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A white-hat hacker uncovered security vulnerabilities in an AI-powered hiring system used by fast-food chains and hourly employees around the world. Read the blog post or watch this explainer.

Mariposa is a programming language with time travel.

Want to be an individual contributor (IC) who still amplifies the performance of everyone around you? Be a radiating programmer.

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Satya Nadella on the state of Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI 2) Satya Nadella on OpenAI’s governance 3) Sam Altman on OpenAI’s potential for a big breakthrough this year 4) Altman on whether AI will replace jobs 5) How Generative AI will factor in politics this year, and whether it will actually be a big problem 6) The threat of video deepfakes 7) HeyGen’s translation of Argentina president Javier Milei’s speech 8) Google's latest layoffs 9) Does Google have a worsening culture problem? 10) Meta buying 350,000 NVIDIA h100 chips.

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Mariposa is a toy programming language that has time travel as a primary feature. Bugs are a thing of the past (literally)!

Miss having a physical keyboard when thumb-typing on your phone? Well, you’re in luck. 

Over at CES, LG Electronics wants your devices to have “affectionate intelligence.” Whatever it takes to make AI more human-centric and empathetic.

Omar used to work on the Backstage project at Spotify, so we quoted him in our article on it. 

Now he works on personalization, including Discover Weekly, which drops a new mixtape on you every Monday like a hipster with a crush.

Links from the show:

• Amazon Business Prime
• Tech Employee Records Herself Getting Fired, Sparks Fierce Debate - YouTube
• Tech worker goes viral after posting her layoff on TikTok
• PHP[TEK] 2024
• Reddit - Dive into anything
• Laracon 2024
• Bitcoin ETF widely expected to get approval this week - YouTube
• https://www.notion.so/product/calendar
• https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/16/investing-expert-new-bitcoin-etfs-key-milestone.html
• Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Summary Event
• Eventsourcing Patterns: Forgettable Payloads

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Nathan Henderson grew up in Saudi Arabia, where he actually met his now co-founder, back when he was 5 years old. His wife grew up in Mexico, and as such, they love to travel internationally. They are married with 3 college age kids, two at BYU and one on a church mission in Chile. His hobbies center around his family, but on his own, he loves to scuba dive, hike and stay physically fit.

While he was at SAP, Nate worked on a concept to eliminate the paper instructions we are all familiar with today, and replace them with 3D graphical instructions. The idea was conceived, but to really bring it to life, he and his co-founder needed to take it outside the 4 walls.

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Craig McLuckie is a self proclaimed boring guy - monochromatic, as he put it. At one point, he tried retiring from his professional ventures - IE building technology - but... it didn't work. So he is now back into building tech. Outside of tech, he is father to four children - two younger, two older - and enjoys spending time outside with them, hiking and building things. When he comes to food, he mentioned that there is no type of food he doesn't like - as long as it is well prepared and made with love.

Craig has been passionate about the supply chain security space for a long time. And in the past, he had built several open source projects - one being Kubernetes. He found himself intrigued at the intersection of these worlds, and wanted to build a solution, enabling developers to secure their open source.

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Kyle Chayka is a New Yorker staff writer and author of FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Chayka joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about his book — which debuts this week — and dig into whether algorithms really do make our culture flatter. In this spirited conversation, we interrogate the role of algorithms in society, ask how they reflect in the real world, and ponder how products would be redesigned to take back control. Stay tuned for the second half, where we discuss Chayka's story on people falling in love with AI bots.

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Chris Hughes, Cybersecurity Thought-Leader & the President & Co-founder of Aquia joins the show to discuss some of the important things that public and private sector leaders and practitioners need to know going into 2024 around cyber. We also talk about programs including FedRAMP & CMMC, why security by compliance isn’t the best path an agency can take, and what should governments be doing right now to prepare for what AI is going to bring to the cyber landscape in the next few years.