Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup ‘2Brains Inc’ to Solve LLM Hallucinations
Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus — and it’s not just because of a heart attack and a stroke last July:

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Brian Johnson, Special Effects Artist Behind ‘Space: 1999,’ Dies At 86
Special-effects designer Brian Johnson, known for his groundbreaking work on Space: 1999, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Aliens, has died at the age of 86. Johnson began his career creating models and explosions for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions, later designed the iconic Eagle Transporter, and became one of science f … ⌘ Read more

‘It’s going to be tough for us’: How Harry Kewell sees Socceroos v Turkey
The Australian great played in the Turkish league for Galatasaray at the peak of his career. He says the Socceroos’ first-up opponents will provide a stern test. ⌘ Read more

‘Not something I’m proud of’: Eels star breaks silence on photo scandal
Isaiah Iongi says he has learnt a valuable lesson about being a role model after the first hiccup in a promising NRL career. ⌘ Read more

Steven Spielberg Wanted to Direct 1 Major Franchise but Got Rejected Repeatedly
Steven Spielberg spent years quietly chasing a single franchise, only to be turned away every time he asked. The Disclosure Day director has now spoken about the repeated rejections. He revealed how one producer’s firm “no” altered the course of his career. The franchise Steven Spielberg spent years trying to join Spielberg traced his ambition […]

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Hannah Berner Finally Reflects on Her Summer House Firing After 5 Years
Summer House alum Hannah Berner recently reflected on her departure from Summer House in 2021. She said the experience ultimately helped shape her career in stand-up comedy. Since then, Berner has become a prominent figure in comedy and has released a Netflix special, We Ride At Dawn. Hannah Berner opens up about her Summer House […]

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Bryan Cranston Teases Potentially ‘Career-Destroying’ The Studio Season 2 Scene
Bryan Cranston has teased a bizarre new moment from The Studio Season 2. The actor says an upcoming Oscars-related scene could leave fans stunned. Fresh off the show’s successful first season, Cranston hinted that one sequence might either elevate his career or completely backfire. He shared the comments while discussing several projects with longtime Vince […]

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Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/v0S1AEG-founding-growth-marketer

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Lesley Stahl Says CBS News Firings Are the ‘Hardest Chapter’ of Her Career
Lesley Stahl has described the recent wave of firings at CBS News as the lowest point in her 50-year-long career. The remarks follow the removal of seven staff members from the flagship programme 60 Minutes. Why Lesley Stahl believes the 60 Minutes crisis is unprecedented The veteran correspondent said the upheaval that began late last […]

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Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
In 2019, Alex Vindman testified during President Trump’s first impeachment trial–a decision that ended his military career. Now he wants to challenge the president from the halls of Congress. ⌘ Read more

Richard Gere Is ‘Proud’ of Son Homer Amid Euphoria Role, Talks Retirement
Richard Gere opened up about his son Homer‘s acting career. Homer recently appeared in Euphoria Season 3 and will be seen next on the series The Shards. Richard Gere reacts to his son Homer’s growing acting career In his interview with PEOPLE, Richard Gere opened up about his son Homer’s acting career. “I’m proud of […]

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Career criminal jailed for eight years
A career criminal who deliberately mowed down a South Australian police officer has been jailed for eight years. ⌘ Read more

Job: Head of Stonehenge
Article URL: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers-with-us/job-search/default-job-page/?jobRef=16449

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This Socceroos veteran doesn’t get recognised much at home. In Turkey, even his sister does
Aziz Behich grew up obsessed with Turkish football, built a career there and became a champion. Now he is preparing to face the country of his parents’ origin at the World Cup. ⌘ Read more

The Batman 2 Delays Were the Best Thing to Happen to Robert Pattinson’s Career
The Batman 2 has faced a number of delays leading up to its release. While they weren’t fun for fans, the delays have helped Robert Pattinson’s career in a major way. Robert Pattinson will reprise his role as Batman in the movie, with other cast members from the original film also returning, including Colin Farrell’s […]

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Patrick Godfrey of Ever After & Les Misérables Fame Dies
Patrick Godfrey, known for his roles in Ever After and Les Misérables, has died at the age of 93. The actor’s London-based agency, Markham, Froggatt & Irwin, announced his passing on Thursday. The veteran actor began his career in the 1970s and made his final screen appearance in a voice role in 2018’s Mowgli: Legend […]

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Replies to comments on my “LLMs are eroding my career” post
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9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring
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Cape Fear Gives Patrick Wilson a Full Circle Moment With Kate Winslet’s Son
Patrick Wilson recently spoke about the full circle moment in his acting career after he appeared alongside Kate Winslet’s son, Joe Anders, in the latest Apple TV+ series, Cape Fear. Two decades back, Wilson worked with the Academy Award-winning actress in the satirical melodrama film, Little Children. Patrick Wilson discusses working with Kate Winslet’s son […]

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Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers
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Paul Rudd Wanted a Very Different Role in Clueless but Got Josh Instead
Paul Rudd recently reflected on his role in Clueless, one of the most notable early acting jobs in his career. In a recent interview, the actor opened up about initially wanting to play a different role than Josh. Paul Rudd thought Christian was the coolest character in Clueless Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Paul Rudd […]

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Jennifer Garner Details Big Career Challenges After Ben Affleck Split
Jennifer Garner opened up about the “upheaval” in her family life following her split from Ben Affleck in 2015. Initially, she reflected on the time spent navigating pregnancy and recovery before explaining how she temporarily stepped back from her career to focus on raising her children. Now that she has resumed her acting career, she […]

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Shania Twain Movie Gets Big Update as Director Is Announced
Sony Pictures’ Shania Twain movie has finally found its director. The biopic will chronicle the life and career of the five-time Grammy Award-winning and renowned country pop star. Plot details are still kept under wraps at the moment. Who is directing the Shania Twain movie? Leah McKendrick has been confirmed as the writer and director […]

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MOVE Logistics pays tribute to founder Jim Ramsay
MOVE Logistics has paid tribute to founder Jim Ramsay, who has died.

Described by the NZX-listed firm as a pioneer of the trucking and logistics industry, Ramsay had a 50-year career during which he bought New Plymouth-based trucking company Hooker Bros in 1988, growing this 30-truck business through acquisitions into the Transport Investments Group, now called MOVE Logistics. ⌘ Read more

No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-workers-career-nyu-study-a81a7d9c

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You can basically think of this as pattern-matching. I’m very very good at very fast pattern matching and piecing pices of a puzzle together very quickly, sometimes with very little to go on, it’s often gotten me into a lot of trouble at work in my career because I can make a lot of assumptions very very quickly.

QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, May 27
Which range of hills forms a natural border between Scotland and England?
Titan and Pandora are moons of which planet?
Which famous artist`s career stretched from 1895 to his death in 1973?
Which American president ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb?
The song Moon River appeared in which 1961 film?
What does the word “forte” mean in music? Soft, fast or loud?
What colour is the Ferrari emblem’s background?
How many players make up a volleyball team?
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Quiz: Will AI Destroy Your Career?
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My Net Worth: Caroline Harvie-Teare, Venues Ōtautahi CEO
Caroline Harvie-Teare is a Cantabrian through and through. She grew up in Dunsandel, competed in the South Island horse-riding championships, and has spent much of her career serving the city she loves.

I grew up on a 2,500-acre (1,000ha) farm in Dunsandel for the first seven years of my life. Farm life’s pretty simple – it’s a pretty happy time. My dad built a really cool go-kart for my two older brother … ⌘ Read more

AI requires us to take ‘considered risks’ – Deloitte CEO
We are living through one of the most significant technological shifts in our careers, and it is happening at a rapid pace, Mike Horne, chief executive of Deloitte New Zealand, told Techweek26 attendees.

There was a palpable sense at the conference that the pace of technological innovation had accelerated to the point where its many potential impacts were becoming hard to comprehend. ⌘ Read more

A Master’s Degree Isn’t the Job Guarantee It Used To Be
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Going back to grad school has long been the Plan B of young professionals who aspire to climb higher in their careers or struggle to get promoted in a tough job market. New data show that getting a master’s degree isn’t the guarantee it used to be. The unemployment rate for workers under 35 with a mas … ⌘ Read more

TopResume Packages: Everything You Need to Get Hired
Discover ways to save at TopResume, including their free review service and 4-week Career Services Platform trial. ⌘ Read more

IBM Plans To Triple Entry-Level Hiring in the US
IBM said it will triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026, even as AI appears to be weighing on broader demand for early-career workers. From a report: While the company declined to disclose specific hiring figures, it said the expansion will be “across the board,” affecting a wide range of departments. “And yes, it’s for all these jobs that we’re being told AI can do,” said Nickl … ⌘ Read more

PowerShell Architect Retires After Decades At the Prompt
Jeffrey Snover, the driving force behind PowerShell, has retired after a career that reshaped Windows administration. The Register reports: Snover’s retirement comes after a brief sojourn at Google as a Distinguished Engineer, following a lengthy stint at Microsoft, during which he pulled the company back from imposing a graphical user interface (GUI) on adminis … ⌘ Read more

AI Boosts Research Careers But Flattens Scientific Discovery
Ancient Slashdot reader erice shares the findings from a recent study showing that while AI helped researchers publish more often and boosted their careers, the resulting papers were, on average, less useful. “You have this conflict between individual incentives and science as a whole,” says James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago who … ⌘ Read more

‘White-Collar Workers Shouldn’t Dismiss a Blue-Collar Career Change’
White-collar workers stuck in a cycle of layoffs and stagnant wages might want to look past the traditional tech, finance and media job postings to an unexpected source of opportunity: the blue-collar sector, which faces a labor shortage and is seeing rapid transformation through private-equity investment. These jobs are generally less vulnerable … ⌘ Read more

Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US ‘Extraordinary’ Artist Visas
The O-1B visa, a work permit reserved for individuals deemed to possess “extraordinary ability” in the arts, has become the pathway of choice for social media influencers and OnlyFans models seeking to build careers in the United States. Immigration attorneys told the Financial Times that influencers now make up more than half their … ⌘ Read more

People of Dubious Character Are More Likely To Enter Public Service
A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master’s theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside.

John Liu and co-authors analyzed 6 million dissertations from CNKI, a … ⌘ Read more

Warren Buffett Retires As Berkshire Hathaway CEO After 55 Years
Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 95, ending a 55-year run that reshaped how generations of Americans think about investing. “The 95-year-old, often referred to as the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ and the ‘billionaire next door,’ will relinquish the title after a career that saw him turn a failing textile firm into one of the most … ⌘ Read more

Cybersecurity Employees Plead Guilty To Ransomware Attacks
Two cybersecurity professionals who spent their careers defending organizations against ransomware attacks have pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to using ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware to extort American businesses throughout 2023.

Ryan Goldberg, a 40-year-old incident response manager from Georgia, and Kevin Martin, a 36-year-old ransomware negotiator f … ⌘ Read more

I quit LinkedIn
I recently quit LinkedIn. Ironically, the post I made about why I was
quitting was probably the most viewed thing I ever posted. Haha.

If you need to see my CV it’s right here on my website:

https://hack.org/~mc/cv.html

This is what I wrote back in November:

I’m terminating my account on LinkedIn next week. This is possibly
some kind of career suicide.

I’m very seldom visiting LinkedIn, so I’m probably late to the party,
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US Tech Force Aims To Recruit 1,000 Technologists
The Trump administration announced Monday the United States Tech Force, a new program to recruit around 1,000 technologists for two-year government stints starting as soon as March – less than a year after dismantling several federal technology teams and driving thousands of tech workers out of their jobs.

The program will primarily recruit early-career software engineers an … ⌘ Read more

Latest move in colourful MP’s career gets mixed reviews from voters
There are mixed feelings amongst voters in the New England electorate as they digest the news that local MP Barnaby Joyce has defected from the Nationals to One Nation. ⌘ Read more

Birds of a Feather star Pauline Quirke’s son sets out on 140km dementia charity walk
Charlie Quirke’s fundraising walk will take in “iconic” locations from his mum’s life and career. ⌘ Read more

Sixers down Strikers in final-ball thriller to secure WBBL finals berth
Ellyse Perry produced one of the best knocks of her career but the Sydney Sixers took until the final ball to see off the Adelaide Strikers and land a WBBL finals spot. ⌘ Read more

Caught-and-bowled king Neser feared his Test career was over
Bowling all-rounder Michael Neser is back and taking vital wickets after beginning to think he had played his last Test match for Australia. ⌘ Read more

Paralympian returns to sport after 25 years to help next generation of athletes
When Mellissa Dunn was starting her wheelchair basketball career in Darwin in the 1990s, she felt she had to do everything on her own. Three decades later, the silver-medallist Paralympian says the support now being offered to the next generation of para-athletes is “life-changing”. ⌘ Read more

Alas, poor Usman: Ashes injury may end Khawaja’s Test career
After another slashing partnership between openers Travis Head and Jake Weatherald, the future of Usman Khawaja in the Test arena appears to be getting murkier. ⌘ Read more

**Memorable O’Sullivan moments as snooker great turns 50 **
As Ronnie O’Sullivan turns 50, BBC Sport picks out 10 great moments from his career - and it could have been many more. ⌘ Read more

‘You can’t get sent off in boxing’: Why Asofa-Solomona walked away from NRL
Former Melbourne enforcer Nelson Asofa-Solomona reveals how he fell out of love with rugby league and turned down lucrative contract offers to pursue a career in boxing. ⌘ Read more