Advice for how to (and how not to) apply for a software engineering job, particularly for the written parts of the interview process. As a bonus, some tips for your resume/CV.

Judge looking into alleged hacking of ministers’ phones with NSO Group spyware says Israel has not responded to requests

The US Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said she plans to reinstate net neutrality oversight of broadband providers that was rescinded under former president Donald Trump.

We need to talk about the Google Ngram Viewer n-grams. They are wrong. [D.R.H.]

Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you.

Vicious Self-Degradation

> you Google
> Quora spots query and id’s as frequent
> Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer
> ChatGPT hallucinates
> Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer
> ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical…

Security researchers discovered a multi-step information stealing campaign where hackers breach the systems of hotels, booking sites, and travel agencies and then use their access to go after financial data belonging to customers.

In case you missed the news, there's a critical 0day in WebP (a heap buffer overflow in the libwepb library) floating about, which was initially issued as

AirGradient air quality monitoring.

Venture capital isn’t the necessity it once was for tech startups. We've chosen to bootstrap because it gives us flexibility in the way we build. Here's why.

Google announced this morning it will be shutting down its Google Podcasts app later in 2024 as part of its broader transition to move its streaming listeners over to YouTube Music. The company earlier this year announced YouTube Music would begin supporting…

DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. DuckDB has no external dependencies. DuckDB has bindings for C/C++, Python, R, Java, Node.js, Go and other…

For many freelancers and small businesses, the result will amount to a 10% increase in taxes.

Cue is expected to testify that Apple picked the Google search engine as an iPhone default because it was the best product.

Unity has done a 180 on a controversial new pricing scheme that users of its cross-platform game engine almost unanimously disparaged. A new pricing policy is still incoming, but it’s far less fraught for independent developers, many of whom threatened to…