We saw a host of excellent Bose discounts during Amazon’s so-called Big Spring Sale last month; however, none of them were quite as steep as the current price drop we’re seeing on the latest Bose Soundlink Flex. Right now, the portable speaker is on sale at Amazon in select colors starting at $109 ($50 off), … Read More “Bose’s rugged Soundlink Flex Bluetooth speaker is on sale for up to $50 off” »
The past few weeks, it feels like procrastination is everywhere. It might just be the frequency illusion — but it’s on my mind, so I need to write about it. Not too long ago, I finished a video on my channel, a couple of days after filming. Even though my regular schedule would require me … Read More “Productive procrastination — Max van IJsselmuiden” »
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Want to make AI go better? Figure out how to measure it:…One simple policy intervention that works well…Jacob Steinhardt, an AI researcher, has written a nice blog laying out … Read More “Nuclear LLMs; China’s big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy” »
Mixing corn starch and water in appropriate amounts produces a slurry that is liquid when stirred slowly but hardens when you punch it—a substance colorfully dubbed “oobleck.” (The name derives from a 1949 Dr. Seuss children’s book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck.) High-speed imaging and force measurements have revealed another surprising property of oobleck drops hitting … Read More “"Oobleck" still holds some surprises” »
France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. technology. Linux is an open source operating system that is free to download and use, with various … Read More “France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech” »
A warrantless wiretapping authority that has facilitated surveillance for decades is up for renewal in Congress. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), last reauthorized in 2024, is set to expire on April 20th. A bipartisan coalition of progressive Democrats and members of the hard-right Freedom Caucus say it’s long overdue for reform. … Read More “Congress may close FISA Section 702’s surveillance loopholes” »
The book is written by Steve Huynh and published by ByteByteGo. Steve is a former principal engineer at Amazon. His ability to break down complex interview dynamics into clear, actionable advice made this book possible. Still, it took us two years to get it ready. Check It Out Now Here’s what’s inside: – 130+ interview … Read More “Our New Book on Behavioral Interviews Is Now Available on Amazon” »
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me. Today, we cover: Does GitHub still merit “top git platform for AI-native development” status? Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not … Read More “is GitHub still best for AI-native development?” »
The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. For NASA, for its international partners, and for all of humanity the successful conclusion of the Artemis II mission marked … Read More “The Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?” »
A better WHOIS lookup tool. Interactive TUI with tabbed views for WHOIS, DNS, mail, SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, and tech stack detection. brew tap retlehs/tap brew install retlehs/tap/quien Or with Go: go install github.com/retlehs/quien@latest # Interactive prompt quien # Domain lookup (interactive TUI) quien example.com # IP address lookup quien 8.8.8.8 # JSON output quien –json … Read More “retlehs/quien: A better WHOIS lookup tool · GitHub” »
