GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization
once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagalkote / Benzinga : Mi...
Memo: Indeed and Glassdoor, both owned by Recruit, will cut ~1,300 US jobs as part of an AI-focused consolidation; Glassdoor's operations will merge into Indeed
Bet they won't cut the costs for businesses to list with them though... [embedded post] Orynthia Blue / @javeauriel : And another thing. I hate how everything is a social network. I went on Glassdo...
Source: Activision took down Call of Duty: WWII after hackers exploited a flaw in a specific PC version, which led to some players having their computers hacked
Campaign Mode: Incident Commander — Multiplayer Mode: Everyone's On Call — DLC: Zero-Day at Dawn [embedded post] Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: We confirmed that Activision took...
AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi
here's what you need to know Alex Perry / Mashable : AT&T's new Wireless Account Lock can protect you from SIM swapping Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : AT&T rolls out “Wireless Lock” feature to b...
Sources: Apple is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19 that analyzes how a person uses their phone and makes adjustments to conserve energy
LOL — You don't “push” engineers to not ship bugs. If you want engineers to not ship bugs, you've got to STOP PUSHING them to ship stuff. … X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : Besides the AI additions a...
OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why
OpenAI's internal tests show o3 hallucinated on 33% of person-related questions, double the rate of previous models. Even worse, o4-mini hit 48%. Mastodon: Aulia Masna / @aulia@mementomori.social : “...
Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it
apnews.com/article/irs-... Representative Seth Magaziner / @magaziner.house.gov : So instead of using technology to make government more efficient, DOGE is canceling technology to make big corporation...
Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do
Better no security than a false sense of one. Ari Cohn / @aricohn.com : Apple's UK user data is now more vulnerable. It's not Apple's fault; they're PROTECTING users by not giving a false sense of se...
In an AMA, Steve Huffman says Reddit is planning to roll out paid subreddits in 2025 and is “laying the foundation” to monetize commerce within subreddits
https://arstechnica.com/... Forums: r/RDDT : AM(A)A Video: Reddit's Q4 2024 Earnings r/Futurology : Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | How will Reddit generate conte...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams “significantly”
Market: WE LOVE AI, DO AI THING — META: Sure thing, ploughing $40bn into capex this year — Market: wait not like that — First time we've seen a negative market reaction to the reality of AI unit...