@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-04 21:16:52
Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, vs. $288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12% after hours (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/duolingos
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-01 17:40:54
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh says over a third of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom workers are expected to lose their jobs Monday as new owners take over (Chrissy Suttles/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/pittsburgh/2026/05/01/post-gazette-newsro…
@unixviking@social.linux.pizza2026-04-04 12:10:01
Easter test weekend, initial findings. 😎
:fedora: On Fedora 44 Beta GNOME Edition, the file manager crashes every time I try to access my NAS. There are also frequent freezes with apps that weren’t included by default and were installed later.
:ubuntu: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS also comes with GNOME 50, and unlike Fedora, it already includes kernel 7.0, which is great—especially for the latest hardware. This beta also seems to run more smoothly and stably than Fedora’s beta.
Howev…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-04-01 15:05:51
Ordered an extra VSC8512, the same Ethernet PHY I'm using on my switch project, as microscope food.
I've always been curious what the die looks like especially considering it has a ton of SERDES of several different designs, at least one and possibly two embedded CPUs, a DRAM controller, and is generally a nerfed switch ASIC.
I don't expect to be able to dump the 8051 firmware ROM optically but if I can find at least a rough idea of where it is from the optical images…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-04-30 13:37:21
Check out today's super-packed Metacurity for a concise run-down of the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Nine Dubai scam centers raided in joint US-China operation, 276 arrested,
--White House opposes Anthropic's expansion of Mythos access,
--Oz government warns banks on AI cyberattacks,
--Ukraine arrests three people who allegedly hacked 610k Roblox accounts,
--European celebrity exposed cloud repo with 90k stalkerware scr…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-28 18:10:42
Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers "in the coming weeks" following the development of stronger safeguards (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-opus-release-mythos
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-27 11:13:30
"CISA as a back seat with a focus on cybersecurity is probably the best that we can expect now," James Lewis, a former U.S. cyber diplomat and a fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/cisa-white-house-cybers…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-29 18:40:59
What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more (PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/computex-2026-preview-9-big-reveals-we-expect-at-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-27 11:10:50
Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's "agentic era" is a "bit like a practice run" (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-26 21:25:37
Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/04…
