Satya Nadella seeks to reassure Microsoft employees in layoffs memo
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. | Image: Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella didn’t send a company-wide memo when the software maker laid off as many as 9,000 employees earlier this month. Now, Nadella is finally addressing what’s on many Microsoft employees’ minds: layoffs. “I want to speak to what’s been
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Amazon launches a more affordable, $250 Colorsoft Kindle and a version for kids.
Read morePreston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.
A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody.
Read moreSpotify takes a swing at gaming with a mini golf game ahead of ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ release
Netflix and Spotify teamed up to launch a golf-inspired game as a way to promote “Happy Gilmore 2,” which premieres on Netflix this Friday.
Read moreCybercrime forum Leak Zone publicly exposed its users’ IP addresses
Exclusive: The popular "leaking and cracking" forum left one of its databases exposed to the internet without a password, exposing the IP addresses of its users logging in.
Read moreAI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties
"We're getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it's actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having an effect on bug hunting, for better and worse.
Read moreDesign Systems in 2025: Why They’re the Blueprint for Consistent UX
Discover why design systems are essential for consistent UX in 2025. Learn how top companies like Google, Apple, and IBM use design systems to scale efficiently while maintaining creativity. Explore upcoming trends in AI, AR/VR integration, and ethical design practices. Continue reading Design Systems in 2025: Why They're the Blueprint
Read moreAnnuity and factorial notation
Actuarial mathematics makes frequent use of a notation that as far as I know isn’t used anywhere else, and that is a bracket enclosing the northeast corner of a symbol. This is used as subscript of another symbol, such as an a or an s, and there may be other decorations such
Read moreGoogle’s new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes
The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google's Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images.
Read moreSoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI
LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-headquartered legal tech startup that has built an AI contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, along with existing investor World Innovation Lab (WiL), and new investors Mori Hamada
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