Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.

Meet the 'too good to be true' portable charger. Here's my general buying advice for these types of products.

Microsoft set a record with its June Patch Tuesday release, addressing 206 CVEs across its products and shipping fixes for them, with 38 deemed critical and the rest important. Three are listed as publicly known, but none (so far) have been exploited in the wild. We...

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There is a tell. Every senior engineer, every product lead, and every editor who reviews a lot of documents has learned to spot it within two paragraphs. The tell is not bad writing exactly. It is the absence of a person. The sentences are clean. The structure is...

Salesforce is undergoing another round of layoffs, its second this year, according to a filing with California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification office. The notice filed on Monday stated that 86 employees would be laid off from its Mission Street office...

Two and a half years. Forty-something legacy systems. One new platform on EKS. By any external measure, the program was a success: it shipped, it absorbed the legacy, the lights stayed on. By any internal measure, the first year was a mess; we're lucky we recovered...

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GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

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I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?

If your phone is too compelling, your sex life might not be. American birth rates have been declining for nearly two decades now, and researchers believe they’ve identified a potential new culprit: The iPhone. That’s right: A National Bureau of Economic Research...

Justin McLeod, the founder of Hinge and CEO at Overtone is a modern tech leader who openly acknowledges the emotional weight of building a company centered on human relationships. This is his truth about leadership.

AI Search Visibility and GEO Tools: Key Takeaways Most GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tools fail to improve AI search visibility because they focus on measuring where brands appear in AI-generated answers rather than increasing AI citations across systems like...

We’re inundated with data, but for many people, finding a way to make sense of it is elusive. But when it comes to health data, one company thinks it’s found a way to help: with weekly, AI-generated personal podcasts for users, updating users on their latest health...

Maybe they're not going to be the next Neil Armstrong, but they're pushing closer than anyone has in over 50 years.

:::tip Stages 0-5 were covered in the first part of this article. Read it here: The AI Adoption Curve Nobody Warned Me About - Part 1 ::: Stage 6 — Hackathons as a distribution channel We ran a series of internal hackathons. The output was pretty strict: it should be...

You have a big algorithmic method. Let's break it. TL;DR: Long methods are bad. Move them and break them. Problems Addressed 😔 Lack of Testability Accidental Complexity Testing Private Methods Related Code Smells 💨...