Two of Slack’s original eight employees have spent more than two years blogging Slack’s history, one post at a time, and their newest post fills in the part of the Salesforce story outsiders never saw. “About” describes Building Slack as a project by Ali Rayl and Johnny Rodgers, and “Salesforce – Part Two”, published October … Read more
T-Mobile is launching new “T-Mix” plans that bundle wireless service with subscriptions to services like Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, device promotions, and more, as reported earlier by Fierce Network. The Standard plan starts at $55 / month (with autopay) for one line and one “Pick,” which you can change up … Read more
Hiring one mechanical, electrical or embedded engineer takes roughly 40 hours of senior engineering time across phone screens, take-home reviews and onsite interviews, according to Colare, the San Francisco startup that raised a $2.5 million pre-seed round from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures . The company launched publicly the same day with simulation-based … Read more
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra was blighted by some nuisance bugs at launch, but now the company has released some new firmware to resolve them. The October 22nd release addresses three notable issues in particular: screen flickering, unexpected restarts, and lengthy reboot times alongside unspecified “additional bug fixes and general performance improvements,” according to Microsoft’s announcement. … Read more
More than half of all web traffic in 2024 wasn’t human. The Imperva bad bot report found that automated traffic overtook people for the first time in a decade, and a meaningful share of that automation spends its time clicking, loading, and “viewing” ads that were never meant for an actual person. That’s invalid traffic, … Read more
Pulling an open-source model, starting a server, and getting an answer to your prompt should take less than 30 minutes. In half an hour or so, you’ve got yourself a prompt-ready machine. But, send 10k+ requests a day to the same inference server, and you won’t be so pleased with its performance. The difference between … Read more
The Remarkable Paper Pro Move is essentially a digital notepad, with a skinny 7.3-inch E Ink screen that’s easy to hold one-handed to jot down notes or ideas. At $449 new, it’s not exactly cheap, but buying refurbished is a way to save, as always. Remarkable itself offers the refurbished Paper Pro Move for that … Read more
Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.
The new iPad mini features a thinner and lighter design than its predecessor.
Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.
Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork, but he and friend of the show Casey Newton just left the … Read more
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Anthropic has filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, preparing the company behind Claude to beat OpenAI to the punch with an IPO. In a filing with the SEC, Anthropic said it plans to list on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “ANT.” The AI company confidentially filed with the SEC … Read more
A computer running COBOL 73, an antiquated computer programming language, awaits taxpayer information entries at the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Tx., on Friday, June 10, 2022. | Image: Getty Images What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They’re all running on systems propped up by antique … Read more
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Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger, 8.5-inch OLED display. The company revealed the new device just days before its “Pro and tell” event on Wednesday. The iPad Mini starts at $699 for the Wi-Fi-only model, and $849 for Wi-Fi and cellular. At 5.4mm thick, the iPad Mini is thinner and lighter than … Read more
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Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla’s FSD software.
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It was about to be a long night in Huntington, West Virginia. Mayor Patrick Farrell stood before 10 members of city council in a white dress shirt and dark blazer studded with an American flag pin. Behind him sat his constituents and residents from neighboring towns. Some had their arms crossed, while others held a … Read more
A package appears in a registry. The name looks familiar. The version number is plausible. The install script runs before anyone reads the code. That’s not a vulnerability. That’s a trap. Software Composition Analysis was initially invented as a way of detecting any existing CVEs present within packages. This task remains critical for ensuring application … Read more
A realistic phishing simulation should resemble a decision the employee might actually face. A payroll change is relevant to HR. An unfamiliar repository invitation fits an engineering workflow. A supplier’s payment request matters to finance. Realism depends on the request, the recipient’s responsibilities and the safe action they are expected to take. This shortlist compares … Read more
A website can reveal very little about its operator while still carrying the advertising infrastructure that helps it earn revenue. For investigators examining a domain that rehosts content or is suspected of fraud, that infrastructure offers another place to look when the site itself provides few useful ownership details. Advertising identifiers, the identifying values associated … Read more
Building a Bible app taught us a fundamental product truth: pure software is passive—it waits for you to open it. But life, anxiety, and physiological stress happen in real time. Here is why we built a smart ring to bridge that gap. An app on its own is inherently passive: it has to wait for … Read more