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@… I was just out this morning and it is all over all the trains. I did not spot any ads that were not for this crap.

Memo: Intel's manufacturing VP said Intel plans to cut 15%-20% of staff, starting in July, "to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position" (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/…

Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its factory workers, memo says
Next month’s layoffs will take place at Intel factories around the world but could have an especially big effect in Oregon.

https://www.scworld.com/news/half-of-organizations-struggle-to-locate-backup-data-report-finds
Half of organizations struggle to locate backup data, report finds

Half of organizations struggle to locate backup data, report finds
Outdated cloud backup management strategies pose data loss and ransomware risks.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5524 nodes and 94219 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Chesterton’s Fence and paralysing your organization
https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-07-11-chestertons-fence-and-paralysing-your-organization/?utm_source=programming

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Added a customizable 2D vector field plot function for #ThingUmbrella

Declarative, functional & multi-format data visualization toolkit based around @thi.ng/hiccup

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/0

Former Intel engineer sentenced for stealing trade secrets for Microsoft
Varun Gupta, now 45, apologized to Intel and Microsoft, as well as the government for the time and resources it has spent “because of my bad decision.”

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

The Midas Project and Tech Oversight Project release The OpenAI Files, a 50 page analysis of OpenAI's governance, leadership, and organizational culture (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/openai/688783/the

The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
Two tech industry watchdog organizations released a research report called the OpenAI Files that covers OpenAI’s corporate structure, its restructuring to a for-profit organization, CEO Sam Altman’s portfolio of investment companies, and more.