Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
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The Washington Post is retreating from Silicon Valley when it matters most
The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin
Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley
Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.
A16z VC wants founders to stop stressing over insane ARR numbers
A16z VC Jennifer Li, who oversees some of the firm’s fastest growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR claim made on X.
It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres
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Iron Lung’s path to theaters was unique, even if the movie isn’t
As a movie, Iron Lung is occasionally thrilling but mostly forgettable. It’s a small-budget horror flick that has some cool ideas and pulls them off in an extremely efficient way, creating a sense of tension that unfortunately never turns into…
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from using facial recognition technology. The bill would make it “unlawful…
OpenAI’s Frontier wants to manage your AI agents – it could upend enterprise software, too
Emulating Palantir’s use of forward-deployed AI engineers, OpenAI’s framework is both an opportunity and a threat for commercial software firms.
The price of Bitcoin drops below $65,000
On Thursday, Bitcoin’s value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as CNBC reports. After crossing $100,000 in November 2024 and peaking at over $122,000…
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.