Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity Summary Entrepreneur and product executive Elliot Smith argues LinkedIn’s engagement-driven algorithm systematically elevates shallow, over-produced posts above substantive professional discussion. According to the analysis, likes, comments…
Americans’ Junk-Filled Garages Are Hurting EV Adoption, Study Says Summary A Telemetry market-research analysis (cited by Ars Technica) highlights a frequently overlooked barrier to US EV adoption: garage use. While…
US Strips Ocean and Air Pollution Monitoring From Next-Gen Weather Satellites – Slashdot Summary The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of…
How a fraudulent scientist faked his career and other cautionary tales: Books in brief Summary Andrew Robinson selects and reviews a set of notable new science books. The pieces covered…
RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no Summary US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr publicly called for the retraction of a large Danish…
US warns tech companies against complying with European and British ‘censorship’ laws Summary The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairman, Andrew Ferguson, sent a letter to US tech CEOs warning that…
Summary The Federal Trade Commission chair, Andrew Ferguson, has sent a stern letter to a list of major US tech companies (Akamai, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, GoDaddy, Meta, Microsoft,…
Enterprise IT Shared Services Blueprint: ITIL-Aligned Framework for Service Delivery, Governance, and Financial Accountability Summary This operational blueprint, built on ITIL best practices, gives senior IT leaders a structured, actionable…
Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment Summary The New York Times (via Slashdot) reports that Jay Blahnik, vice president for fitness technologies at Apple and creator…
Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity Summary An analysis by entrepreneur Elliot Smith, published via Slashdot, argues that LinkedIn’s engagement-driven algorithm elevates shallow, overproduced posts above substantive professional discussion. Smith calls this…
