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Absolutely. I think the FB CoI within American venture capital, where they have fully infested the LP and GP ranks of most funds, is a much bigger and more important story. It real…

> The Information reported on Thursday, citing two people with knowledge of the situation. I miss the old days of journalism, when they might feel inclined to let the reader know t…

> Source? https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3568

Oh man, the irony of this response. Do Kwon very specifically did NOT have USD in this situation, and I’m pretty sure his defense will be that there was no representation that the …

It’s less than one minute of nuclear arsenal maintenance. We can afford both. https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2024/06/17/us-sp...

As someone who works in an office alongside Japanese illustrators and graphic designers, I would like to know where the manga-style training data came from, and what is being done …

This is ridiculous. The EU has a complete axe to grind against Apple, for reasons that I believe border on corruption (if not, veer completely into it). Meanwhile, Meta has a near-…

> I'm a SysOps engineer at a fairly large online casino. We have around 4 million monthly active users. We had been happy Cloudflare customers since 2018 on the "Business" plan whi…

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While we are on this topic — can someone, anyone , tell me how to disable the AI autocompletion suggestions in Outlook for iOS? Getting ready to dump Microsoft and Exchange to get …

The problem isn’t technical, it’s social. I don’t want my bank, and some “global payment network” that can easily lobby its way out of real data oversight, to know my transit patte…

Don’t worry! Visa and MasterCard have lobbied the hapless fools who inherited this wonderfully efficient and effective system, and the trains of Japan will soon switch over to join…

This reminds me of the time at Facebook when one of OpenAI’s current board members was upset that the Director of Facebook Platform was getting more praise and attention than he wa…

Protip: If someone says they are trying to be like Berkshire Hathaway, and their business plan doesn’t include a strategy for cornering some segment of the insurance market, they d…

Oh! We are finally going to talk about how PayPal was utterly owned by Russian cyber gangs that made a mockery of the idea that these guys were fraud detection geniuses? checks art…

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What’s the easiest way for a startup to poach H1B workers from competitors and large, established companies? Is it even possible, or are they trapped at their sponsoring company? I…

Actually, Kelly matched one meme with another: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/09/mariah-carey-i-dont... It’s pretty sad that the parent got upvoted and commented so much, wi…

This exchange is pretty funny to anyone who knows the background on the extremely cozy relationship between Katherine Graham and the CIA. It seems that, in our post-truth world, fa…

To all of the armchair experts on HN who want to criticize this project and its maintenance costs: you better make sure you understand the (very French) politics that made this an …

It’s important to remember that the music business is one of the first places where corporations used technology to replace human workers. Back in my day (not really) you could get…

It’s a bit of a dirty secret that Japan actually has abysmal data privacy and enforcement. The budget of the regulator in charge of these matters all but ensures that they will do …

> Social media was the first contact between A.I. and humanity, and humanity lost. First contact has given us the bitter taste of things to come. In social media, primitive A.I. wa…