Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted
and unleash chaos Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership Media Matters for America : After the Brown University shooting, right-med...
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires all new US border surveillance towers to be “autonomous”, effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on tower contracts
Anduril Industries is a major beneficiary of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes a section that essentially grants … Bluesky: @jesspish , @mmasnick , @eff.org , and @sambiddle.com Bluesky: ...
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump ...
Docs: ODNI is developing a centralized portal to streamline the purchase of commercially available information, like location data, by US intelligence agencies
US intel is buying up vast volumes of sensitive information that would have previously required a court order, essentially bypassing #FourthAmendment. But #surveillance state has encountered a proble...
Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no evidence the Israeli military used its tech to harm civilians in Gaza, after months of employee protests
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue... Sam Biddle / @sambiddle.com : Microsoft Investigates Microsoft, Clears Microsoft of Wrongdoing blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue... @jaybut707 : The usual interpreta...
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg.com : Guess what book I just bought! — www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Karl Bode / @karlbode.com : this must be the “masculine” adorat...
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) venture capital fir...
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...
Donald Trump says Meta has “come a long way” after the company announced it will end its fact-checking program, and that Meta's “presentation was excellent”
www.techpolicy.press/transcript- m... @futbolsound : The swagger of a dictator in full view. The media will play into it, he'll continue to be insufferable, and the billionaires will continue to grov...
Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed
But to be fair, this guy did upload his image into their AI filtering doodad. So, y'know, those of us who eschew AI will not get randomly fucked with. [embedded post] Sam Biddle / @sambiddle.com : N...