Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling
https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/
https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/
Morpheus Research
Backblaze: A Loss-Making Data Storage Business Mired in Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, and Brazen Insider Dumping
Summary
* Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) is a $250 million cloud storage and backup solution provider based in California that operates through two business segments: B2 Cloud Storage allowing “customers to store data” and “developers to build applications,” and…
* Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) is a $250 million cloud storage and backup solution provider based in California that operates through two business segments: B2 Cloud Storage allowing “customers to store data” and “developers to build applications,” and…
Freshpaint (YC S19) is hiring back end and front end engineers (Remote, US only)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43802839
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43802839
Top employee monitoring app leaks 21M screenshots on users
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/top-employee-monitoring-app-leaks-21-million-screenshots-on-thousands-of-users
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/top-employee-monitoring-app-leaks-21-million-screenshots-on-thousands-of-users
TechRadar
Top employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots on thousands of users
WorkComposer leaking screenshots of user activity on the clear web
Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/
The Register
Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key
: Reg hack pines for simpler times, then tries to recapture them
University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use
https://thelogic.co/news/waterloo-university-coding-competition-ai-cheating/
https://thelogic.co/news/waterloo-university-coding-competition-ai-cheating/
The Logic
University of Waterloo withholds prestigious coding competition results over suspected AI cheating - The Logic
Students submitted code they didn't write themselves, contributing to widespread rule-breaking
Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/smells-like-teen-friendship-how-scent-influences-social-choices/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/smells-like-teen-friendship-how-scent-influences-social-choices/
Ars Technica
Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends
College women smelled each other’s T-shirts in new study to evaluate “friendship potential.”…
The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy70y2x3xj6o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy70y2x3xj6o
Bbc
The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany
The rail and road link will slash journey times between much of Scandinavia and continental Europe.
California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers
https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/02/27/uc-berkeley-fast-food-worker-study-minimum-wage
https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/02/27/uc-berkeley-fast-food-worker-study-minimum-wage
Axios
Study: California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers
The new analysis from the UC Berkeley Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics shows that the minimum wage increase has not cut jobs or led to substantial price increases for consumers.
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01312-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01312-8
Nature
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Nature - Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.
Parity (YC S24) is hiring founding engineers to build an AI SRE (in-person, SF)
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/parity/jobs
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/parity/jobs
Y Combinator
Jobs at Parity
Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/are-these-chimps-having-a-fruity-booze-up-in-the-wild/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/are-these-chimps-having-a-fruity-booze-up-in-the-wild/
Ars Technica
Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild?
New data suggests that the human inclination toward feasting in groups is part of our deep evolutionary history.