Software: Microsoft Skype to shut down
Skype will be shut down in May. Microsoft wants users to switch to Teams.
$60,000/year for PhDs to work on AI?
Outlier.AI offers $30/hour to Masters degree holders in math. Guessing they'll make a stink they can't find workers.
Automation: Wendy’s introduces FreshAI
More automation comes to restaurants.
AI: Technical Report on Deepseek-V3
A technical report on the new Deepseek AI system is available online.
Automation: Salesforce.com will not hire any new software engineers
If I were just starting to study software development, as a career, I would quit now and pick a new field. Reasons inside ....
AI: To avoid AI student work, you must handwrite your papers
How to automate your handwritten papers.
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Tech, H-1B: Nicole Shanahan essay on H-1B issues
Nicole Shanahan essay on the H-1B temporary worker visa controversy.
AI: An AI summary of my Travel/Global Skills blog
An AI generated summary of my travel blog at coldstreams.com/travel
AI: AI’s summary of my SocialPanic.org blog
An AI generated summary of my blog about online propaganda, privacy and misinformation - socialpanic.org.
AI: I asked AI to summarize my X feed
I asked an AI to summarize my X posts and also 3 of my blogs. I'll share these summaries over the next few days.
Software: US govt says to stop using C/C++
It's about them being memory unsafe, by design...
Aviation: Skyryse uses smart control system to make flying easier
Worth watching – impressive and about time:
AI: Energy demands of AI, need for more power generation
Tech companies seek to fund power generation for more AI data centers.
AI: Oh no, the AI models are regressing
Uh oh, this seems headed in the wrong direction: OpenAI o1: New AI model launched with ‘PhD-level’ reasoning, math, coding skills (msn.com)