Salesforce Drops DEI Commitments, Reframes Equality as Legal Compliance

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Salesforce removes DEI commitments from its latest filing, shifting focus to legal compliance with equal pay and anti-discrimination laws.

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI agents as “putting your brain in a jar,” and cautioned that this new paradigm of computing — […]
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Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several program and payload milestones” and deploy a few of the experiments that were riding shotgun before Athena’s lander ran out of juice. The […]
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‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

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Apple delays Siri AI improvements to 2026

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

“It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year,” the company said Friday.

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Discord is discussing an IPO

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Discord is in early stage discussions with bankers to IPO.
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Trump’s ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’ Plan Comes With a Twist

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Rather than buy bitcoin directly, Donald Trump’s plan calls for holding the US government’s current bitcoin assets in reserve—and creates a separate stockpile for other crypto coins.

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Women in Cyber Security on the Rise, But Facing More Layoffs and Budget Cuts Than Men

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

In 2024, women accounted for 22% of global security teams on average, compared to 17% in 2023, according to ISC2.

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Google debuts a new Gemini-based text embedding model

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Google on Friday added a new, experimental “embedding” model for text, Gemini Embedding, to its Gemini developer API. Embedding models translate text inputs like words and phrases into numerical representations, known as embeddings, that capture the semantic meaning of the text. Embeddings are used in a range of applications, such as document retrieval and classification, […]
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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires one-million-square-foot property in Memphis

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has acquired a one-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI data center footprint, according to a press release from the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. The new land will host infrastructure to complement xAI’s existing Memphis data center. “xAI’s acquisition of this property ensures we’ll remain at the forefront […]
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