LinkedIn is preparing to switch on generative-AI training that draws from European members’ data, setting November 3, 2025 as the go-live date. The company says it will rely on “legitimate interests” as its legal basis and will offer an opt-out so members can refuse use of their data for training—promising that private messages are excluded. The change applies across the EU/EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Qualified candidates struggle in a sluggish market due to Trump tariffs, AI screening and vanishing entry-level roles***

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on Tuesday that the US added 911,000 fewer jobs than first estimated for the year to March 2025, highlighting already heightened concerns about the health of the labor market.

The news followed a lackluster August jobs report, with only 22,000 jobs added in the US. That report noted that 13,000 jobs were lost for the month of June 2025, the first negative jobs report survey since December 2020, the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate increased to 4.3%, the highest rate since 2021.

Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of labor statistics, was fired by Trump after a weak job’s report in July, which the president claimed, without evidence, was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”.

Invidious link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_jcKmywlYBM

Lawyers have accused the German government and arms firms of aiding and abetting Israel's genocide in Gaza

An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

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Basically: In some countries, the pledge is with the constitution or the people, but in others (like constitutional monarchies), its a pledge to the (constitutional) monarch and their successors.

What is your opinion on this loyalty pledge? Do you believe it's a reasonable request?

(For context: My mother and older brother had to do the pledge to gain [US] citizenship so the idea of deportation isn't looming over our heads. I didn't have do it because I was under 18 and my mother's citizenship status automatically carried over to me according to the law.)

It's good if you want the bulletproofness and archiving accuracy of archive.today, but don't want Google spying on you (archive.today requires you to complete a recaptcha challenge every time you want to archive a web page and your cookies expired).

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37869574

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37869574

• Reddit— Private front-end.