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New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection reached a settlement requiring DoorDash to pay $131.5 million after an investigation into late, missing, or miscalculated payments to delivery workers. More than 260,000 workers will share over $115 million, with the remainder covering civil penalties and disputed pay for time Dashers spent online awaiting deliveries.
DoorDash has settled with New York City after an investigation found delivery workers were underpaid or paid late. Under the agreement, more than 260,000 workers will receive over $115 million, part of a broader $131.5 million settlement with the city.
Cloudflare announced that Python Workers, the runtime it introduced two years ago to run Python code on its edge network, is now generally available. Developers can use existing Python code and popular frameworks like FastAPI, Django, and Flask, and connect them to Cloudflare services such as Workers AI, R2, D1, Hyperdrive, Durable Objects, Queues, and Workflows.
A developer known as MAAN built a browser-based demo that reimplements Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering network using WebGPU compute shaders, hosted on Cloudflare Workers with adjustable settings and sample scenes. The port reportedly works on non-Nvidia GPUs and even macOS, using roughly 147MB of extracted model weights alongside a small JavaScript runtime, though each rendered frame currently takes one to two seconds. MAAN says the weights came from a leaked DLSS 5 library file and plans to release the source code on GitHub soon.
Amazon has raised the minimum hourly wage for its frontline warehouse staff by $1, bringing starting pay to $20 an hour just as the company enters its busiest shopping period. The change affects hundreds of thousands of workers across its fulfillment network.
Amazon announced it is boosting the base hourly wage for its full-time U.S. operations employees, including warehouse workers, by $1 to $20 per hour. The change takes effect on September 27. The company also said it is expanding employee discounts alongside the pay bump.
Work For America launched as a career-matching platform aimed at helping federal employees who lost their jobs transition into state and local government positions. The service has since expanded to welcome all job seekers, including those with no prior public sector experience, functioning much like a LinkedIn tailored specifically to government careers.
Nature's science-fiction feature Futures ran a short story depicting numbered workers confined to a windowless facility, sedated with pills and coffee, weaving filaments under fluorescent light while elders recall a vanished world of trees. The piece imagines a future where natural landscapes have been erased and human labor is mechanized, monitored, and chemically controlled.
Transforma Insights projects the number of automated urban delivery vehicles will jump from 28,000 in 2025 to 559,000 by 2035. The forecasted growth raises concerns about gig worker displacement at companies like Uber Eats and DoorDash, even as current robots' roughly two-mile range keeps human drivers necessary for now. Meanwhile, weak oversight—including over 20 states classifying these devices as pedestrians—is prompting cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and Toronto to impose restrictions or bans.
As artificial intelligence enables more sophisticated cyberattacks, companies are increasingly turning to experienced cybersecurity professionals to defend their systems rather than entry-level staff. Industry observers warn this trend could create a long-term skills gap if younger workers aren't given opportunities to develop expertise in parallel.
A GAO analysis found that over 12,300 Amazon workers across 11 states now receive SNAP food assistance, with another 11,338 relying on Medicaid, numbers that have nearly tripled since 2020. This surge in public assistance use coincided with Amazon's annual profits jumping from $11.6 billion to $77.7 billion over the same period.
Roughly 1,900 developers and staff at Blizzard have voted to ratify a labor contract with Microsoft, formalizing terms for one of the largest unionized groups in the video game industry. The agreement follows Microsoft's earlier pledge of neutrality toward unionization efforts across its gaming divisions after acquiring Activision Blizzard.