Microsoft is Trying To Poach Meta AI Talent and Offering Multimillion-Dollar Pay Packages Summary Microsoft has launched an aggressive recruiting push targeting Meta’s AI staff, according to internal documents seen…
Microsoft Releases Lightweight Office Taskbar Apps for Windows 11 Summary Microsoft has begun rolling out a set of lightweight Microsoft 365 “companion” apps for Windows 11, targeted first at business…
Google Will Now Let You Pick Your Top Sources For Search Results Summary Google is rolling out a feature called “Preferred Sources” in the US and India that lets users…
AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview Summary Major employers including Google, Cisco and McKinsey are reintroducing in-person interview rounds to counter AI-assisted cheating in remote technical…
UK Government Suggests Deleting Files To Save Water Summary The UK’s National Drought Group has urged people to consider small actions to help during the country’s drought, including deleting old…
Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data Summary Global staffing firm Manpower has confirmed that an independently owned Manpower franchise in Lansing, Michigan, was hit by…
The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says Summary Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues for a time-limited legal right allowing estates to delete…
Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut Summary A BBC-sourced report says the Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France temporarily shut units after a “massive and unpredictable presence…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Recent research (University of Arizona, preprint arXiv:2508.01191, reported by Ars Technica and summarised on Slashdot) argues that chain-of-thought (CoT)…
Amazon’s Starlink Competitor Tops 100 Satellites Summary After four weather-related delays, Amazon launched 24 additional Kuiper internet satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, bringing the Kuiper constellation to 102 satellites.…
