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Pinterest has fired several engineers who created an internal software tool to track layoffs at the company, according to reports. This move came into light after employees attempted to quantify job cuts following Pinterest’s January 27 announcement that it would layoff less than 15% of its workforce and reduce office space as part of a…
Recently, Madhu Gottumukkala, the Indian-origin acting director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), came under fire after uploading sensitive government contracting documents into the AI model ChatGPT. The documents were marked “for official use only” and were not meant for public release. They were not classified, but the incident triggered internal security…
A federal jury in San Francisco this week convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information containing Google’s trade secrets related to artificial intelligence technology for the benefit…
NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: A Delhi court granted Saturday interim bail to J&K independent MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid aka Engineer Rashid, allowing him to attend Parliament’s budget session from Jan 28 under armed escort.Held in Tihar jail since 2019, the 58-year-old MP faces charges under UAPA in a 2017 terrorist-funding case probed by NIA. He contested…
AHMEDABAD: Congress Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil’s nephew Yashrajsinh Gohil allegedly shot his wife “accidentally” in the head with a licensed revolver in their Ahmedabad flat late Wednesday and then turned the gun on himself, police said.The shooting unfolded in their fifth-floor apartment between 10.30pm and midnight, ACP Jitendra Brahmbhatt said. Yashrajsinh (35) was a…
Sulaiman Khan Ghori, former engineer at Elon Musk’s AI company xAI recently shared that he has left the firm. “I have left xAI. Nothing but love to my former team and coworkers!,” Ghouri wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The exit was announced days after Ghori appeared on the Relentless podcast hosted by…
NOIDA: An FIR was registered against two builders who own the water-filled pit in Sector 150 where a 27-year-old software engineer drowned after his SUV broke through a damaged boundary wall and plunged into it around Friday midnight.Police said the plot was not properly secured with a boundary wall, fencing or reflectors, turning it into…
On January 11, 2026, Arpit Bhayani did something he never planned to do. He resigned from Google. There was no restlessness behind the decision. No quiet quitting, no better offer waiting in the wings. Bhayani, a Bengaluru-based engineer deeply invested in in-memory databases, left because two parts of his life could no longer coexist.“Yesterday was…
AI generated image for representation A Google principal engineer named Jaaana Dogan has almost gone ‘viral’ along with her post on how AI has transformed coding in the last one year. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Dogan wrote, “I’m not joking and this isn’t funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent…
When Emrick Donadei joined Google, AI was not part of his job description. His work, like that of many software engineers at the company a few years ago, had little to do with large language models or AI safety.“I wasn’t qualified for an AI role,” Donadei, now 32 and based in New York, told Business…
