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Apple fires senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly leaking information

The Verge

Apple has fired senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly violating the company’s rules against leaking confidential information. Gjøvik has raised concerns that her office is in an Apple building located on a superfund site, meaning it requires special oversight due to historical waste contamination.

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Apple Fires Program Manager Who Accused Bosses of Harassment, Intimidation

Gizmodo

labor board charging her employer, Apple, with unlawful retaliation. Not two weeks ago, Ashley Gjøvik filed a complaint with the U.S. She’d become too vocal, she said, about her experiences with sexism and concerns about safety in the workplace. The company wanted her stopped. Read more.

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Apple just fired a leader of the #AppleToo movement

The Verge

Apple has fired Janneke Parrish, a leader of the #AppleToo movement, amid a broad crackdown on leaks and worker organizing. Gjøvik has filed multiple charges with the NLRB related to how Apple treated her and the broader workforce. Parrish and Cher Scarlett, an Apple software engineer, then began sharing these stories on Medium.

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Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple

The Verge

The company has taken a strong stance on safeguarding its customers’ data — but some employees don’t believe it protects theirs Jacob Preston was sitting down with his manager during his first week at Apple when he was told, with little fanfare, that he needed to link his personal Apple ID and work account.

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Fired #AppleToo Activist Files Labor Charge Against Apple

Gizmodo

National Labor Relations Board, claiming Apple fired her in retaliation for organizing, according to documents seen by Reuters. The charge brought by former Apple Maps program manager Janneke Parrish swells the total count of… Read more.

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Microsoft is (mostly) killing off Flash at the end of 2020

TechSpot

Back in July 2017, Microsoft, Adobe, and other tech giants, including Facebook, Apple, and Google, announced that Flash would no longer be supported after 2020. Now, Microsoft program manager Suchithra Gopinath writes that the company is dropping support for Flash Player in Edge, Edge Legacy, and Internet Explorer on December 31, 2020.

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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

The Verge

This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off,” says Brandon LeBlanc, senior program manager for Windows, in a statement to The Verge. While the ads might have appeared for some Windows 11 users, Microsoft says it was a mistake.

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