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Residencies, fellowships, grants, open calls, and jobs from Banff Centre, Tusen Takk, UC Davis, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.

Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.

Also, how Austin is attempting to build more affordable housing.

Food delivery robots may be doing a lot more than dropping food off, as new reporting shows that it has become friendly with law enforcement.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to gain new power with latest proposed amendments, panel discussion on biometrics use in migration control, and more.

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By Brian Fung, Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN On Thursday, the software company Kaseya announced that it could help unlock any of its customers’ systems that were still inaccessible following a devastating ransomware attack early this month that took down as many as 1,500 businesses worldwide. But for many victims it was too little, too late. Kaseya had obtained a decryption key, the company said, that could release any file still locked down by malicious software produced by the cr...

); //]]>//--> By John P. Mello Jr. Jun 2, 2021 4:00 AM PT More than 25 million work-from-home jobs could be created in non-technology industries in the coming years, according to the operator of a global marketplace for freelance workers. "For the first time, companies in industries like manufacturing, agriculture and mining recognized that many of their professional services jobs did not need to be done on-site," maintained Upwork in its "Not Just Tech: Remote Freelancing Across Industries" re...

Tay Cities Deal signed From: 17 December 2020 The Tay Cities Deal reached a major milestone today [17th December 2020] when UK Government Minister Iain Stewart joined partners for an online ceremony to ratify the implementation and financial arrangements for £700 million investment in the region. The deal is an agreement between the UK and Scottish governments along with Angus, Dundee City, Fife and Perth & Kinross councils as well as partners in the business and higher and further educati...