silicon valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-meta.html Credit...Hokyoung Kim Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever ChatGPT’s release a year ago triggered a desperate scramble among tech companies and alarm from some of the people who helped invent...

Stop Asian Hate though right?:francis: A notable venture capitalist and board member at the public company behind iconic brands like The North Face and Timberland was dismissive of racism in the U.S. and called Black Lives Matter "the true racists," according to emails obtained by Axios. In...

Twitter Latin America coordinator exposed as right-wing operative, amid anti-AMLO social media purge JANUARY 24, 2021 While Mexico’s progressive President AMLO challenges the Big Tech corporation’s growing censorship, Twitter Latin America’s public policy head was exposed as a right-wing...

So I’m watching this show called “Silicon Valley” on HBO. It’s actually a pretty good show and I’m enjoying it. :ehh: If any of you brehs in the Tech and Coding field have seen it, does the show depict the lifestyle/culture correctly? A bunch of well paid nerds in the San Jose area creating...

WELLINGTON, Kan. — The seed of rebellion was planted in classrooms. It grew in kitchens and living rooms, in conversations between students and their parents. It culminated when Collin Winter, 14, an eighth grader in McPherson, Kan., joined a classroom walkout in January. In the nearby town of...

The first e-nation supposedly. I had no idea. They even made Skype there. Based on the video, it seems that country is a population of contract software engineers. They can even vote online. The whole thing is: :weebeyanime:

ON OCTOBER 23, Doppler Labs founder Noah Kraft got a Facebook notification. One of those "On This Day" pop-ups, resurfacing a post from exactly two years ago, when Kraft had appeared on CNBC to make the case for his company. "We want to put a computer, speaker, and mic in everyone's ear," Kraft...

Library Genesis: Evgeny Morozov - The net delusion: the dark side of Internet freedom

HP Enterprise said to Cut 5,000 Jobs Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is planning to cut about 10 percent of its staff, or at least 5,000 workers, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a broader effort to pare expenses as competition mounts. The reductions are expected to start...

The goal of this program is to inspire other silicon valley companies to start up similar programs at HBCU engineering schools across the country.

For all its so-called innovation and egalitarianism, Silicon Valley may remain just as problematic as the rest of America when it comes to the pay gap between African-American and white workers. According to a study by Hired, a San Francisco-based tech worker recruiting firm, the average...

Kudos to her... Stephanie Lampkin, creator of Blendoor Stephanie Lampkin isn't the typical tech CEO. As a black woman, she is somewhat of a rarity in Silicon Valley, where over 83 percent of tech executives are white and nearly 80 percent are male. The lack of diversity in the tech sector is...

Tech firms may soon need to find new recruiting ground to the fill high-paying positions that President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to make a core part of his plan to create more jobs and put "America first." Trump is reportedly considering a draft proposal to overhaul the current work...

For the 6 certs brehs/brehettes and Californians with Github repos, most may be disinterested. I found it to be a long but insightful read. Photos and descriptions contained in the spoilers. I hope this positively affects you and yours; especially those with their shyt somewhat together who...

In an effort to diversify their workforce, businesses are going beyond "blind" hiring... Tracy Chou wrote a post on Medium in October 2013, challenging tech companies to tell the world what percentage of their software engineers were women. Surprisingly, it worked: Google, Apple, Facebook and...

We some interesting interwebs comments stating Chinese engineers are plants in tech firms are insider threats and steal ip addresses by the usual suspects :mjpls: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/technology/us-accuses-tech-firm-of-bias-against-asian-software-engineers.html?_r=0 Palantir...

:dwillhuh: This dude is absolutely fukking ruthless. A Silicon Valley billionaire is reportedly funding the legal war to end Gawker As for why any moneyed Silicon Valley figure would spend millions of dollars to help Hogan, Forbes points not to any great friendship between the wrestler and an...