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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-18 17:55:57

TerraPower, which develops small modular nuclear reactors, raised $650M from investors including Nvidia's NVentures and TerraPower co-founder Bill Gates (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)
geekwire.com/2025/terrapower-l

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-06 02:29:25

Bill Gates Vows To Give Most Of His $200 Billion Fortune To Africa | Atlanta Daily World
atlantadailyworld.com/2025/06/

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-09 12:30:40

Army video of parade prep appeared to show 'Hang Fauci' graffiti (Olivia George/Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/national-se
memeorandum.com/250609/p24#a25

@curiouscat@fosstodon.org
2025-06-16 17:43:17

“Toyama’s research reminds us that there are few one-size-fits-all solutions. If technology is going to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, it must be grounded in a deep understanding of human behavior and an appreciation for cultural differences.”
— Bill Gates

Creating Technology Solutions that are Appropriate Given the System Context - The W. Edwards Deming Institute
By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Kentaro Toyama's presentation at the 2016 Annual Deming Institute Conference - Geek Heresy: Technology's Law of Amplification From the website for Kentaro's book, Geek Heresy “Toyama’s research reminds us that there are few one-size-fits-all solutions. If technology is going to improve the lives of…

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-05-05 18:16:54

"Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill’s mother, was appointed to the board of directors of the national United Way in 1980. And guess who else was in that committee? The late John Opel, president, chairman, and CEO of…, you guessed it, IBM, between 1974 and 1986."
deprogrammaticaipsum.com/gary-

Gary Kildall
I had a revelation during the preparation of this article. Legend has it that Gary Kildall, as Forbes put it, "could have been Bill Gates", if it were not that he was busy flying his airplane the day IBM knocked on the door. Most analysts dealing with this foundational moment in computing history, however, leave aside a particular piece of information, which I think explains why IBM chose Microsoft over Digital Research as the provider for the operating system of the original IBM PC, even thoug…

@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-04 15:07:17

Making Firefox/Mozilla dependent on money from Google was a gigantic misstep. It should never have happened.
Firefox has become an alibi for Google against claims of monopolistic behavior. It is a repeat of how Bill Gates saved Apple except that Firefox seems to be on permanently boxed in by Google.
#Firefox

@jonix@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-08 15:28:51

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Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of “killing” children with DOGE-led USAID cuts "The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/bill-gates-accuses-elon-musk-of-killing-children-with-doge-led-usaid-cuts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-05-29 10:12:52

"Bill Gates has never received a résumé from anyone who read all of TAOCP. There’s an urban legend (now sadly debunked) that Steve Jobs told Knuth he had “read all of his books”, to which Knuth replied “you are full of crap”.
While that tale is not true, nobody including Steve Jobs can say that they have read all of TAOCP. The reason is simple: it isn’t finished yet."

The Art Of "The Art Of Computer Programming"
A quote from the cover of Volume One of Professor Donald Knuth's Magnum Opus, "The Art of Computer Programming (3rd edition)": "If you think you're a really good programmer… read (Knuth's) Art of Computer Programming… You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing." "Me" here refers to the author of the quote, Bill Gates.

@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc
2025-05-23 19:32:51

„Immer mehr Anleger sehen in Agrarflächen einen sicheren Hafen und einen wirksamen Schutz gegen eine inflationäre Geldpolitik. Land ist nicht beliebig vermehrbar, und die Nachfrage danach steigt kontinuierlich, ob durch Siedlungsbau, Verkehr oder die Energiewende. Seit der Finanzkrise ist das Interesse an stabilen Sachwerten stark gewachsen und neben Gold rückt dabei Ackerland zunehmend in den Fokus.“

Wie Ackerland zur sicheren Kapitalanlage wird
Agrarflächen sind in Deutschland begehrt – und immer knapper. Land gilt als exzellenter Inflationsschutz, fristet als Anlage aber ein Nischendasein. Investoren wie Bill Gates haben das Potential längst erkannt.