GameSpot

Minecraft Hacks Away A Major Chunk Of The Game With New Playable April Fools' Joke

Like lots of games, Minecraft is celebrating April Fools' Day with a good, old-fashioned joke. But rather than simply making ...
Carscoops

One Of Ken Block’s Most Personal Competition Cars Just Hit The Market

One of the rare Gymkhana cars modified for and driven by Ken Block has surfaced for sale, and it’s the kind of machine that resonates across the collector spectrum. It carries both motorsport pedigree ...
TheServerSide

How to install Visual Studio Code for Java

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...
Autoblog

Before the WRX and Evo, There Was the Lancia Delta Integrale

Mint examples of the Lancia Delta Integrale are hard to come by, especially the rare Evoluzione models, but this modded one is carrying a premium over stock versions. Lancia's rally history includes ...
The Escapist

Slay the Spire 2 console commands – how to mod the game and get access to the dev menu

Slay the Spire 2 can be a tough old beast to crack, and much of it is down to the hands the RNG Gods dole out to you at any one time. Fate is a cruel mistress. Table of Contents The Escapist Recaps ...
Fast Company

Tech and finance layoffs: Oracle, Block, Morgan Stanley, Capital One headline brutal week for job losses

The past week has been a brutal one for many working in the tech and financial industries. Thousands of jobs have been lost—or will be lost soon—from companies including Block, Morgan Stanley, Capital ...
Futurism

Jack Dorsey Isn’t Telling the Real Story About Block’s AI Layoffs, Insider Says

Twitter founder and Block Inc (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey announced late last month that his fintech venture was making “one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company” by “reducing ...
AOL

I talked to one of the laid-off Block employees. He gave me a sobering warning.

In late 2022, when ChatGPT was first blowing everyone's minds, Kenji didn't really get it. Sure, it did some pretty cool things. But so had plenty of other generative AI models he'd tinkered with over ...
The New York Times

I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.

Mr. Zamost was the head of communications, policy and people at Square, now known as Block, from 2015 to 2020. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...
American Banker

Is Block the first domino for AI-spurred layoffs?

It was the combination of "layoffs" and "artificial intelligence" that stoked broader concern for an AI-driven shock to the labor market, leaving many to wonder whether Jack Dorsey's payments company ...
Reuters

Jack Dorsey’s Block to cut nearly half its workforce in AI overhaul, shares surge

Block to cut over 4,000 jobs CEO says AI has changed how a company is run Stock surges 25% after market Analysts call cuts a "seminal moment" in AI era Feb 26 (Reuters) - Block (XYZ.N), opens new tab ...
CNBC

Block shares soar as much as 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its head count. Shares of the payment company skyrocketed as much as 24% in extended trading. It was last seen up nearly ...