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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
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John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Apple announced Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus will become Apple’s next CEO.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
Six years, no deadlines, and one rule: write some code every day. That slow, stubborn routine turned a side project into a sustainable search company.
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Meta lays off 11,000 people
Mark Zuckerberg shares some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.
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Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Fellow Amazonians:
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
The design of "technical interviews" is hurting the tech sector.
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Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
Proof that job interviews done by incompetent people are irrelevant.
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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy —
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Google to reduce workforce by 12k
As an almost 25-year-old company, we’re bound to go through difficult economic cycles.
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Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
The tech industry, especially the security industry, seems outrageously overwhelming to newcomers and even as an intermediate “InfoSec Pro” there seems to be an overwhelming number of paths and topics one can focus on. The problem most of us, especially newcomers, encounter is that we don’t know what to focus on. Even…
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“It's The Future”
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
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Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died
Aisha Washington is a global people and culture executive with more than two decades of experience driving enterprise growth through HR M&A integration, workforce AI transformation, high-performance culture, and team
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What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his...
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Thank You, Guido
After six and a half years, Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving Dropbox and heading into retirement. From the beginning, we knew Guido would be a great addition to our company. In fact, his contributions to Dropbox date back to day one. Our CEO Drew Houston’s very first lines of code for Dropbox were…
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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
Notorious AV patent troll Axel Nix is at it again!
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Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
Archived MIT Admissions blog post 'We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles,' published March 28, 2022. Preserved for historical context; not maintained as current admissions policy.
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Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
I’m the moderator for our Ask A Female Engineer series, and a female engineer on the software team at YC. This is the sixth installment in a series where we ask female engineers questions and share their candid, anonymous responses. In this post, we did something a bit different: we asked engineers to answer questions…
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Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
Dash provides instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets, code snippets, and cheat sheets. Features MCP support for AI integration with Claude and other AI agents.
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Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
Mark Zuckerberg announces steps to make Meta a better technology company and improve our financial performance.
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John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
We have incredible news to share with the community: legendary game programmer John Carmack will be officially joining the Oculus team as...
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Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry. Throughout my life, my ...
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