Top 7 Leadership Mistakes When Assigning People to Agile Teams
CIOs and CTOs often face challenges in staffing agile teams effectively, making compromises to meet objectives and stakeholder demands. Successful agile team management requires clear leadership roles and alignment with business goals. Key mistakes include misassigning team members, creating operational silos, and failing to adequately train leaders, which can hinder
Read moreHR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach
The HR tech giant said it had no indication of any unauthorized access to customer systems, but has not ruled out a breach affecting customers' personal information.
Read morePerplexity now supports live earnings call transcripts for Indian stocks
AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with the ability to transcribe Indian public companies' quarterly earnings calls live, as well as show schedules for post-results conference calls.
Read moreGrammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features
Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on the back of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant for students and professionals, including an AI grader, proofreader and citation finder.
Read moreGPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now
OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.”
Read more‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix
Netflix could soon lose the creative team behind one of its biggest hits, with the Duffer Brothers reportedly signing an exclusive deal with Paramount.
Read moreFactoring Stencils
I recently ran across an article by Katherine Stange [1] on Lehmer’s factoring stencils [2]. These stencils were the basis of an effective method for factoring moderately large numbers before the advent of electronic computers. This post will describe the stencils and simulate their use with a Python script. Misconceptions
Read morePrompt engineering best practices 2025: Top features to focus on now
As generative AI continues to grow as a tool in our everyday lives, prompt engineering has emerged as one of the most critical skills for unlocking the full potential of large language models (LLMs) and how they interpret, respond to, and collaborate with human instructions. Prompt engineering isn’t just for
Read moreDuolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood
While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn faced backlash after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.”
Read moreJudge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’
A federal judge has blocked the FTC's investigation into Media Matters research around advertising and antisemitic content on X.
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