How WhatsApp Didn’t Have Code Reviews Until It Was Acquired By Facebook
WhatsApp was, by almost any measure, the most efficiently run engineering organisation in tech history. Jean Lee, engineer number 19 at WhatsApp and…
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Talked At All During Their First Meeting, Reveals Marc Andreessen
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had been known to be a reluctant public speaker in his early years — he’d once turned red and…
User Discovers That GitHub Copilot Edited An Ad Into Their PR, Company Responds
A routine typo fix turned into a corporate trust crisis for GitHub this week, after a developer discovered that GitHub Copilot had quietly…
Google DeepMind Had Considered Breaking Away From Google Around 2016, Reveals New Book
OpenAI has been struggling with its governance and corporate structure for around a decade, but Google’s DeepMind unit had wrestled with some of…
Could Be Easier To Break Cryptocurrency Encryption Through Quantum Methods Than Previously Thought, Reveals Google In New Paper
Even as the world is focusing on the developments made in AI, there is another field of computing which seems to be producing…
Higher Interest Rates And Covid Over-hiring Causing Layoffs, Not AI: Marc Andreessen
There’s plenty of concern around AI layoffs, especially in tech, but one of the most prominent VCs in the game believes that the…
Waymo CEO Explains Why LiDAR, Radar & Cameras Are Complementary For Self-Driving Cars
Elon Musk believes that anything other than cameras isn’t necessary for self-driving, but Waymo has thought deeply about integrating LiDARs into its self-driving…
HSBC India Asks Users To Change Their Passwords To Upper Case, Raises Eyebrows Among Tech Community
Internet banking is supposed to be one of the most secure online services around, but a recent email from HSBC to its Indian…
“AI Is Coming”: Dana White Strongly Backs AI Use In UFC Production
At least some businesses seem to have no compunctions about using AI, even as a part of their creative operations. UFC CEO Dana…