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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control
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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control

The tech industry is making job interviews more punishing, turning the hiring process into more of a gauntlet.

The AI-Fueled Future of Work Needs Humans More Than Ever
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The AI-Fueled Future of Work Needs Humans More Than Ever

AI is elbowing its way into ever more jobs, but while how we work will change, people skills will still be the most important factor.

Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise
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Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise

Young people are increasingly exploring roles in non-coastal U.S. cities while moving away from traditional tech companies towards roles in government, hardware...

No, the Great Tech Layoffs of 2023 Aren't Happening Again
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No, the Great Tech Layoffs of 2023 Aren't Happening Again

A week full of job cuts at tech companies is making early 2024 look a lot like 2023. But experts say these layoffs don't point to an ongoing slide in tech jobs,...

The Government Is Now the Hottest Tech Employer in Town
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The Government Is Now the Hottest Tech Employer in Town

After a year of massive layoffs made jobs at major tech firms look unstable, the U.S. government has come to be seen as an appealing, innovative employer.

AI Bot Fills Out Job Applications for You While You Sleep
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AI Bot Fills Out Job Applications for You While You Sleep

AI-powered services like LazyApply zip through the grunt work of job applications, helping one programmer apply for 5,000 jobs. But they can make mistakes, and...

Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare
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Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare

Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the past two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate.

These Prisoners Are Training AI
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These Prisoners Are Training AI

Startup Metroc in Finland has turned to prison labor to train its large language model.

Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI
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Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI

As artificial intelligence is evolving, so is the cast of people who are building and studying it. The field now includes many people — a group led largely by women...

Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals
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Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals

Peer-reviewed academic journals are grappling with submissions in which authors may have used generative AI to write outlines, drafts, or even entire papers, but...

Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for 'Full Control' Cheating
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Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for 'Full Control' Cheating

Security researchers at IOActive accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 card shuffler used in casinos to learn the exact deck order and the hand of every...

Why Is It So Hard for Scholars to Launch Startups?
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Why Is It So Hard for Scholars to Launch Startups?

STEM scholars with startup dreams struggle to find support.

ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
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ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work

Workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk and other crowd-work platforms are the latest group to face accusations of using large language models like ChatGPT as a shortcut...

They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft – and Unearthed New Potential for AI
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They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft – and Unearthed New Potential for AI

AI researcher Linxi "Jim" Fan and colleagues at chipmaker Nvidia devised a way to set the powerful language model GPT-4 loose inside Minecraft, turning the video...

Unfair Automated Hiring Systems Are Everywhere
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Unfair Automated Hiring Systems Are Everywhere

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission urgently needs to regulate automated hiring systems.

Yes, ChatGPT Is Coming for Your Office Job
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Yes, ChatGPT Is Coming for Your Office Job

White-collar workers may soon face the AI disruption everyone's been panicking about. But the news may be better than you think.

When Colleges Offer Coding Boot Camp, Students Can Get a Raw Deal
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When Colleges Offer Coding Boot Camp, Students Can Get a Raw Deal

Universities boost revenue by partnering with for-profit boot camp providers, which are unregulated and rarely externally vetted.

Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a Surge in Startups
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Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a Surge in Startups

Some of the hundreds of thousands of workers who lost jobs at tech companies over the past year are deciding to build their own companies.

Layoffs Broke Big Tech's Elite College Hiring Pipeline
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Layoffs Broke Big Tech's Elite College Hiring Pipeline

Students from top schools used to waltz from Silicon Valley internships into lucrative jobs. Now, some are reconsidering their options.

Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People
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Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People

Tech companies have laid off tens of thousands of workers over the past few months in an industry-wide downsizing. Almost without fail, they've handled it horribly...
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