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Verizon Offers $20 Credit After Nationwide Outage Stranded Users in SOS Mode For Hours

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via Slashdot

Verizon is offering affected customers a $20 account credit following a nationwide network outage on Wednesday that left users across the US unable to connect, forcing phones into SOS mode for roughly ten hours before the carrier restored service around 10:15PM ET. Customers will receive a text message when the credit becomes available and can redeem it through the myVerizon app by clicking...

AI Has Made Salesforce Engineers More Productive, So the Company Has Stopped Hiring Them, CEO Says

Yesterday at 18:49 PM, via Slashdot

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said this week that his company’s software engineering headcount has remained “mostly flat” over the past year as internal AI tools have delivered substantial productivity gains. Speaking on TBPN, Benioff said he has about 15,000 engineers who are “more productive than ever.” The company has redirected its hiring efforts toward sales and customer engagement roles,...

Ruby on Rails Creator Says AI Coding Tools Still Can’t Match Most Junior Programmers

Yesterday at 18:06 PM, via Slashdot

AI still can’t produce code as well as most junior programmers he’s worked with, David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37 Signals, said on a recent podcast , which is why he continues to write most of his code by hand. Hansson compared AI’s current coding capabilities to “a flickering light bulb” — total darkness punctuated by moments of clarity before going...

China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers

Yesterday at 17:26 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: China is pulling the plug on a key advantage held by high-frequency traders, removing servers dedicated to those firms out of local exchanges’ data centers, according to people familiar with the matter. Commodities futures exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou are among those that have ordered local brokers to shift servers for their clients out of data...

Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September

Yesterday at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

Tom’s Hardware: Extensive research into the pricing of some of the best hard drives on the market for large capacity, economical storage indicates that prices are beginning to increase sharply, with some of the most popular models on the market seeing increases upwards of 60%. According to research from ComputerBase, pricing analysis on 12 of the most popular mainstream drives on the market...

Xgram.io Announces XMR Exchange Services with High Limits

Yesterday at 16:16 PM, via Tech Financials

San Jose, Costa Rica (PinionNewswire) —  Xgram.io, a leading non-custodial multichain cryptocurrency exchange platform, today highlights the full availability of secure and private exchanges for privacy-focused coins, with particular emphasis on seamless Bitcoin (BTC) to Monero (XMR) swaps. Launched in 2023, Xgram.io has rapidly become a trusted choice for users seeking instant,...

Xgram Announces XMR Exchange Services with High Limits

Yesterday at 16:16 PM, via Tech Financials

San Jose, Costa Rica (PinionNewswire) —  Xgram.io, a leading non-custodial multichain cryptocurrency exchange platform, today highlights the full availability of secure and private exchanges for privacy-focused coins, with particular emphasis on seamless Bitcoin (BTC) to Monero (XMR) swaps. Launched in 2023, Xgram.io has rapidly become a trusted choice for users seeking instant,...

Code.org: Use AI In an Interview Without Our OK and You’re Dead To Us

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

theodp writes: Code.org, the nonprofit backed by AI giants Microsoft, Google and Amazon and whose Hour of AI and free AI curriculum aim to make world’s K-12 schoolchildren AI literate, points job seekers to its AI Use Policy in Hiring, which promises dire consequences for those who use AI during interviews or take home assignments without its OK. Explaining “What’s Not Okay,” Code.org writes:...

Amazon Is Buying America’s First New Copper Output In More Than a Decade

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Amazon is turning to an Arizona mine that last year became the first new source of U.S. copper in more than a decade, to meet its data centers’ ravenous appetite for the industrial metal.The mine was restarted as a proving ground for Rio Tinto’s new method of unlocking low-grade copper deposits. Rio signed a two-year supply pact...

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