Image: Dennis Diatel (Shutterstock) It’s a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp. Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, says it’s cutting about 28% of its staff. Hands-On With Meta Quest 3 Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced the layoffs Monday in a blog post, explaining … Read more
Headlines This Week A new report from Politico suggests a “billionaire-backed network” of Silicon Valley-linked AI “advisors” are working to control the regulatory agenda in Washington D.C. Boy, I sure wish stuff like that were illegal instead of just business-as-usual. Despite apparently having lobbying money aplenty, it looks like the AI industry is still struggling … Read more
Image: rafapress (Shutterstock) Google says it will defend users in a legal setting if copyright issues arise with their generative artificial intelligence. It joins the ranks of other big tech players who have done the same. “Put simply: if customers are challenged on copyright grounds, we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks involved,” … Read more
Photo: jamesonwu1972 (Shutterstock) Silicon Valley has bet big on generative AI but it’s not totally clear whether that bet will pay off. A new report from the Wall Street Journal claims that, despite the endless hype around large language models and the automated platforms they power, tech companies are struggling to turn a profit when … Read more
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke considers AI and software program improvement to now be inextricably linked, powered by assistive instruments equivalent to Copilot and its related Copilot Chat, which the Microsoft-owned firm expanded to particular person GitHub subscribers as we speak. However talking on stage at TC Disrupt as we speak, Dohmke maintained that the snowballing AI … Read more
You’ve heard the recommendation for years: Activate two-factor authentication all over the place it’s supplied. It’s lengthy been clear that utilizing solely a username and password to safe digital accounts isn’t sufficient. However layering on a further authentication “issue”—like a randomly generated code or a bodily token—makes the keys to your kingdom a lot more … Read more
marian/Getty Pictures It wasn’t that way back that the concept of utilizing AI for growth was science fiction. Then, alongside got here GitHub Copilot, Microsoft’s AI pair-programming service, in the summertime of 2022. Then, in November 2023, ChatGPT 3.5 appeared, and everybody bought enthusiastic about AI. However, you already knew that. You may not know … Read more
It was the spring of 2016, and I used to be within the Oval Workplace, ready to interview for a job. Solely I wasn’t in Washington, DC. I used to be on the headquarters of GitHub, a code internet hosting platform, in San Francisco, sitting inside an ideal, full-size reproduction of the workplace of the … Read more