01Our CEO Sold His Startup for $120 Million. The Engineers Who Built It Got Almost Nothing
For six years, employees accepted below-market salaries because their stock options would supposedly make them wealthy. Then the… Continue reading on Medium »
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02The Engineer Who Refused a $70K Raise Got Promoted. His Manager Was Fired Six Months Later
He was offered more money to stay quiet about a broken promotion system. Instead, he asked HR to explain why the engineers doing the… Continue reading on Engineering Under Pressure »
03Remittix (RTX): 5 Questions Every Presale Investor Should Ask Before November 24
The upcoming launch is exciting, but preparation and transparency matter more than predictions. Continue reading on Medium »
04Our AI Engineer Earned $380K. Then Finance Asked Why His Model Cost $900K a Year
The company celebrated its most expensive AI hire as a competitive advantage. Nine months later, the CFO discovered that the system he… Continue reading on Engineering Under Pressure »
05Our AI Startup Raised $40 Million. Then an Engineer Asked Why Nobody Was Using the Product
The investors loved our AI agents, the CEO loved our valuation, and the press loved our growth story. Our customers had a different… Continue reading on Engineering Under Pressure »
06Our CEO Made Every Engineer Track Their Hours. The Best Developer Logged 11 Minutes
Management wanted to know where $4.2 million in engineering salaries was going. One Staff Engineer decided to answer the question so… Continue reading on Engineering Under Pressure »
07A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management
Sam Altman's recent comments on the Cheeky Pint podcast inspired developer Iain Kay to create a satirical script that allows users to email the OpenAI CEO once per day if more than 10 percent of their system RAM is reported as available. Ram-Altman is describe…
08Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation
Hackers are actively exploiting a recently discovered critical vulnerability that allows them to log in to privileged accounts on many Linux systems, multiple researchers are reporting. The vulnerability, tracked under the name *sshole, arises from the interac…
09Apple’s $50 Intelligence Usage Packs extend access to some AI features
After publishing a support article in early September outlining usage limits for some Apple Intelligence features, the company has updated Logic Pro with an option to "Buy More Usage" for a one-time purchase price of $49.99, as spotted by 9to5Mac. It has a bui…
10Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
The US military has published a Request for Information on a federal procurement website signaling interest in deploying a "proliferated cislunar constellation" consisting of an unspecified number of satellites performing an undisclosed mission in the vicinity…
11ChatGPT Enterprise now available in AWS Marketplace
ChatGPT Enterprise is now available through AWS Marketplace, helping organizations simplify procurement through existing AWS purchasing and billing relationships.
12Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 models
Anthropic is announcing two new models today: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which it says are designed to take on "daunting" technical challenges. The company claims the new models show improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision, and can generate…
13James Gunn is out as DC movie leader
Soon, James Gunn and Peter Safran will no longer head up Skydance's DC Studios. After taking the helm of DC Studios as co-CEOs in 2022, Gunn and Safran are being replaced by former Marvel SVP of Production and Development Jeremy Latcham, Deadline reports. Howe…
14You can grab three months of Game Pass Ultimate for under $20 per month
The price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has fluctuated between $20 and $30 per month over the last year, but you can get three months of the top plan for around $19 per month. At Newegg, using the coupon code BNWF2656 at checkout knocks $11 off the usual cost of…
15Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts
After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram's next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI. Available now for US residents who are over 18, it has a prompt box for describing your filte…
16The future of AI hinges on… Jensen Huang’s sex life?
I would prefer that these people's sex lives were none of my business but I guess we have to talk about Jensen Huang and the National Security Incident. Who could have guessed that the guy who was out here signing titties might not have great judgment about ho…
17Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub
Claude Code is leaking sensitive information on public GitHub instances thanks to a partial oversight in the way its settings files are handled. That's the finding of AI security researchers at Apiiro, who discovered thousands of secrets , including database p…
18SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
For a long time, SpaceX has been synonymous with the development of newer, larger, and ever-more-reusable rockets. But that began to change over the last decade with the introduction of Starlink, and the change has accelerated during the last 18 months as the…