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Amazon plans to build a local delivery network in 23 states by tapping thousands of small US businesses, such as bodegas and florists, to deliver packages (Hope King/Axios)

Hope King / Axios: Amazon plans to build a local delivery network in 23 states by tapping thousands of small US businesses, such as bodegas and florists, to deliver packages  —  Amazon plans to tap thousands of U.S. small businesses, from bodegas to florists, to deliver its packages by the end of the year, Axios

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A profile of Korean chip engineer Choi Jin-seok, who embarked on a quixotic mission to lead China’s industry after his career stalled and faces IP theft charges (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A profile of Korean chip engineer Choi Jin-seok, who embarked on a quixotic mission to lead China’s industry after his career stalled and faces IP theft charges  —  In 2006, a Korean engineer called Choi Jin-seok achieved a feat that earned him the nickname “master of semiconductor yield”.

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A look at Harry and Meghan’s Hollywood flop in streaming’s era of slower growth; sources: Netflix is unlikely to renew their $100M deal, which runs through 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A look at Harry and Meghan’s Hollywood flop in streaming’s era of slower growth; sources: Netflix is unlikely to renew their $100M deal, which runs through 2025  —  They arrived three years ago with royal star power amid a streaming boom, but have notched more cancellations and rejections than produced shows

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Japan announces a $6.3B deal to buy and privatize JSR, a maker of photoresists that controls the global supply of key chipmaking chemicals with two other firms (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Japan announces a $6.3B deal to buy and privatize JSR, a maker of photoresists that controls the global supply of key chipmaking chemicals with two other firms  —  Japan’s government unveiled a $6.3 billion deal to buy out and privatize JSR Corp., taking direct control of the world leader …

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Red Hat ends the RHEL clones’ free lunch

For decades Red Hat has led the enterprise Linux market, but as popular as its eponymous Linux distribution might be, CentOS 7 is orders of magnitude more widely used—20 times as popular, by my back-of-the-envelope estimate. And while CentOS once masqueraded as a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone, the company changed all that in

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AI is my copilot

Our role as software engineers is on the cusp of a fundamental transformation, driven by now widely available large language models (LLMs), deployed as generative AI. (I’ll avoid for now the question of whether this is actually artificial intelligence, but there’s no question these LLMs have some impressive capabilities.) As I write this, ChatGPT is

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When low-code and no-code can accelerate app modernization

Chances are, your organization is looking to modernize legacy applications, break down monolithic application architectures into services, and migrate to public or private cloud infrastructure. Along the way, you might also want to improve user experience, create CI/CD pipelines, add test automation, and implement a slew of other devops best practices. To read this article

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White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge President Joe Biden is getting closer to distributing more than $40 billion in funding to support broadband expansion nationwide as part of his administration’s goal to connect all Americans to high-speed internet by 2030. The funding, authorized in Biden’s 2021 bipartisan infrastructure package, will be distributed proportionally to

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Blind: ~56% of US tech workers would accept equal or less pay in a new role, and ~45% of those say the uncertain job market is the main reason they would do so (Grace Kay/Insider)

Grace Kay / Insider: Blind: ~56% of US tech workers would accept equal or less pay in a new role, and ~45% of those say the uncertain job market is the main reason they would do so  —  – The majority of tech workers in a Blind survey said they’d accept equal or lower pay. 

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Q&A with Microsoft’s Jared Spataro on AI tools advancing knowledge work, increasing worker creativity, being “usefully wrong”, automating work away, and more (Kevin J. Delaney/Charter)

Kevin J. Delaney / Charter: Q&A with Microsoft’s Jared Spataro on AI tools advancing knowledge work, increasing worker creativity, being “usefully wrong”, automating work away, and more  —  Microsoft over the past few years has released some of the most interesting research about how people work …

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A profile of Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta, which has an ~$80M ARR, a $1.6B valuation, and raised $203M (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta, which has an ~$80M ARR, a $1.6B valuation, and raised $203M  —  The Stanford graduate built a fast-growing software company to automate what had previously been a manual process.

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A More Conspicuous Computer Assistant

Back in the last century, especially in the ’40s to the ’60s, one of the major home decor trends was to install various home appliances, like the television or stereo, into its own piece of furniture. These were usually bulky, awkward, and incredibly heavy. And, since real life inspires art, most of the futuristic sci-fi

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NYC says the MOVEit flaw exposed ~45K students’ data, following March 2022’s breach of ~820K students’ data via the Illuminate Education grading software hack (Jessica Gould/Gothamist)

Jessica Gould / Gothamist: NYC says the MOVEit flaw exposed ~45K students’ data, following March 2022’s breach of ~820K students’ data via the Illuminate Education grading software hack  —  We rely on your support to make local news available to all  —  Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.

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An interview with early Waze investors Yahal Zilka and Ehud Levy on why they invested, the impact of Google’s acquisition on Israel’s tech industry, and more (Yuval Mann/Ynetnews)

Yuval Mann / Ynetnews: An interview with early Waze investors Yahal Zilka and Ehud Levy on why they invested, the impact of Google’s acquisition on Israel’s tech industry, and more  —  The disregard for map companies, the dilemma between BlackBerry and iPhone, the indifference on the part of Tim Cook …

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