‘Pew Pew’: The Chinese Companies Marketing Anti-Drone Weapons on TikTok
On TikTok, Chinese manufacturers are advertising signal-blocking weapons with the breezy cadence of consumer lifestyle advertising.
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Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.
Read moreUpgrade Your Computer Speakers With These Discounted Edifier M60s
These compact Edifier speakers may not be the fanciest, but they’ll blow your monitor’s built-in speakers out of the water.
Read moreGoogle’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great
Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Gemini Pro model. While it’s not the best at every task, Gemini 3.1 Pro, which is officially...
Read moreAfter Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions
Siminoff acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times that including maps that showed mass surveillance in an ad was a mistake. | Screenshot from...
Read moreFrom chickens to humans, animals think “bouba” sounds round
Does “bouba” sound round to you? How about “maluma”? Neither are real words, but we’ve known for decades that people who hear them tend to associate...
Read moreFixing a Destroyed XBox 360 Development Kit
As common as the Xbox 360 was, the development kits (XDKs) for these consoles are significantly less so. This makes it even more tragic when someone...
Read moreCode Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI
The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.
Read morePerplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it’s betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.
Read moreThe Pulse #162: Even fewer middle managers and more flexible teams?
Note: after a two-week hiatus, The Pulse returns. The absence was due to organizing and hosting The Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco. You can access The...
Read moreSony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes of games like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls, according to Bloomberg. The...
Read moreTwilio’s A2H is a new protocol that helps agents talk to humans
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a proliferation of frameworks and protocols for agentic AI tools. There is Agent-2-Agent (A2A) for agents to talk...
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