Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump
Benioff also owns TIME magazine, which named Trump Person of the Year in 2024. — #Salesforce #Dreamforce $CRM — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u... Jennifer Elias / @jennelias : “It saddens me immense...
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more
code-named B589 — for release around the middle of next year. That accessory has now progressed in manufacturing tests, and Apple is getting ready to bring it to market. I'm told the new version wil...
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Brian Penny / @thebrianpenny : Great quick read from Gary Marcus pointing to several studies from ML researchers at Apple and Stanford pointing out the complete and utt...
MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in December 2022, gets an offer from K1 to go private in a $37M deal, or $0.55/share, far below its $672M Series D valuation
if it is controlled by capitalists, don't call it FLOSS. — this should have been clear by now with the bait-and-switch Google pulled with the “privatization” of Android's GApps vs. ASOS. … Dare Obas...
A look at AI chatbots modeled on real experts, like US psychologist Martin Seligman, that are often created without permission, highlighting a policy gray area
New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone. Washington wants to fix it, but it's not clear how. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @c...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol”
I've been as big a Facebook critic as anybody, but this is a good thing. And reflects that we're entering a new era of the open web, with a chance for things to be more interesting again. Brian Penny...
Beeper says “Beeper Mini is back” but now requires users to log in with their Apple ID, as phone number registration doesn't work; Beeper makes the service free
Bug fixes and other improvements — We've created an updated version … Anurag Singh / Dexerto : Android iMessage app releases new update to sidestep Apple block Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines :...
Sources: Byju's founder Byju Raveendran pledged his and his family's homes as collateral to borrow ~$12M to raise ~$400M in debt to pay staff amid a cash crunch
- Founder has raised $400 million in debt to keep firm afloat — Company is also seeking to raise funds through asset sales Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . LinkedIn: Anto Antony Mastodon: Dare Obasan...
How Brad Smith, who became Microsoft's top legal officer in 2002, used a legal, policy, and influence machine costing $1B+ a year to close the Activision deal
Company's top legal officer has honed diplomatic skills to recast the US tech giant's reputation Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Brad Smith gets his tim...
iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown: a redesigned frame helps with replacing the back glass, a tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, and more
as long as Apple is the one fixing it Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider : iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown reveals few internal changes, digs at repairability Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : iFixit posts t...