Paresh Dave
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Paresh Dave
@peard33.bsky.social
Senior writer at @WIRED.com, covering tech. Signal: peard33.24
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Big deal if true for people who change their last names at marriage or in gender transition. Long demanded feature internally and externally

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Google says it is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your @gmail.com address
Google says on a support page that it is "gradually rolling out" a new change allowing users to change their Gmail address.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit was a signature piece of the company's response to the Black Lives Matter protests. Has it dismantled systemic barriers to opportunity as Apple intended? It's certainly made progress, but there are some lessons. My investigation:

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Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps. Not everyone lands coding jobs right away.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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December 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Has ChatGPT coined any now-widely popular jargon yet?

I'm thinking something like the human constructs "officer-involved shooting" or "open-air drug market"
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Google's crawler for search and Gemini training sees 3.2 times more web data than OpenAI's crawler and even more than Microsoft and others, according to Cloudflare's Matthew Price revealing the new stat at @wired.com's #WIREDBigInterview event.

He chalks that up to why Gemini is improving.
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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NEW: You've read a lot about immigrants kidnapped, forcibly detained, and held in ICE facilities -- what about the immigrants *trying* to leave the country? Turns out its wildly difficult for them too.

don't miss this from @telliotter.bsky.social:
The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. It’s a Shit Show
The Trump administration has been virtually begging immigrants in the US to self-deport, even offering money. But some immigrants say it’s been nearly impossible.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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A new NY state law requires retailers to disclose when a "price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." What personal data?? Why a particular price?? There's a lot of unanswered questions, but the disclosure is attached to eggs and toilet paper: www.wired.com/story/algori...
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Adding to the New York Times' big unveil last week of Jeff Bezos' new AI company Project Prometheus, we reveal an acquihire and that two Transformers paper authors are founding advisors

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Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun

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Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Terms of the agreement to have her move will not be available until the county’s Industrial Development Agency votes to finalize it, likely in mid-December. Earlier this year, the county agency reportedly offered $100,000, while the family countered for $10 million.

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A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home
Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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A 91-year-old woman refused to sell her home of 60 years to make room for a $100 billion Micron superfab. She finally gave up when authorities threatened to take it through eminent domain. from @peard33.bsky.social
A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home
Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM