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A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one o…
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
I created The low-tech guys, a brand under which I develop macOS apps for a living. I started this business with a good friend of mine, thinking I could help him stop working long hours at his consulting job and ease into more creative work. However, getting to a state where you earn enough to live off the app sales…
Microsoft have fired most if not all of the team at id Software responsible for developing the idTech game engine during Xbox layoffs
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…
When Travis CI turned into a business with employees, one of our ideas was to not constrain people in how much time they take off for vacations. We didn’t track the days people were taking off, and as the people running the company, we didn’t actively encourage people to take times off. In short, we had an open…
Update 9/18: CCleaner Cloud version 1.07.3191 is also reported to be affected Update 9/19: This issue was discovered and reported by both Morphisec and Cisco in separate in-field cases and reported separately to Avast. Update 9/19: There has been some confusion on how the
Amazon announced this week that it’s increasing the price of Amazon Prime from $80 to $100 per year, its first price change since its introduction in 2005.
For the past two years, the Boston Basic Income YouTube channel has been live streaming our weekly discussion group as we explore…
Since 2018, Babel has been doing a funding experiment: can full time work on Babel be sustained? We've learned the answer might be no.
Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.
In their latest attempt to disrupt the iOS anti-ad tracking feature, Facebook has stooped to a new low
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Alaa Abdulridha — Engineering Director at SerpApi & Cybersecurity Researcher. Expert in web application penetration testing, reverse engineering, bug bounty programs, and secure code development. Passionate about discovering vulnerabilities, building scalable systems, and teaching practical cybersecurity techniques.
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened
In The Big Short, investor Michael Burry says “One hallmark of mania is the rapid rise in the incidence and complexity of fraud.” Based on that assumption, Burry shorted the mania- and …
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
Drivers already know upfront pricing typically doesn't work in our favor. But what is upfront pricing, or variations of it, looking like for passengers? We had frequent traveler and RSG contributor Will analyze how Uber charges frequent riders.
Update 3, Nov 2 2015 (PM): Well, it’s been…strange. First, it seems my account was finally deleted by Livecoding.tv (thank you!) After being up all night with libel posted all over it, hours after Jamie Green (the other Livecoding co-founder) and Sam Altman (Y Combinator president) replied to the Hacker News thread…
