2024 Week 18 - Weekly Notes

• FTC votes to ban noncompete clauses that bar employees from working for competitors
• FDA Takes Action Aimed at Helping to Ensure the Safety and Effectiveness of Laboratory Developed Tests
• No one buys books - by Elle Griffin - The Elysian
• The New York Times - Pro-Palestinian Encampments Spread, Leading to Hundreds of Arrests
• The Register - ByteDance would rather torpedo TikTok than sell it
• Jeff Geerling - Corporate Open Source is Dead - Response to IBM buying Hashicorp
• Nicky Case - How To Remember Anything Forever-ish
  • A good primer to spaced repetition
• The New York Times - Marrying the One Who Almost Got Away
• Kevin Kelly on The Technium - 101 Additional Advices
• Nick Wignall - 7 Rules for Emotional Health
• Bahaa Zidan - A brief history of web development. And why your framework doesn’t matter.
• CNBC - Venice’s new entrance fee shows world at its overtourism tipping point
• AP News - Change Healthcare cyberattack was due to a lack of multifactor authentication, UnitedHealth CEO says
• CTV News - London Drugs updates: Stores remain closed after ‘cybersecurity incident’
• Google killed Jamboard - Google shutting down Jamboard whiteboard app, hardware
• Ness Labs - The science of decision-making: why smart people do dumb things
• The Pragmatic Engineer - Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?
• Irina Stanescu - 3 Critical Skills You Need to Grow Beyond Senior Levels in Engineering

Layoffs and Obits

• Hacker News - Google lays off its Python team
• The New York Times - Tesla Fires Charger Team Amid Hundreds of Layoffs
• The New York Times - Farewell, and Thanks, to a Man Who Kept Kids Safe
• The New York Times - Olga Fikotova Connolly, Olympian in a Cold War Romance, Dies at 91
• The New York Times - Norman Kansfield, 83, Dies; Defrocked for His Daughter’s Same-Sex Wedding

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