A Facebook group called Mayday Mysteries has grown significantly in membership. The group recently acquired a PO box managed by Robert Bannon in Spring, Texas, and is referenced in relation to Arizona and Phoenix Magazine content.
OONI Probe is a tool that measures internet censorship by testing which websites and messaging apps are blocked in users' countries. Users can contribute test results to the world's largest open dataset on censorship, helping increase transparency about network blocking and circumvention tool availability.
The article argues that managers function as catalysts in technology organizations by lowering the activation energy needed for change, and that recent industry trends declaring management dead have backfired—notably at Facebook, where dramatic manager reductions led to a 40% increase in incidents and declining team sentiment despite higher code output. The author contends that good management has become essential as the industry moves beyond the easy-growth 2010s.
Disney hired Karandeep Anand as its first chief technology officer. Anand was previously CEO of Character.AI, an AI startup that Disney accused of infringing on its copyrighted characters in a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025. The hiring suggests new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro wants the company to embrace new technologies.
The pandemic accelerated tech adoption and triggered massive hiring by giants like Amazon and Google, fueled by a decade of loose monetary policy. When the Federal Reserve sharply raised interest rates to combat inflation, the tech sector crashed harder than any other, with major firms missing expectations and trillions in market value evaporating.
Circle Crop Image is a free, browser-based tool that converts photos into circular profile pictures locally on your device with no uploads or signup required. It supports multiple image formats and includes presets for platforms like Instagram, Discord, Facebook, and LinkedIn, with output options for PNG or JPG.
A web app operator reports severe bot traffic problems, with Facebook's crawler making 3 million requests in 2 days and AI scrapers using residential proxies to bypass security measures including Cloudflare Turnstile. Despite blocking efforts, costs have surged and the operator is considering switching to hCaptcha as a last resort.
Open source software follows an evolutionarily stable strategy where permissive licensing (MIT, BSD, Apache) dominates because attempts to restrict usage or charge for code are undercut by free forks. Companies like Facebook, Elastic, HashiCorp, and Redis have tried to move away from open source licensing to monetize their work but were forced to revert after losing to competing forks.
Mark Zuckerberg posted about Cambridge Analytica on January 30, 2017. The post received 42K views.