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The implications of this are quite unsettling. Meta gave an agent privileged read AND write access to user accounts with no human in the loop?

There are some side-bet experiments like $2Mn on Hyperliquid[1], $1Mn on Polymarket[2] which are available to everyone. Unfortunately companies stay private for longer these days a…

I’m very bearish on Accenture for the following reason: the business model is a levered flywheel (high-paid salespeople and aggressive M&A buyouts powered by share price appreciati…

Here is my attempt: blockchain is a 'good enough' way to bootload a platform for making permissionless dollar-denominated payments. You could technically achieve the same functiona…

The car physics in GTA IV was divisive but very memorable :) I will be cheering on whoever takes this role!

Wow—this being an AI generated comment is certainly a possibility. The proliferation of LLMs in online discussion spaces is accelerating and radically reshaping the modern web. Ide…

I'm experiencing the same issue which is definitely exacerbated by straying from a 'default' configuration e.g. using a custom browser screen reader, browsing from Brazil, using a …

I was completely shocked to find out how many people use search in those apps to query open questions rather than 'search the web' via something like Google

Wow, they did a licensing deal with a legitimate manufacturer in Taiwan to get the battery listed on official websites? This runs so much deeper than I expected. Supply chains are …

Did McKinsey write this? > Quantum computing is poised to be the next major innovation, but five of the top ten tech companies globally in terms of quantum investment are based in …

Yep, plus Apple is opening up the NFC API for tap to pay. I could easily see merchants accept both cards (2%+8c) and USDC (0%) at point of sale

Amazon 1st party is and continues to be a loss leader. If they got rid of their 3rd party sellers tomorrow, the company would go bankrupt from the loss of B2B commission, fulfilmen…

Bytedance, Nvidia, OpenAI, Stripe, Anthropic, Checkout.com, maybe parts of Shopify

Absolutely love 'Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom' by him

It's introduced early on (and not what the book is really about): distribution of a video that is so entertaining that any viewer is compelled to watch it until they die

The big tech co I work at has filled thousands of back office roles in UAE this year. Political neutrality + fundraising + tax advantages have pulled them away from US/Europe/Asia

One company is led by engineers, the other is led by MBAs

Great article. If this sustainable arbitrage exists from renting gpu time instead of selling and shipping gpus, why doesn't nvidia become a cloud provider itself?

The Onion: "Boeing Promotes Mysterious Employee Known Only As ‘The Panther’": https://www.theonion.com/boeing-promotes-mysterious-employee...

Does Meta provide a status page for its consumer products?

Yep, for me this means I simply can't use the site anymore. Recommend: https://old.lemmy.world as an alternative

CEO total comp of $193m in 2023 is...quite something

If this person was laid-off on Jan 1st and spent one hour on each application, that averages to 12.5 hours of non-stop job applying every day for 197 days straight

I recently migrated from Dropbox to Google One. I find Dropbox's personal pricing really baffling: you get 2 GB for free or have to move all the way up to 2 TB and pay £100 a year.…