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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/cyber-group-extorting-executives-with-claims-of-stolen-data
Hackers Extort Executives After Claiming Oracle Apps Breach

Hackers Extort Executives After Claiming Oracle Apps Breach
Executives and technology departments at large organizations are being extorted by a notorious ransomware group that claims to have stolen their data from a suite of popular Oracle Corp. applications.

The #sunspot show goes on: now activity region (1)4274 - which caused a major geostorm last month - has returned onto the disk with the new number (1)4299. And immediately fired off an X1.9 #SolarFlare today: see #SDO HMI image - https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif - of 18:11 UTC, i.e. exactly an hour ago.

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down after 11 years, replaced by Cloudflare President of Product & Engineering Chirantan Desai, effective November 10 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/mongodb-ceo-dev-ittycher…

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria steps down, replaced by Cloudflare executive CJ Desai
Dev Ittycheria, who took MongoDB public in 2017, is leaving the CEO role but will stay on the company's board.

I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.…

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

ich bin der agent boss
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/how-to-be-an-agent-boss

Q&A with Valve executive Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, on quietly funding open-source tech to play Windows games on Arm (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-ar…

Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Valve tells The Verge it’s funding Fex, a key technology that’s letting Arm devices like phones play Windows games.

als hätten wir nicht schon genug probleme
https://www.rnd.de/wissen/erdkern-dreht-sich-jetzt-andersherum-was-bedeutet-das-fuer-uns-ABKDV6GXEBDYDCCTEA62NFUROM.html

Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made "no sense" (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/03/pala…

How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data-mining company’s chief executive.

Apple says its AI chief, John Giannandrea, is stepping down; former Microsoft executive Amar Subramanya will lead AI, reporting to Craig Federighi (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/01/apple-ai-chief-retiring-after-siri-failure/<…

Apple AI Chief John Giannandrea Retiring After Siri Delays
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring 2026, Apple announced today. Giannandrea will serve as an...

Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/0

Michael Saylor and Strategy (MSTR) Raise Cash to Fund Preferred Dividends
Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company also added to its bitcoin holdings last week, bringing its total stack to 650,000 BTC.