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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Former Weekend Editor

Former Weekend Editor

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    Wes Davis
    Go read this report on AI’s effects on Amazon’s software labor force.

    Amazon engineers related their experience creating software to The New York Times:

    The engineers said that the company had raised output goals and had become less forgiving about deadlines ... One Amazon engineer said his team was roughly half the size it had been last year, but it was expected to produce roughly the same amount of code by using A.I.

    The Times likens the shift to that of Amazon warehouses, where robots “have increased the number of items each worker can pick to hundreds from dozens an hour.”

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    Adam Conover regrets becoming “a crypto shill” for Sam Altman’s World.

    Recently, the comedian behind Adam Ruins Everything made a promotional video for World that he’s since taken down. Now, he’s addressing blowback he received by calling his ad for the eyeball-scanning crypto company “one of the dumbest things I have ever done” and saying what he “honestly” thinks about the company.

    One the highest-profile callouts of Conover’s video came from Rebecca Watson, aka Skepchick, who briefly summarizes World’s problematic exploits in her critique.

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    Wes Davis
    Get ready for Apple’s glassy operating systems overhaul.

    This year’s rumored redesign for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is also coming to watchOS and tvOS, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. In an April subscriber edition of Power On, he wrote that watchOS would only get elements of the redesign “here and there.”

    It’s expected the updates will take cues from the look of the glassy, translucent visionOS, which, Gurman writes, is also getting tweaks where they “make sense for a headset.”

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    Wes Davis
    A crypto investor has been charged with kidnapping and torture.

    37-year-old John Woeltz was arrested Friday after a man escaped a Manhattan townhome and told authorities that Woeltz and another man had kidnapped him and were “beating, shocking and torturing him for weeks” after he refused to give them his Bitcoin password, reports The New York Times.

    The news echoes a recent Wall Street Journal report about a wave of violent attacks on cryptocurrency investors in the US and worldwide.

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    Wes Davis
    What happens when you try to film a Lidar scanner?

    Well, as Jalopnik points out while referring its readers to the below video of a Volvo EX90’s Lidar scanner wrecking a camera sensor on the iPhone 16 Pro Max filming it, doing so can be “the technological equivalent of staring directly into the sun.”

    Lidar’s effects on camera sensors isn’t new information, but as more cars use Lidar, this video is a solid reminder to take care when showing off your new car.