A profile of Palmer Luckey, who sold Oculus to Facebook, was fired after donating to a pro-Trump troll group, and now imagines a new age of warfare at Anduril
NO A “radical Zionist” 🇮🇱 Palmer is patriot🇺🇸, pure ally and is only anti-idiots + anti-naive illiberal identity ideologues —oh and also anti-despots + evil dictators. [image] Maddie Rowley / @maddie_...
A profile of Palmer Luckey, who sold Oculus to Facebook, was fired after donating to a pro-Trump troll group, and now imagines a new age of warfare at Anduril
The facts of Palmer Luckey's life are so uniquely bizarre—combining elements of fantasy with lunacy and also world-altering change … Threads: @anildash . X: @carnage4life , @carnage4life , @lulumeserv...
An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn's push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering
For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself in an early-stage tech startup to study its organization and culture. X: @ieeespectrum , @p_h_albuquerque , and @grady_booch Linke...
Layoffs.fyi: 50,000+ workers have been laid off from over 200 tech companies since the start of 2024; some recently laid-off employees recall their experiences
Alex Koller / CNBC : X: @dimartinobooth and @grady_booch Forums: r/technews , r/Layoffs , r/technology , r/singularity , and r/business X: Danielle DiMartino Booth / @dimartinobooth : Difference betw...
Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more
Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Reuters : Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI Kara Carlson / USA Tod...
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94
and the world it created Bloomberg : Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder Who Coined Chip Rule, Dies at 94 Aman Gupta / Livemint : Who was Gordon Moore? 10 things to know about the Intel co-founder Paul Alc...
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remembering Fred Brooks. fro...
[Thread] A look at Kraken's announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans
for the simple reason that no one (including the owner) would be permitted to make political statements or gestures of any kind on the job. It would be a place to work, and not an extension of the cul...
OpenAI disbands its robotics team that researched machines that learn tasks like solving a Rubik's Cube, to focus on domains that are more data-rich
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @tsimonite , @_brohrer_ , @mark_riedl , @grady_booch , @togelius , and @carnage4life Tweets: Tom Simonite / @tsimonite : Company claiming to pursue artificial gen...
Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees but critics say game publishers like Activision have too much power over players
Franchised leagues are a modern experiment in what happens when a marketing initiative becomes a billion-dollar industry. Tweets: @gadgetlab , @grady_booch , @cecianasta , @fairplayesports , @stephenj...