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Amazon tests how far to push white-collar workers to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions, creating a bruising, data-driven workplace — Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace — SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult … | Nick Ciubotariu / LinkedIn Pulse: |
An Amazonian's response to “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” — Disclaimer and proviso: “The postings on this site are my own and don't represent Amazon's position in any way whatsoever”. — Update: I really appreciate the notes of thanks this post has received, here and on other social media avenues.| ProPublica: |
NSA spying relies on AT&T's “extreme willingness to help” tap Internet communications, say newly-disclosed Snowden documents — NSA Spying Relies on AT&T's ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Nextbit, led by Android and HTC vets, will launch its Android smartphone on September 1 priced at $300-$400 — Google, HTC vets prep ‘friggin’ awesome' smartphone for Sept. 1 launch — Nextbit makes the bold claim that its smartphone will actually get better over time thanks to software tweaks.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
New Dark Web study shows drug market turns over $100M+/year in illegal substances, and the ecosystem is becoming more resilient to crackdowns, setbacks — Crackdowns Haven't Stopped the Dark Web's $100M Yearly Drug Sales — After more than four years and two giant law enforcement busts … | Ron Lieber / New York Times: |
Alleged sexual assault by Airbnb host highlights need for the company to improve safety policies — Airbnb Horror Story Points to Need for Precautions — Early in the evening of July 4, Micaela Giles's mobile phone started sounding alerts, and a series of messages straight out of a horror movie began scrolling down her screen.| Mike Hearn / Medium: |
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Inside Industrial Light & Magic's secret Star Wars VR lab — I'm on Industrial Light & Magic's motion capture stage, standing inside what they call “the cave.” It's not much to look at: two big screens angled at 90 degrees, awash in a smeary blur of images.| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Avoid being featured in the App Store at launch: your app will likely have issues and first-time users won't give you a second chance — Avoid the Feature — Early on, all those downloads are not your friend — It's right there, like a glittering lure in a dark sea. An email from Apple.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Fleksy Adds Deep-Linking To Its Keyboard App, Opening New Revenue Opportunities — Fleksy, the popular third-party keyboard app for iOS and Android, has taken the next step to monetizing its service after it began enabling deep-linking to other apps. — The new features are powered by URX … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wildcard relaunches app to focus on presenting news from thousands of sources in card format — Wildcard Debuts A News-Reading App Designed For The Mobile Age — Besides messaging, snapping photos, and checking the weather, news reading has become one of the top activities done on mobile phones.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Celebrating 10 years of Zoho Marketplace — 30 Zoho products,2,900+ extensions and integrations,1 million+ users, and2 million installations.Zoho Marketplace celebrates a decade-long journey of adding timeless value …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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