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Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
The latest news, updates, and stories from Waymo.
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Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
We believe that this change allows our community and users to have the same core freedoms of free and open source software that they have enjoyed since the inception of Grafana Labs and encourages third parties to also contribute back.
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Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
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Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.
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LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces
Find the LEGO Group press releases, latest company news, product announcements and assets at the LEGO® Newsroom.
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SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog2020676 points384 commentscited by 3Security & Privacy details
As we said in our recent blog , we believe the Solorigate incident is an opportunity to work together in important ways, to share information, strengthen defenses and respond to attacks. Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of the Solorigate actor and want to share an update…
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The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
Today's release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions...
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The China Cultural Clash
The NBA controversy in China highlights a culture clash that both tech companies and the U.S. government need to take to heart. Plus, why Tiktok being Chinese is increasingly a problem.
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Why I Work on Ads
"I work on ads at Google" "Can I ask why? I honestly can't understand how anyone could." Someone recently asked me why I work on ads, and I wanted to write up something more thorough than my comment. (Despite being a work topic this is a personal post and I'm speaking only for myself.) One answer is that I'm earning…
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My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR
Startups are hard, bootstrapping is harder! Here's how I bootstrapped a SaaS product to $10k MRR over the course of 2 years.
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I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
Update: Amazon changed Glacier pricing on 21 December 2016, about 11 months after this was originally posted. The “gotcha” pricing…
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De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Top dollar no more? Discover the factors threatening the dominance of the world’s reserve currency and how this is playing out across markets.
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The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
To reach its potential, Apple needs to recognize they have made profound conceptual mistakes in the iPad user interface, mistakes that need to be scrapped and replaced, not polished and refined. I worry that iPadOS 13 suggests the opposite — that Apple is steering the iPad full speed ahead down a blind alley.
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Winning the Blackbird Battle
We’re happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision dismissing the case brought by Blackbird Tech. This is the last step in the process, we’ve won.
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How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
I've been comparing notes with people who run corporate engineering blogs and one thing that I think is curious is that it's pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it's not uncommon for my blog to get an order of…
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Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those around you when that's what's happening. There's not much uglier than trying to tear someone down because they
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
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Building a data team at a mid-stage startup
You are brought into a startup to run their three-person data team. This is a story about teams and organization, and how you spend a year getting the team to a good place.
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Mistral Large
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the…
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Buffer Layoffs
Some tough news: Buffer has made 10 layoffs, 11% of the team. We want to share openly how we got here, the financial details and how we’re moving forward.
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A Difficult Situation
Explore the latest company news, product updates, technical tutorials, and best practices from Twilio, the industry-leading customer engagement platform.