Zero to Billions: The Startup on the Verge of the Biggest Tech Exit in Years (6 minute read)
Cloud cybersecurity company Wiz was founded four years ago by four former Israeli military officers. It grew quickly to become the dominant company in cloud cybersecurity and is headed toward the largest exit for any tech startup since Rivian's $77 billion initial public offering in November 2021. Google is looking to acquire the company for a $23 billion sale price. The deal will likely draw scrutiny from antitrust regulators in the US and EU.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever (39 minute read)
The human immune system is very good at attacking anything it registers as a disease - if it could be turned against cancer, it could eliminate tumors more thoroughly than surgery and more durably than chemotherapy. Scientists have managed to modify T cells to react to cancer as if it were a virus and destroy it. The therapy has been used to remove glioblastomas, a common type of brain cancer with a median time of diagnosis to death of just over a year.
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Where's the Synthetic Blood? (32 minute read)
The creation of synthetic blood is one of the holy grails of biomedical research. There are two main approaches to making synthetic blood products: the biologist's approach and the chemist's approach. The biologist's approach involves coaxing stem cells into becoming blood cells, while the chemist's approach synthesizes molecules and particles that mimic the functions of blood cells. Both approaches need to overcome economic and manufacturing challenges before they can scale for use in patients.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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SCALE by Spectral Compute# (3 minute read)
SCALE is a GPGPU programming toolkit that allows programs written using the popular CUDA language to be natively compiled for AMD GPUs. It accepts CUDA programs as is and serves as a drop-in replacement for nvcc. SCALE acts as an installation of the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, so it will work with existing build tools and scripts. It offers opt-in language extensions that can make writing GPU code easier and more efficient.
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Why Facebook doesn't use Git (12 minute read)
Facebook uses Mercurial instead of Git, building custom workflows on top of the tool for performance. Facebook used Git years ago, but it started facing performance issues, and the response from Git maintainers wasn't cooperative, with the maintainers pushing back on improving performance and instead recommending that Facebook shard its monorepo. The Facebook team looked at its alternatives and chose Mercurial, which had a community of maintainers who were welcoming to changes made by them. The story shows how kindness and openness can go far in the world of devtools.
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Saudi Money Makes a Big Splash in Video Games (8 minute read)
The Saudi government plans to invest $38 billion in video games by 2030 through its Public Investment Fund. It is holding the inaugural Esports World Cup this month in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Many of the world's largest video game companies and influencers have quietly partnered with the Saudis. Photos from the event, which will run for eight weeks, are available in the article.
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Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job? (Hacker News Thread)
This Hacker News thread takes a look at what the job market is currently like, both for recruiters and job seekers. While many respondents confirm that a lot of employment is found through direct connections rather than through job postings, many companies still require potential workers to go through the interview process. The thread contains a lot of advice for job seekers from people who have been successful at finding new employment during their careers.
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