DoorDash, the food delivery app based out of San Francisco, is requiring all its nondelivery employees, including CEO Tony Xu, to do a “dash” once a month — and some employees are seemingly furious. SFGate reports: MarketWatch first reported that the WeDash program, which was launched when the service was Read more…
“If you’ve visited a crypto company’s website recently, you’ve probably visited a URL ending in âoe.xyzâ instead of its cheugier counterpart, .com,” writes Anita Ramaswamy via TechCrunch. “From fintech Block, formerly known as Square, to venture firm Paradigm, to blockchain startups like Mirror, .xyz has become the go-to URL ending Read more…
Render creator Ian Zelbo has shared a trio of high-quality product renders of Apple’s upcoming AR/VR headset that’s expected to arrive in the fourth quarter of 2022. “The renders are based on earlier reporting from The Information and showcase the device in crisp 8K images,” reports Screen Rant. “Zelbo’s previously Read more…
“While the lack of funding in open source is certainly a problem, could funding have prevented the Log4j vulnerabilities?” asks Mike Melanson’s “This Week in Programming” column. “Would funding actually prevent similar vulnerabilities in the future…?” Or is that an oversimplification? In a blog post for the Linux Foundation’s Open Read more…
“We have LIFTOFF of the @NASAWebb Space Telescope!” NASA tweeted seven hours ago, sharing a 32-second video of the launch. “At 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC), the beginning of a new, exciting decade of science climbed to the sky,” they wrote, adding that the telescope “will change our understanding of space Read more…
Some American colleges and universities are cutting entire departments. The ostensible reason provided for these cuts and terminations is “prioritization,” a term used by university administrators to rank which programs deserve funding and attention. One such “prioritization” committee at St. Joseph’s College in New York described it as a ranking Read more…
Hyperion Entertainment announced the immediate availability of a new and updated Software Developer Kit (SDK) for the latest version of AmigaOS 4.1 (PPC Amigas). (i.e. after applying all the publicly released updates). Also on December 21, 2021, Hyperion Entertainment released the first free update for AmigaOS 3.2 (68k classic Amigas). Read more…