostile countries, may complicate a TikTok ban (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: The US’ Berman amendments, passed during the Cold War to protect the free flow of content between the US and hostile countries, may complicate a TikTok ban  —  Decades-old measures protect free flow of content internationally, even with hostile nations  —  How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company

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The memory-chip sector, known for boom-and-bust cycles, is facing one if its worst-ever routs, as inventory glut and a fight for marketshare has cratered prices (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The memory-chip sector, known for boom-and-bust cycles, is facing one if its worst-ever routs, as inventory glut and a fight for marketshare has cratered prices  —  This time was supposed to be different.  —  The memory-chip sector, famous for its boom-and-bust cycles, had changed its ways.

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