Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…
TIL: Der deutsche Staubsauger-Hersteller Vorwerk hat 1986 den Chaos Computer Club verklagt.
Stichwort: Morbus Kobold.
(Sorry, ich lache immer noch...)
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/propeller-am-penis-a-516cb375-0002-0001-0000…
Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, "designed for intentional living", in November (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6a33af09-99a3-49c2-be50-4cc47656903f…
My work days feel more and more like people outwardly employing Pascal’s Wager when talking about genAI, LLMs, agentic whatever fake-AI silliness. Saying the words for their bosses but not feeling it otherwise.
PAIscal’s Wager? Pascal’s wAIger? PascaLLM’s wager?
Iran's soccer president casts doubt on World Cup participation following strikes (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/01/iran-doubt-soccer-world-cup-strikes-00806510
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p72#a260301p72
Follow up reporting on that breaking and entering by CBP in #Utah that led to warrantless kidnapping of the owner as well as the employee they were following.
Thank you, @… for the detailed reporting. Our local paper has removed the paywall on all reporting for 2026, so don…
Cowboys waive two-time Pro Bowl CB Trevon Diggs following six seasons https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-waive-two-time-pro-bowl-cb-trevon-diggs-following-six-seasons
Eye on 2026: Las Vegas prepares for CFP title game https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/adam-hill/eye-on-2026-las-vegas-prepares-for-cfp-title-game-3602886/
Filing: Chinese AI chip startup Biren raises ~$717M in its Hong Kong IPO; institutional and retail tranches were oversubscribed ~26x and ~2,348x, respectively (Himanshi Akhand/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…