Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts
Microsoft is toeing the line in Trump’s America. Microsoft is toeing the line in Trump’s America. by Tom Warren Dec 4, 2025, 7:00 PM UTC Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has been publishing data about […]
Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
A strong earthquake has struck northern Japan. The quake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture at 11:15 p.m. on Monday. Its focus was 50 kilometers deep, and the magnitude is estimated at 7.6. Strong tremors were felt across the region. Tremors with an intensity of upper 6 on the Japanese intensity scale of […]
Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
Note: This post was updated with additional details regarding AWS Lambda. Last year we announced basic support for Python Workers, allowing Python developers to ship Python to region: Earth in a single command and take advantage of the Workers platform. Since then, we’ve been hard at work making the Python experience on Workers feel great. […]
Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License Prices
New Microsoft 365 Pricing Goes into Effect on July 1, 2026 On December 4, 2025, Microsoft announced a range of price increases for Microsoft 365 monthly licenses. The new pricing (Figure 1) goes into effect from July 1, 2026, the start of Microsoft’s FY27 fiscal year. Figure 1: Microsoft 365 License pricing from July 1, […]
IBM to Acquire Confluent
We are excited to announce that Confluent has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by IBM. After the transaction is closed (subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals), together, IBM and Confluent will aim to provide a platform that unifies the world’s largest enterprises, unlocking data for cloud/microservices, accelerating time-to-value, and building […]
Alignment Is Capability
Here’s a claim that might actually be true: alignment is not a constraint on capable AI systems. Alignment is what capability is at sufficient depth. A model that aces benchmarks but doesn’t understand human intent is just less capable. Virtually every task we give an LLM is steeped in human values, culture, and assumptions. Miss […]
Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB
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How the Brain Parses Language
Even in a world where large language models (LLMs) and AI chatbots are commonplace, it can be hard to fully accept that fluent writing can come from an unthinking machine. That’s because, to many of us, finding the right words is a crucial part of thought — not the outcome of some separate process. But […]
Nango (YC W23) is hiring back-end engineers and dev-rels (remote)
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Bad Dye Job
In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company1), I wrote: It sounds like Dye chose to jump ship, and wasn’t squeezed out (as it seems with former AI chief John Giannandrea earlier this week). Gurman/Bloomberg […]