CareerBuilder and Monster job boards, file for bankruptcy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/careerbuilder-monster-which-once-dominated-online-job-boards-file-bankruptcy-2025-06-24/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/careerbuilder-monster-which-once-dominated-online-job-boards-file-bankruptcy-2025-06-24/
Reuters
CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated online job boards, file for bankruptcy
CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated the online recruitment industry, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday and said it plans to sell its businesses.
Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/25/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/25/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits
the Guardian
Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits
US academics say computer code systematically raised fares at expense of drivers and passengers
NSF getting kicked out of headquarters by HUD
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/hud-plans-to-move-operations-from-washington-to-virginia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/hud-plans-to-move-operations-from-washington-to-virginia
Bloomberg.com
HUD Plans to Move Operations From Washington to Virginia
The US Housing and Urban Development Department, whose headquarters in Washington is up for sale, plans to move at least some of its operations into another federal building just outside the city amid a broader Trump administration campaign to consolidate…
Ask HN: Anyone Using Augmented Reality, VR, Glasses, Helmets etc. in Industry?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378271
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378271
Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250625-01/?p=111308
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250625-01/?p=111308
Microsoft News
Your information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently
Is it really gone?
Microsoft opens a free tier for Windows 10 extended updates
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/microsoft_free_esu_tier/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/microsoft_free_esu_tier/
The Register
Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points
: Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please
Tomatoes in the Galápagos are quietly de-evolving
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-tomatoes-galpagos-quietly-de-evolving.html
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-tomatoes-galpagos-quietly-de-evolving.html
phys.org
Tomatoes in the Galápagos are quietly de-evolving
On the younger, black-rock islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild-growing tomatoes are doing something peculiar. They're shedding millions of years of evolution, reverting to a more primitive genetic ...
NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along an Odd Line: Car Ownership
https://www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-won-non-car-owners/
https://www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-won-non-car-owners/
Jalopnik
NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along An Odd Line: Car Ownership - Jalopnik
Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.
Negative Two-Thousand Lines of Code
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt
A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/
Quanta Magazine
A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.
IBM's Dmitry Krotov wants to crack the 'physics' of memory
https://research.ibm.com/blog/dmitry-krotov-ai-physics
https://research.ibm.com/blog/dmitry-krotov-ai-physics
IBM Research
IBM’s Dmitry Krotov wants to crack the ‘physics’ of memory
Dima Krotov is searching for an AI architecture that is both interpretable and could explain how our own memory works.
QEMU: Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3d40db0efc22520fa6c399cf73960dced423b048
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3d40db0efc22520fa6c399cf73960dced423b048
GitHub
docs: define policy forbidding use of AI code generators · qemu/qemu@3d40db0
There has been an explosion of interest in so called AI code
generators. Thus far though, this is has not been matched by a broadly
accepted legal interpretation of the licensing implications for c...
generators. Thus far though, this is has not been matched by a broadly
accepted legal interpretation of the licensing implications for c...