2025-02-26
Apple Shareholders Resoundingly Reject Proposal to Ditch the Company’s ‘Inclusion and Diversity’ Policies; Trump Responds With His Usual Equanimity
Michael Liedtke, reporting for the AP: Apple shareholders rebuffed an attempt to pressure the technology trendsetter into joining President Donald Trump’s push to scrub corporate programs designed to diversify its...
Now That Trump Has Banished the Woke From Science, This Truth-Telling New Scientific Paper Reveals What COVID Vaccines Actually Do to Children
Now that the Trump administration has hailed a victory over "woke" science and installed a prominent vaccine skeptic as the new leader of the Department of Health and Human Services,...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI In Content Production: A Friend, Not Foe? (2/26/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 26, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
Your Playbook to Choose the Right Network Security Solution
Properly evaluating network security solutions is critical to mitigating risks, optimizing costs, and ensuring scalability. Define objectives, conduct thorough research, and evaluate technical and vendor capabilities. Key steps include a...
System Design Interview for (Technical) PMs: How to Ace It
If you're vying for a technical PM role, you're going to encounter the System Design Interview. And even some PMs will. Here's the concepts, frameworks, and examples you need to...
Dark Mark Appears on Trump's Hand
Septuagenarian president Donald Trump isn't the strong and virile world leader the White House likes to portray him as. While receiving a visit from French president Emmanuel Macron at the...
How AI Agents Are Shaping Web3: Key Insights from Top Voices in Web3
Discover how AI agents are reshaping Web3 with insights from C-level executives at COTI and Fuse.
The Power of Data Visualization for Tech Companies. Is Your Strategy Up to Par?
Data visualization is still numbers, but easier to understand. Numbers shown as visuals help you immediately spot patterns, outliers, or even potential issues before they snowball. Digital signage software like...
What do you do after you accidentally kill a child? This is...
What do you do after you accidentally kill a child? This is wonderfully written….but also very hard to read. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Its Loathsome AI Overviews
Google is being sued by Chegg — yes, the online homework guys — over its infamously shoddy AI Overviews, Reuters reports. In a lawsuit filed Monday, Chegg accused the tech...
DOGE: What Can Be Done?
Illustration and Charts by Shira Seri LeviNo Mercy / No MaliceI’ve struggled my entire career to discern the difference between being right and being effective. A recent poll shows many...
The "Fraud" Fraud
How DOGE destroys
Podcast: The Rise of AI Book Ripoffs
A rip off summary of Joseph's book, an AI startup dehumanizing workers; and a very particular AI video of Musk and Trump.
Why Boring Software Migration Projects Could Be Your Secret Weapon
Migration projects are inherently hard because they meet an existing bar on availability, scale, latency, and customer experience. The most boring part is that existing customers are not supposed to...
AI Hype Will Plunge America Into Financial Ruin, Economist Warns
What hasn't been said about artificial intelligence? It's a disruptor, a game changer, the next technological revolution. Soon we'll all be living large with our feet up while our AI...
Elon Musk, Welfare Queen
Illustration and Charts by Shira Seri LeviNo Mercy / No MaliceThis past weekend, Elon Musk called me cruel, mean and deceitful. Two and half years ago I called him a...
[X] THE LYDIAN STONE DU JOUR
x.com/nntaleb/status/1894412822198575337 THE LYDIAN STONE DU JOURExtracting regression hacking, how much pseudoregression points are expected from m trials.Next, will get p-hacking. The post [X] THE LYDIAN STONE DU JOUR appeared first...
Language Models and the Illusion of Understanding
This review challenges the idea that LLMs are mere linguistic mimics, presenting evidence of their advanced capabilities. However, fully understanding their learning processes and internal mechanisms remains an open challenge....
The Secret Psychology of Charismatic People—And 15 Hacks for Faking It
Being a great conversationalist requires a combination of mindset and methods. Here, I will cover how to *steal* a conversation while appearing magnanimous. I will also apply economic concepts to...
Transmission of cultural knowledge and linguistic scaffolding
Humans advance knowledge through cultural transmission, a process AI may partially emulate. While LLMs demonstrate task generalization, their ability to explain, contextualize, and contribute to cumulative learning remains limited. Future...
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