EU draft legislation will ban AI for mass biometric surveillance and predictive policing
The draft legislation will ban mass facial recognition, among other uses of AI, but has yet to be confirmed as law. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The EU has taken a step closer to enforcing strong regulation of AI, drafting new safeguards that would prohibit a wide
Read MoreTechnical interviews: A guide for interviewers & candidates
Introduction Let’s face it: Technical interviews can be burdensome and unpleasant—for interviewers and candidates alike. For hiring teams, designing interview and assessment questions that accurately assess a candidate’s technical aptitude, problem-solving skills, and ability to collaborate can be a challenge. Candidates, meanwhile, face the pressure of demonstrating their technical knowledge
Read MoreChris’ Corner: Dithering
Dithering is a vibe: Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as color banding in images. Wikipedia For an academic PDF, this is pretty approachable. In the web world, I typically think of it as associated with “indexed colors” images
Read More5 Ways Ambitious DevOps Engineers Can Advance Their Careers
DevOps engineers have much to offer their organizations beyond developing CI/CD pipelines, configuring infrastructure as code, enabling AIOps capabilities, and other engineering practices that align with dev and ops objectives. If you’re an ambitious DevOps engineer, I’ve already published a career checklist to help you roadmap learning
Read MoreAndreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind?
Illustration by Sean Dong for The Verge The venture capital firm was known for hyping its portfolio. But in the era of tech skepticism and rising interest rates, is it still ahead of the curve? Before Clubhouse, Substack, and Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0 began floundering, they were supposed to revolutionize media.
Read MoreChris’ Corner: A Balancing Act
If you’re a super normal person like me, you’ve gone to war with typographic widows and orphans many times over your years as a developer, trying to ensure they don’t happen and ruin anyone’s day. You know what I mean, a headline with one silly little word that has wrapped
Read MoreThe ultimate guide to hiring 10X engineers
Introduction In today’s competitive hiring market, attracting and securing top-notch software engineers is a challenging—yet critical—task for any organization. The challenge: Traditional processes for hiring engineers are slow and burdensome for both candidates and hiring teams. Engineering teams suffer from reduced productivity due to spending many hours a week screening
Read MoreHow to Co-Create on Innovation: Focus Executives, Employees, and Partners on Learning
In my recent post on agile co-creation, I said, “Co-creation requires a shift in mindset, contracting, and operating model.” The shift can be paradoxical for business leaders who view partnering as a tool for throwing problems over the fence and managing a project or service at arm’s length. I’ll tackle
Read MoreWhat we learned at SIOP ’23 about the future of tech hiring
April may be the most anticipated time of year for Industrial-Organizational (IO) Psychologists. Why? It’s when we hold our annual conference, SIOP, where top academics and practitioners in our field come together to share our latest research, debate, and learn from each other. According to SIOP, over 5,000 IO Psychologists
Read MoreTerra co-founder Daniel Shin charged with fraud in South Korea
Screenshot: UDC via YouTube Daniel Shin, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, was indicted in South Korea in connection with the collapsed Terra and Luna cryptocurrencies. According to reports from Bloomberg and the local Yonhap News Agency, Shin was charged on Tuesday with offenses including fraud, breach of duty, and embezzlement.
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