Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:How effective altruism, championed by SBF before he dismissed it as a dodge, and doomsday scenarios, like killer rogue AI, became Silicon Valley obsessions — Sonia Joseph was 14 years old when she first read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a mega-popular piece of fan […]
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Threat actors are using advanced malware to backdoor business-grade routers
Hiatus hacking campaign has infected roughly 100 Draytek routers.
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The Download: how to log off, and the future of energy
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to log off As soon as I wake up, I grab my phone to check any messages that have arrived overnight and thumb through news alerts before […]
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Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, after it eliminated 13%, or 11,000 jobs in November 2023 in its first major layoff (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, after it eliminated 13%, or 11,000 jobs in November 2023 in its first major layoff — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of […]
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LG CS 65-inch OLED TV review
LG’s CS OLED TV manages to keep costs down by marrying old and new to mostly good effect.
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Internal docs appear to show execs at Eco, a personal finance app offering 2.5%-5% in “APY rewards”, misrepresenting the risks of its lending practices to users (Jason Mikula/Fintech Business Weekly)
Jason Mikula / Fintech Business Weekly:Internal docs appear to show execs at Eco, a personal finance app offering 2.5%-5% in “APY rewards”, misrepresenting the risks of its lending practices to users — a16z- and Thiel-Backed Startup’s Future Uncertain As It Loses Bank Partner, Pays User Interest With Own Funds
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Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Mobile Workstation Review
A mobile workstation that is sure to knock out any task you may have – and then some.
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AI-powered Bing Chat gains three distinct personalities
Bing Chat is no longer unhinged, but it can hallucinate more if you want it to.
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The Download: how ChatGPT was made, and a boost for infertility treatment
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it When OpenAI launched ChatGPT, with zero fanfare, in late November 2022, nobody inside the […]
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Investor letter: Multicoin Capital’s hedge fund lost 91.4% in 2022; in November it said 10% of assets were stuck on FTX and it had exposure to FTT, SOL, and SRM (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)
Tracy Wang / CoinDesk:Investor letter: Multicoin Capital’s hedge fund lost 91.4% in 2022; in November it said 10% of assets were stuck on FTX and it had exposure to FTT, SOL, and SRM — The fund’s performance was severely impacted by direct exposure to now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and holdings […]