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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Last week Microsoft Israel, the local marketing and sales office of the US software giant, announced the departure of Country General Manager Alon Haimovich after four years in the job. Behind the dry announcement is major controversy. Haimovich left his position after an investigation by Microsoft's global management into Microsoft Israel’s work with the Ministry of Defense, amid concern that the company's code of ethics had been violated. Several managers in Microsoft Israel’s governance department have also left their positions. Microsoft Israel has been…

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.When I was in college, an acquaintance who had graduated a few years prior came back to visit for the weekend. As we walked around campus on Saturday night, he flung his hands into the cold Connecticut air and exclaimed, “You guys are so lucky; you live a…

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I don’t think there’s compelling evidence that using AI makes you less intelligent overall. However, it seems pretty obvious that using AI to perform a task means you don’t learn as much about performing that task. Some software engineers think this is a decisive argument against the use of AI. Their argument goes something like this: Using AI means you don’t learn as much from your work AI-users thus become less effective engineers over time, as their technical skills atrophy Therefore we shouldn’t use AI…

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring developing a pair of smart glasses that would “supplement” the agency’s facial recognition Mobile Fortify application, which lets officers scan someone’s face to verify their citizenship, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. Another person who attended a conference where a senior ICE official spoke about the plans also described them to 404 Media.The smart glasses, if they came to fruition, would be yet another technological escalation in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. 404 Media…

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Every so often I open a PR and see something like this: deployFeature(flag, true, false, true); I run into it more often than I’d like. Not because it’s complicated. Just because I have no idea what I’m looking at. So I click into the function definition, scroll a bit, lose my place, jump back, re-read the line…and only then does it click. Tiny interruption. Still annoying every time. I’m not reading code anymore, I’m decoding it Here’s a simpler one: createUser(user, true, false); What does…