It’s not just corporate employees leaving over the company’s aggressive return-to-office policy that Amazon has to worry about. Workers at seven of its facilities walked off the job this morning in what their union is calling the ”largest strike” against Amazon in US history.

According to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents 10,000 workers at ten Amazon facilities, warehouse workers in cities including New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco are taking part in the strike.

Faceoff: Inside the NHL, the Prime Video docuseries that delves into the personal and professional lives of the NHL’s best players, will return for a six-episode second season in 2025, it was announced Thursday.

Produced by Box to Box and NHL Productions, it will be available in the fall to more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

One or more backup bugs in macOS 15.2 Sequoia is affecting Apple’s own Time Machine utility, as well as third-party apps SuperDuper and CarbonCopyCloner.

Initially the problem appeared to affect bootable backups only, but it now appears that it is either more general than this, or there is more than one bug affecting Mac backups …

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) spending bill has just been release and it grants DJI a year’s grace before it’s potentially banned in the US, The Verge reported. It was expected that DJI and rival Autel could be banned by the end of 2024 because of the Countering CCP Drones Act provision. However, the bill gives DJI an extra year to prove to an ”appropriate national security agency” that its products don’t pose a national security risk in the US.

There’s no arguing that AI still has quite a few unreliable moments, but one would hope that at least its evaluations would be accurate. However, last week Google allegedly instructed contract workers evaluating Gemini not to skip any prompts, regardless of their expertise, TechCrunch reportsbased on internal guidance it viewed. Google shared a preview of Gemini 2.0 earlier this month.

Google reportedly instructed GlobalLogic, an outsourcing firm whose contractors evaluate AI-generated output, not to have reviewers skip prompts outside of their expertise. Previously, contractors could choose to skip any prompt that fell far out of their expertise — such as asking a doctor about laws. The guidelines had stated, ”If you do not have critical expertise (e.g. coding, math) to rate this prompt, please skip this task.”

iOS 18.2 comes with a lot of new features that are hard to miss, like the Mail redesign, new Image Playground app, and Genmoji. But there are also two new tools hidden inside the Settings app in iOS 18.2: you can add volume controls back to your iPhone’s Lock Screen, and also set maximum volume limits.