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Bull markets make you feel smarter than you really are. Bear markets make you feel dumber than you really are. It’s almost impossible to avoid feeling like a know-it-all when things are going up and a know-nothing when things are going down. That’s human nature. Benjamin Graham started his investment partnership in the Roaring 20s […]
As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineering manager spending their time effectively to advance the company or their organization? Confusingly, in my […]
Tushar Mehta / Android Authority The Android apps that come preinstalled on a phone have several advantages. For one, they’re already there — you don’t need to visit the Play Store and sift through numerous options to find one that might meet your needs. Secondly, they’re usually from the manufacturer itself, which means they’re tightly […]
Conor here: Noting the authors’ backgrounds, their argument is unsurprising. But seeing that so much of what is sold as tech breakthroughs and AI innovation is really just theft on an unprecedented scale, demands for endless resources for the benefit a few, shredding the social contract, environmental destruction, new and improved surveillance, and tools that […]
Store pages on Steam are looking a lot less cramped thanks to a new update. Pages have been made wider, with support for higher resolution images and new viewing modes for trailers and screenshots. You’ll notice changes in the top carousel and in the “About the Game” section, where some new formatting options should make […]
Key Takeaways Pakistan may launch a rupee-backed stablecoin to enhance financial access and modernize payments. The initiative is considered alongside the creation of comprehensive digital asset regulations. Share this article Pakistan is exploring the launch of a rupee-backed stablecoin, a cryptocurrency designed to maintain value stability through asset pegging, as part of broader efforts to […]
—Senator Bernie Sanders reacts to Tesla shareholders’ decision to award Elon Musk a $1 trillion pay package in a post on X. One more thing Finding forgotten Indigenous landscapes with electromagnetic technology The fertile river valleys of the American Midwest hide tens of thousands of Indigenous earthworks, according to experts: geometric structures consisting of walls, […]
Seven of the top ten miners by hashrate report AI or high-performance computing initiatives already generating revenue, with the other three planning to follow suit. The shift pairs miners’ energized land and interconnections with contracted revenue from GPU customers, creating a second line of business that competes with running ASICs at full power. AI partnerships […]
Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could enable a passive adversary with capabilities to observe network traffic to glean details about model conversation topics despite encryption protections under certain circumstances. This leakage of data exchanged between humans and streaming-mode language models could pose serious risks to the privacy of user […]
I don’t make a lot of predictions but here are two I have about the next 10 years or so: (1) Wealth inequality is going to get worse. (2) There is going to be a huge generational divide that opens up because of this. Baby boomers are the biggest, wealthiest generation we’ve ever seen. If […]
