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Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews; up to 10% of the workforce is at risk of being cut (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews; up to 10% of the workforce is at risk of being cut  —  Jack Dorsey's Block Inc. has been notifying hundreds of employees that their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews …

Q&A with mathematicians behind the "First Proof" experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)

Siobhan Roberts / New York Times:
Q&A with mathematicians behind the “First Proof” experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research  —  Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions.  It takes a human to measure just how poorly they perform.

Sources: iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri slated for the week of Feb. 23, M5 MacBook Pros as early as the week of Mar. 2 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri slated for the week of Feb. 23, M5 MacBook Pros as early as the week of Mar. 2  —  Apple is going to begin a 2026 product blitz with the iPhone 17e, updated iPads and fresh Macs.

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers Reboot: Why Disney should greenlight the series

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers was a smash hit in 2022, but Disney shockingly hasn't greenlit a reboot. What's the hold up?

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms made me care about Game of Thrones Lore

The HBO show doesn't require deep knowledge of George R.R. Martin's fantasy universe, but it might encourage you to look up the characters and history