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Google appears to have learned a lesson from 2023, when its layoffs of 12,000 people, or 6.4% of its workforce, became big news and sparked anger among employees used to its cushy culture. In the past 18 months or so, Google has made a series of smaller cuts, mostly at the scale of âhundreds of peopleâ each time, according to news reports in The Information and elsewhere. These have occurred across the company: in ad sales, hardware, engineering and Google Assistant, Google Cloud, the X Moonshot unit andâon
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JerryRigEverything peeled the REDMAGIC 11 Pro to reveal what might be the coolest liquid cooling system we've ever seen. Read more âș
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In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said the payments would be for all but "high income people." Read more âș
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Former President Trump's comments on tariffs spurred interest in speculative assets, boosting meme coin sentiment. Read more âș
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Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers. Read more âș
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The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues "the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility. "In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI." "I write about artificial intelligence a lot, and lately I have begun to think of myself as writing for Al as... Read more âș
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The games we enjoy today would be unimaginably different without the improvements ushered in by DirectX 8 and its programmable shaders. Shader Model 1.0 introduced per-pixel programmable lighting, letting developers write custom code to control how light interacted with objects, rather than relying solely on the GPUâs built-in fixed-function logic. Read more âș
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Trump Mobile announced the T1 Phone this summer with a fall release date, but paying customers still haven't gotten their hands on the device. Read more âș
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Trump says he will use tariff revenue to send $2,000 checks to Americans. While most would welcome the infusion, it could cost them in the long run. Read more âș
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A former Intel software engineer who spent over a decade with the company allegedly stole several thousand documents, including confidential ones, after he was laid off. Read more âș
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YouTube TV is now offering subscribers $20 in bill credits for missing Disney channels. Read more âș
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Fast-food chains like McDonald's and Wendy's are tweaking some bills in the absence of pennies, rounding them up or down to the nearest nickel. Read more âș
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"It's not work, because people come up, and say they feel so sorry," Jay Leno said. Read more âș
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"A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years," reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape "has a pretty good chance of being recoverable." Long-time Slashdot reader bobdevine says the tape will be analyzed at the Computer History Museum. More from The Register: The... Read more âș
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After a high-stakes meeting, Tesla investors voted to approve Musk's $1 trillion proposed compensation plan that is contingent on lofty goals. Read more âș
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YouTube TV has notified subscribers that a $20 credit is heading their way in light of its ongoing standoff with Disney, which has resulted in numerous channels going dark on the platform, including ESPN, ABC News and Disney Channel. In an email to subscribers, the YouTube TV Team said subscribers should expect to see an email in the coming days about the credit, which will be applied to their next... Read more âș
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Some 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits, but payments have become shrouded in uncertainty amid the ongoing government shutdown. Read more âș
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An AMD BC-250 mining board powered by the PS5âs custom APU has reappeared in China for around $120. Read more âș
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Much of La Ola Interior (Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990) sounds shockingly contemporary for a collection of tracks recorded in the mid to late '80s. Ambient as a genre was already relatively well established by the time many of the artists on this compilation recorded their songs. But as we neared the end of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Norwayâs sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Teslaâs proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was âconcerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.â The ... Read more âș
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Before we get to todayâs column, OpenAI is continuing its trend of diversifying its cloud compute providers away from Microsoft. Monday morning, the ChatGPT maker announced that it has signed a seven-year, $38 billion cloud deal with Amazon Web Services. OpenAI will immediately start using compute from AWS, with the goal to deploy all capacity before the end of next year, with the option to use even more compute into... Read more âș
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Decagon, which develops AI for automating customer service, is discussing raising equity funding from new investors at a valuation of $4 billion to $5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The discussions come just five months after the company announced financing at a $1.5 billion valuation. The deal discussions suggest investor interest is still high for one of the most promising and increasingly crowded fields... Read more âș
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On a quiet September morning, Alex Leithiser was out in the woods somewhere in the South on a secret mission: to break into a data center. First, he slipped through a small gap in the facilityâs barbed wire fence, and as soon as he hit the ground, he switched clothes, pulling a fresh set from a small backpack. With cameras and alarms all over the data center, Leithiser hoped to... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesnât want the government to bail them out if the company fails. âIf we screw up and canât fix it, we should fail, and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers,â Altman said in an X post on Thursday. Altman also said that OpenAI ... Read more âș
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Iâve been hearing a lot about how intense competition is for Series A investments lately. Investors that typically look to invest in more mature startups, say at the Series B or above rounds, are crowding into Series A rounds for fear of missing the next major winner.Like much else these days, artificial intelligence gets the credit (or blame) for this new dynamic. Venture capitalists are watching revenues triple or quadruple... Read more âș
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Weâve finally learned the result of a controversial, long-awaited vote thatâs generated reams of punditry and put Wall Street on edge. No, Iâm not talking about the mayoral election in New York CityâIâm talking about the Tesla shareholder vote on Elon Muskâs gigantic compensation package. Musk won with over 75% of the vote, Tesla said at its annual meeting at the companyâs Gigafactory in Texas on Thursday. The package will... Read more âș
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The White House has told others in the federal government it wonât allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, despite President Donald Trumpâs hints over the summer that he might allow the company to do so, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The decision is a major blow to the AI chip giant, which has seen its revenue from China shrivel this year... Read more âș
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said Wednesday that government guarantees for financing artificial intelligence chips could help the U.S. stay competitive globally. âWeâre looking for an ecosystem of banks, private equity, maybe even governmental, the ways governments can come to bear,â she said at a ... Read more âș
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Before Sequoia Capitalâs leader Roelof Botha announced he was stepping down from the position, partners Alfred Lin, Pat Grady and Andrew Reed came to him to talk about his time at the firm. Botha had only held the top-most job at the firm for three years, taking over from long-time leader Doug Leone just as startup valuations were convulsing from a historic series of rate hikes. Botha, after talking to... Read more âș
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