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HackerPulse wants to help enterprises spot engineering bottlenecks Mar 05, 2025

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HackerPulse builds dashboards of information pulled from engineering tools to show how and where engineers spend their time.

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Mark Cuban offers to fund government tech unit that was cut in the middle of the night Mar 04, 2025

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Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, posting an unexpected offer of support for newly laid-off federal workers on the social network Bluesky. His message, which quickly gained traction, urged the displaced engineers and designers to turn the upheaval to their advantage.

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Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025 Mar 04, 2025

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After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams.

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Mozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it’s not using people’s data for AI Mar 03, 2025

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Mozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser’s new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for using overly broad language that appears to give the browser maker the rights to whatever data you input or upload.

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Taktile helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows Mar 03, 2025

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The automated logic behind many financial decisions — for example, decisions that determine whether a client is approved for a credit line — is hard-coded.

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Lonestar and Phison’s data center infrastructure is headed to the moon Feb 28, 2025

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Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a diffusion-based large language model, or a “DLM” for short.

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Regie.ai injects sales enablement with AI, but keeps humans in the loop Feb 28, 2025

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There’s no sure-fire approach to sales enablement, the process of providing a sales team with the resources it needs to close deals. Some teams are deficient on the prospecting side — that is, identifying and contacting potential customers. Others require help getting deals over the finish line.

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Framework’s first desktop PC is optimized for gaming and local AI inference Feb 27, 2025

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Framework, the company that is better known for its modular, repairable laptops, just released its first desktop computer. It’s a small desktop PC that punches above its weight. The most interesting part is what’s inside the device. Framework is one of the first companies to use AMD’s recently announced Strix Halo architecture.

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Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps Feb 27, 2025

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On Tuesday, Google introduced a new, free consumer version of its AI code completion and assistance tool, Gemini Code Assist, and which the company calls Gemini Code Assist for Individuals. The company also rolled out Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, a code review “agent” designed to automatically look for bugs in code and offer suggestions

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Adobe launches a Photoshop iPhone app Feb 26, 2025

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Adobe announced on Tuesday it’s bringing its popular design and editing software Photoshop to mobile, starting with iOS. The company plans to launch a Photoshop for Android app later this year. With the new Photoshop for iPhone app, users can access both free and paid features through a mobile-friendly design that’s accessible on the go.

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