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eBay’s Online Card Marketplace TCGPlayer Forms Its Own Union
TCGPlayer, the popular marketplace responsible for handling shipments for card games, comics, and collectible trading cards, has unionized. This past Friday before the weekend started, a majority of its workers voted in favor of becoming the TCGUnion. Notably, this makes it the first group of employees to successfully…
Workers at trading card marketplace TCGplayer form eBay’s first union
The workers at eBay-owned TCGplayer, a marketplace for trading card games such as Magic: The Gathering, have voted in favor of joining a union. eBay purchased the company in 2022 for a deal valued up to $295 million, but the website continues to operate independently. Now that all 272 non-supervisory workers at the company’s authentication center in Syracuse, New York are represented by the Communications Workers of America, they’ve become the first group to form a union at eBay in the US.
The organized workers, who are responsible for ensuring the accuracy and quality of all shipments in and out of the company, filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board back in January. They wanted to unionize in a bid to have a voice within the company, and they were also seeking pay raises to account for inflation, a fair and comprehensive sick leave and absence policy, as well as inclusive career advancement opportunities, fair and transparent hiring practices, and clearly defined job roles and expectations.
In the CWA’s announcement of the union victory, it said TCGPlayer workers first tried to unionize in 2020. However, the company hired a union buster to “spread disinformation,” and the workers ultimately withdrew their petition for a vote due to the pandemic. While they were successful this time around, their employer reportedly tried to get them to back down again. CWA filed an unfair labor practice charge against the company in January for illegally surveilling union activity. It filed more charges just last week, accusing the company of threatening workers for supporting unionization efforts and forcing them to attend anti-union meetings, as well. The unionized workers are still waiting for the NLRB’s decision on those complaints.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/tcgplayer-workers-form-ebay-first-union-095615128.html?src=rss
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Ethereum NFT marketplace passes $1B in volume for first time since May as the creator royalties war heats up
The NFT market may be finding its footing again as the market on the Ethereum blockchain surpassed $1 billion for the first time since May 2022.
Ethereum NFT marketplace passes $1B in volume for first time since May as the creator royalties war heats up by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
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Microsoft is removing 46 games from the Xbox 360 Marketplace
Microsoft has announced a number titles and associated add-on content will be removed from the Xbox 360 Marketplace in a select set of regions per title.
The removals will start on February 7. Once purchased, you can always redownload the games or any other previously purchased games from your Xbox 360 Download History.
This will not affect the game if they are currently available on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S stores. Only the Xbox 360 Marketplace.
Extensions are Easily Impersonated in Microsoft’s VSCode Marketplace, Researchers Say
Unfortunately, InfoWorld reports, “Researchers at Aqua Nautilus say they have found that attackers could easily impersonate popular extensions and trick unknowing developers into downloading them.”
It can be challenging to distinguish between malicious and benign extensions, and the lack of sandbox capabilities means that extensions could install ransomware, wipers, and other malicious code, Aqua security researcher Ilay Goldman wrote in a January 6 blog post. [“In fact, it can access and even alter all the code that you have locally and even use your SSH key to change the code in all your organization’s repositories.”] VS Code extensions, which provide capabilities ranging from Python language support to JSON file editing, can be downloaded from Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
Aqua Nautilus uploaded an extension masquerading as the Prettier code formatter and saw more than 1,000 installs in less than 48 hours, from around the world. The spoof extension has been removed.
Goldman noted that the Visual Studio Code Marketplace runs a virus scan for each new extension and subsequent updates, and removes malicious extensions when it finds them. Users can report suspicious-looking extensions via a Report Abuse link.
“While the media is full of stories about malicious packages that have been uploaded to popular package managers such as NPM and PyPI, there is very little information about malicious VSCode extension,” the blog post notes. Yet it points out that a blue checkmark on a VSCode extension “merely means that whoever the publisher is has proven the ownership of a domain. That means any domain.”
And even Microsoft acknowledged to InfoWorld that social engineering techniques have been used to persuade victims to download malicious extensions — though they point out that Microsoft confirms that each extension has a Marketplace certificate and verifiable signature before being installed. “To help make informed decisions, we recommend consumers review information, such as domain verification, ratings and feedback to prevent unwanted downloads.”
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Korean handmade goods marketplace Backpackr gears up to expand into Southeast Asia
About a decade ago, Donghwan Kim helped his cousin, a ceramist, look for sales channels, like flea markets, to sell his ceramics. But they had a hard time locating a suitable platform, so after about a year, Kim decided to create a marketplace for handmade goods himself in South Korea called Backpackr. Today, Backpackr, which […]
Korean handmade goods marketplace Backpackr gears up to expand into Southeast Asia by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch