Paresh Dave
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Senior writer at @WIRED.com, covering tech. Signal: peard33.24 WhatsApp: +1-415-565-1302 pareshdave.com https://www.wired.com/author/paresh-dave/
Why won’t Oakland release transparency reports about city contracts? oaklandside.org/2026/07/29/o...
Why won’t Oakland release transparency reports about city contracts?
City officials have repeatedly refused to disclose details about hundreds of contracts for three years, despite a city law requiring transparency.
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Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count. www.wired.com/story/how-li...
LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.
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WIRED is surveying tech workers! From your opinions about your bosses and workplaces to your thoughts on the AI revolution, we want to know it all. Share your two cents by taking our short survey at the link below. 👇 wrd.cm/4fu42MY
I find it wild, if I'm following correctly, that the California Board of Psychology doesn't capture practitioners' employer info as part of licensing. There's a voluntary survey that asks for generic work location. Wouldn't knowing the number of psychologists at XYZ company be useful information?
Many nonprofits around the world trying to rein in AI, get animals out of cages, eliminate poverty and sickness, or spread democracy, that are all eager to claim a slice of what’s widely anticipated to be the largest wave of philanthropy in decades. www.wired.com/story/nonpro...
Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.
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Haven't seen a tech worker allege discrimination based on marital status before. This is from a complaint filed this year with Seattle's civil rights office by a former Google technical program manager who alleges they were overworked because they were single/non-married. Curious to learn more!
NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social
A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
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Some weekend news: Uber is upping its lobbying game around AVs It pushed for legislation in NJ that would require robotaxis to operate on apps that also employ human drivers - locking out driverless-only platforms The AV politics wars are just getting under way www.wired.com/story/ubers-...
Uber’s Autonomous Vehicle Strategy: Slow Their Adoption
In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars. The company says it’s fighting monopolies.
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OpenAI responds: "We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere." -- Drew Pusateri, OpenAI spokesperson
Paresh Dave@peard33.bsky.social · 4w agoOpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
Here's an explainer I wrote a few years back on the messiness of trade secret theft cases "The line is often drawn by the company you're leaving, and they often declare things to be trade secrets that aren't trade secrets," one defense attorney told me back then. finance.yahoo.com/news/trade-s...
The trade secret minefield: What workers risk when changing jobs
Self-driving truck entrepreneur Anthony Levandowski on Tuesday received an 18-month prison sentence in the highest-profile trade secrets theft case in Silicon Valley in recent years. What was Levando...
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Paresh Dave@peard33.bsky.social · 4w agoOpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets
The iPhone-maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.
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Three items removed from Waze's list of prohibited communications support.google.com/waze/answer/...
Paresh Dave@peard33.bsky.social · 4w agoPretty weak privacy and terms update notice in the year 2026. Surprised Google is allowing its Waze unit to send out this generic notice without any clarity.
Pretty weak privacy and terms update notice in the year 2026. Surprised Google is allowing its Waze unit to send out this generic notice without any clarity.
And, speaking of Anduril, we just published an exclusive story last week on how its lobbyist quashed local voters in Ohio after farmers tried to put its drone and cruise missile plant to a referendum: inkstickmedia.com/in-ohio-who-... www.instagram.com/reels/DaSY00...
In Ohio, Who Really Gets a Say in Anduril Weapons Factories?
Residents of a small township in Ohio wanted a vote on a new Anduril weapons factory. Then the state changed the rules.
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