Nepal reverses social media ban as protests turn deadly
Nepal has reversed its social media ban following nationwide “Gen Z” protests and public backlash.
Read moreSnap breaks into ‘startup squads’ as ad revenue stalls
CEO Evan Spiegel just announced the company is restructuring around small "startup squads" of 10 to 15 people to regain agility against larger competitors.
Read moreInferring sample size from confidence interval
The previous post reported that a study found a 95% confidence interval for the the area of the Mandelbrot set to be 1.506484 ± 0.000004. What was the sample size that was used to come to that conclusion? A 95% confidence interval for a proportion is given by and so
Read moreIntel’s chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes
Intel also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build custom chips for outside customers.
Read moreNetskope follows Rubrik as a rare cybersecurity IPO, both backed by Lightspeed
The 13-year-old company could be valued up to $6.5, with Lightspeed's stake worth $1.1 billion.
Read moreSam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’
After watching Reddit's OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.
Read moreMandelbrot area and escape times
The two latest posts have been about the Mandelbrot set, the set of complex numbers c such that iterations of f(z) = z² + c remain bounded. It’s easy to see that the sequence of iterates will go off to infinity if at any step |z| > 2. For each c, we can look at
Read moreNuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC
Deep Fission had been seeking to raise $15 million in a seed round as recently as April. The reverse merger will raise twice that amount.
Read moreBluesky adds private bookmarks
Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.
Read morePinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won’t be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search.
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