US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide
https://www.ft.com/content/6542bd0c-59ca-493b-ab5d-2d69e4e00cae
https://www.ft.com/content/6542bd0c-59ca-493b-ab5d-2d69e4e00cae
Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/how-palantir-and-anthropic-ai-helped-the-us-hit-1-000-iran-targets-in-24-hours-article-13853331.html
https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/how-palantir-and-anthropic-ai-helped-the-us-hit-1-000-iran-targets-in-24-hours-article-13853331.html
PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/pc-processors-entered-the-gigahertz-era-today-in-the-year-2000-with-amds-athlon-amd-hit-marketing-gold-with-its-1-ghz-athlon-beat-intel-by-a-nose
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/pc-processors-entered-the-gigahertz-era-today-in-the-year-2000-with-amds-athlon-amd-hit-marketing-gold-with-its-1-ghz-athlon-beat-intel-by-a-nose
Tom's Hardware
PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon…
Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.
Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code
https://fazy.medium.com/agentic-coding-ais-adolescence-b0d13452f981
https://fazy.medium.com/agentic-coding-ais-adolescence-b0d13452f981
Medium
Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code
I’ve forgotten how to write code, or at least I think I have. Hard to be sure, I haven’t done it for a while. But then, I start to muse…
We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're Not Robots
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/
Techdirt
We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Ku…
War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/polymarket-insider-trading-going-get-people-killed/686283/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/polymarket-insider-trading-going-get-people-killed/686283/
The Atlantic
Insider Trading Is Going to Get People Killed
War markets are a national-security threat.
Senators Launch Effort Ban Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officials-profiting-from-prediction-markets/
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officials-profiting-from-prediction-markets/
Merkley
Merkley, Klobuchar Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets - Merkley
Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran Strikes, Venezuela Military Actions Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar launched a new effort to…
Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?
https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper
https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper
slashdot.org
Does Apple's M5 Max Really "Destroy" a 96-Core Threadripper?
Tom's Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper.Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6 multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions…
Why developers using AI are working longer hours
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/
Scientific American
Why developers using AI are working longer hours
Studies find AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live
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Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/iranian-women-graduate-in-stem-at
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/iranian-women-graduate-in-stem-at
Substack
Iranian Women Graduate in STEM at Nearly 3× the Rate of U.S. Women — and Has 5× More PhD Students Per Capita
Iranian women make up 58% of PhD Students. Tuition is Free. So Why is the U.S. Lecturing Iran about Women’s Rights?