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Was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office

news.ycombinator.com As Told To 2026-02-25 22:36:55

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Freddy Kristiansen, a 59-year-old former principal product manager at Microsoft's Denmark office who was laid off in May. Business Insider has verified Kristiansen's employment. The following has been edited for length and clarity. A couple of weeks ago, after 23 years at Microsoft, I was laid off. Yet here I am, back in the office.

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Deals: 512GB M4 Mac mini, Desert Titanium iPhone 16 Pro, black Apple Watch Ultra 2, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2026-03-01 23:45:16

Today’s Apple deals are once kicking off with a notable deal on the latest M4 Mac mini, but this time we are highlighting a $100 price drop on the mid-range 512GB model down at $699. Next up, we are moving over to a new Amazon all-time low on the premium renewed Desert Titanium 256GB iPhone 16 Pro at $127 off and higher-end models at up to $349 off as well as deals on the satin black Apple Watch Ultra 2 and the all-new Mac mini-ready OLED Samsung Smart Monitors with $300 in FREE credits. Head be

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Best Internet Providers in Durham, North Carolina

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-01 21:54:00

What is the best internet provider in Durham? Our broadband experts here at CNET recommend AT&T Fiber as the top internet provider in Durham, North Carolina. Thanks to its high-speed service, high customer satisfaction and variety when it comes to plans, it's difficult not to recommend choosing AT&T Fiber to any newcomer or long-time resident of Durham. For other fiber alternatives, consider Google Fiber. It offers even faster speeds than AT&T Fiber, reaching up to 8,000Mbps. That said, its pri

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Philips Hue confirms upcoming US price hikes are due to Trump tariffs

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-02 09:27:00

A hot potato: A lot of companies try to avoid blaming Trump's tariffs for any price increases, but not Philips Hue. It has notified customers of a price hike starting on July that is a direct result of the new import duties, and the products might become even more expensive in the future. Parent company Signify told hueblog.com that its Philips Hue portfolio in the US will experience price hikes on July 1 as a "direct result of the tariffs." This might not be the only increase. The company add

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Best Internet Providers in Minnesota

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-02 12:16:00

What is the best internet provider in Minnesota? Quantum Fiber is CNET's top pick for the best overall internet service provider in Minnesota. That's because it's the largest fiber ISP in the state and it offers fast, symmetrical speeds, customer-friendly perks like unlimited data and free equipment rental -- all at a competitive price. However, Quantum Fiber isn’t the fastest or most affordable ISP in Minnesota. If you want the fastest speeds, US Internet offers blazing-fast multigigabit servi

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Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty

news.ycombinator.com The Wiz 2026-03-02 22:05:12

▼ Summary – Lyon will gradually replace Microsoft software with open-source alternatives like Only Office, Linux, and PostgreSQL to reduce dependency on U.S. solutions. – The city aims to achieve digital sovereignty by transitioning to free and interoperable software. – Lyon will use the Territoire Numérique Ouvert suite, developed with SITIV and Métropole de Lyon, for its digital needs. – The Territoire Numérique Ouvert suite is already used by thousands of employees across 9 local governmen

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$2,000 Slashed Off Dell’s 15-Inch Laptop, Prime Day Deal Leaves Amazon’s Margin Gone

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-03 00:10:13

If you’re looking for a premium laptop, this early Prime Day deal on the Dell Inspiron 15-inch touchscreen laptop is one you won’t want to miss – and it’s open to both Prime and non-Prime members. Amazon has bundled this powerful (i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) machine with a set of high-value accessories including a lifetime subscription to Microsoft Office Pro, a USB drive, a mouse, and a 7-in-1 USB hub. The regular retail price is $2,599 but with this limited-time offer, you can have the laptop for

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Want a Sustainable Android? The Modular Fairphone 6 Delivers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-02 22:24:00

Sustainable tech leader Fairphone unveiled its latest modular device on Thursday at an event in Amsterdam, presenting a clear challenge to mainstream phone-makers everywhere. The Fairphone 6 is a fully repairable Android phone built to last, with what the company says is its lowest carbon footprint yet. Fairphone is a phone-maker like no other. Rather than being just another tech company making a generic Android phone, Fairphone is a value-driven Dutch social enterprise that sources materials e

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Netflix Noooo! One of My Favorite Games and 21 Others Will Get the Axe Soon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-03 00:00:13

More than a year after Netflix added the award-winning game Hades to its gaming service, the streaming giant will remove the game from its service on July 1. No, I'm not crying, I just have something in my eye. Supergiant Games released Hades in 2018 to near-universal acclaim before releasing the game on Netflix. It won numerous awards, including Game of the Year and Action Game of the Year at the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. It also made history as the first (and so far only) game to win a Hug

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Berkshire Hathaway Now Pays 5% of All Corporate Income Taxes in America

news.ycombinator.com Caleb Naysmith 2026-03-03 04:35:13

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The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 05:55:53

Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in practice. By design, Basic Economy compels travelers to self-select based on their willingness to pay and tolerate restrictions, thus allowing airlines to maximize revenue from different

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If You Own an iPhone, Amazon Is Offering a Free AirTag Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-03 09:16:41

Apple doesn’t often discount products, and AirTags have never been on sale from the Apple website or in Apple stores. Amazon, however, occasionally surprises us with exclusive pricing on these useful Bluetooth trackers. For the best value, a pack of AirTags is nearly always a better buy than a single one. Amazon is also running a great deal just in time for Prime Day: purchase three AirTags and receive a fourth free. That drops the price of four AirTags to just $74, down from the regular $99 ($

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PyTorch Reshaping with None

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 16:03:45

PyTorch Reshaping with None Currently I am learning attention mechanism from Dive into Deep Learning book. In the book I see following implementation in masked softmax: def sequence_mask (X, valid_len, value = - 1e6 ): """ X is 2D array (number_of_points, maxlen), valid_len is 1D array (number_of_points)""" max_len = X . size( 1 ) mask = torch . arange(max_len, dtype = torch . float32, device = X . device)[ None , :] < valid_len[:, None ] X[ ~ mask] = value return X In sequential data process

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Forget the Mac Mini, This HP Mini PC with Windows 11 Pro Is 70% Off in Early Prime Day Deals

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-03 14:55:33

HP is competing directly with Apple’s Mac Mini in the world of compact desktops. The HP Pro Mini 400 G9 Mini PC is currently available at a record low price on Amazon and makes it a great chance to get a high-end machine at a much lower cost. The price is the big news: this model (32GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, Intel 6-Core i5-12500T) is now just $699 which is 70% off its usual price of $2,339. On HP’s own website, a similar setup would cost close to the original price. See at Amazon Build for

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You’ve got one week to stock up on Philips Hue gear before a tariff-fueled price hike

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-03 18:26:08

We’d usually advise most shoppers to wait until Prime Day to get the best prices on tech, but smart home buyers in the US may want to consider stocking up in the next week. Philips Hue devices are already on the costly side, but it has now been confirmed that prices will increase from July 1. The unsurprising reason is the impact of US tariffs. After alluding to the price hike in a marketing email, Hue’s parent company, Signify, confirmed the increases in a statement to HueBlog. No further deta

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Save $25 on the Anker Laptop Power Bank and keep all your devices juiced up

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-03 18:34:30

Dave Carr So yoy keep running out of juice mid-day? The best solution is to get a power bank, and this one is one of our favorite ones right now. The Anker Laptop Power Bank is very portable, well-built, and plenty capable. It’s also $25.01 off today! Buy the Anker Laptop Power Bank for just $109.98 ($25.01 off) This offer is available from Amazon. You can get the same discount on both the Black and Silver color models. The Anker Laptop Power Bank seems to have suffered from the recent market

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Google Fi rolling out visual voicemail support for the iPhone

9to5mac.com Abner Li 2026-03-03 18:31:40

As previewed in April, Google Fi Wireless is rolling out support for visual voicemail on the iPhone. With this update, voicemail will no longer be available in the Fi app. Going forward, voicemail will appear in the iOS Phone app. Previously, subscribers had to use the Google Fi companion app to hear and read those messages. Now, Fi users will be able to “play, share, and delete voicemail messages directly through their device’s Phone app. Additionally, they will “no longer receive duplicate v

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ElevenLabs' new AI voice assistant can automate your favorite tasks - and you can try it for free

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-03-03 18:00:00

oxygen/Getty Images AI assistants are cropping up faster than we can keep track of them, promising to automate our mundane daily tasks and skyrocket productivity. AI audio company ElevenLabs wants to take those promises a step further: from words to actions. Also: How AI can save us from our 'infinite' workdays, according to Microsoft On Monday, the company launched 11ai, a voice assistant powered by the company's library of more than 5,000 voices. What sets this assistant apart, ElevenLabs c

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The Economics Behind "Basic Economy" – A Masterclass in Price Discrimination

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 17:55:53

Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in practice. By design, Basic Economy compels travelers to self-select based on their willingness to pay and tolerate restrictions, thus allowing airlines to maximize revenue from different

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Philips Hue bulbs will be even more expensive in July. And it may not end there.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-03 18:07:34

Philips is upping the prices of its popular and already-expensive Hue series of smart lighting products starting July 1. The company is blaming tariffs for the changes and has suggested that prices could go up even higher after the initial bump in July. Philips started informing its customers via an email marketing message earlier this month that prices would go up and urged people to buy Hue lighting sooner rather than later. In a statement to the Hueblog website, Philips’ parent company, Sig

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iCloud is down for some users as outage impacts Photos, Mail, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-03 23:56:04

iCloud is currently down for some Apple users, impacting key apps and services like Photos, Mail, iWork, and more. Here’s what we know so far about the outage. iCloud outage hits several popular Apple services Downdetector.com shows spiking reports of iCloud being down. The outage appears to have started shortly after 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. According to Apple’s system status page, the outage impacts a variety of iCloud services, including: iCloud Mail iCloud Web Apps iCloud Storage Upgrad

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ElevenLabs releases a stand-alone voice-generation app

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-03-03 21:00:00

Voice AI company ElevenLabs just released a stand-alone mobile app for iOS and Android users to generate voice clips from text. Until now, if you had to generate samples using ElevenLabs’ AI-powered voice libraries, you had to rely on its web app. Now you can use its mobile app to generate clips on the go. To use the app, simply type or paste in the text, then select a suitable voice to generate an audio clip. The free plan gives users access to roughly 10 minutes of audio generation. You can

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Philips Hue lighting is getting even more expensive on July 1 as a ‘direct result’ of tariffs

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2026-03-04 04:49:13

In the smart home world, Philips Hue already has some of the more expensive options, and now those prices are going even higher thanks to US tariffs. Over the past few weeks, Philips Hue has been advertising a 25% off sale to its customers via email with the added detail that “Our prices increase on July 1.” Signify, the company behind the Philips Hue brand, has now expanded on what this means. Speaking to HueBlog, Signify says that Philips Hue will “increase prices” in the US starting on Jul

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Philips Hue says US prices will go up in July because of tariffs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-04 04:34:34

When Philips Hue’s US prices go up next month, you can officially know who to blame. (Hint: It rhymes with "rump.") Parent company Signify told Hueblog (via The Verge) that its price increases are "a direct result of tariffs." See how easy that was, Amazon? Before that confirmation, the company vaguely referred to an upcoming price increase. "Hurry, prices go up on July 1," marketing copy from earlier this month stated. Signify’s statement to Hueblog doesn’t mince words about Trump’s trade war

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Netflix Is Removing One of My Favorite Games From Its Service Soon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-04 03:00:10

More than a year after Netflix added the award-winning game Hades to its gaming service, the streaming giant will remove the game from its service on July 1. No, I'm not crying, I just have something in my eye. Supergiant Games released Hades in 2018 to near-universal acclaim before releasing the game on Netflix. It won numerous awards, including Game of the Year and Action Game of the Year at the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. It also made history as the first (and so far only) game to win a Hug

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Human-centric AI delivered at scale is the NiCE approach to CX

zdnet.com Omer Minkara 2026-03-04 09:54:47

matdesign24/Getty Images Last week, I attended NiCE Interactions 2025, a customer experience industry event bringing together nearly 3,000 CX, contact center, operations, and IT leaders from around the world. As NiCE is a leading provider of CX and contact center solutions, the event focused on how business leaders are modernizing their customer care and engagement strategies and how NiCE is helping facilitate that transformation. At the event, company leaders, marquee customers, and technolog

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Samsung’s offering a $50 credit if you commit to preordering its upcoming Galaxy foldable

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2026-03-04 09:19:32

Samsung has announced an Unpacked event that’s happening on Wednesday, July 9th at 10AM ET. Details are sparse, but it shared the tagline “Ultra Unfolds,” which suggests we’re about to learn a whole lot more about a premium foldable phone, and perhaps some other foldables. However, you don’t have to wait for the keynote to unfold to mark yourself as interested, and Samsung is offering a free incentive if you follow through with buying it. By filling out a reservation form for the upcoming devic

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ElevenLabs releases a standalone voice generation app

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-03-04 09:00:00

Voice AI company ElevenLabs just released a standalone mobile app for iOS and Android users to generate voice clips from text. Until now, if you had to generate samples using ElevenLabs’ AI-powered voice libraries, you had to rely on its web app. Now, you can use its mobile app to generate clips on the go. To use the app, you simply type or paste in the text, then select a suitable voice to generate an audio clip. The free plan gives users access to roughly 10 minutes of audio generation. You

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T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service launches in July - here's who can get it for free

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-03-04 10:37:00

nazar_ab / Getty Images T-Mobile will officially launch its public Starlink satellite service on Wednesday, July 23. Currently in beta testing, the service will be available for any mobile phone user with a compatible device, including AT&T and Verizon subscribers. In its Monday news release, the Uncarrier explained what Starlink will offer. From the get-go, iOS and Android users alike will be able to send SMS text messages. Other features include MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), picture me

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Philips Hue is raising prices in the US ‘as a direct result of tariffs’

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-03-04 14:59:09

You’ll soon have to pay more for various Philips Hue smart lighting and security gadgets if you live in the US. After vaguely notifying customers that prices will “go up” on July 1st in a promotional message, Philips Hue’s parent company Signify has confirmed that it’s inflating prices across the Philips Hue portfolio “as a direct result of tariffs.” “We remain committed to providing consumers with high-quality products and features that make smart lighting extraordinary,“ Signify said in a sta

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Latest Tech News

Was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office

Deals: 512GB M4 Mac mini, Desert Titanium iPhone 16 Pro, black Apple Watch Ultra 2, more

Best Internet Providers in Durham, North Carolina

Philips Hue confirms upcoming US price hikes are due to Trump tariffs

Best Internet Providers in Minnesota

Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty

$2,000 Slashed Off Dell’s 15-Inch Laptop, Prime Day Deal Leaves Amazon’s Margin Gone

Want a Sustainable Android? The Modular Fairphone 6 Delivers

Netflix Noooo! One of My Favorite Games and 21 Others Will Get the Axe Soon

Berkshire Hathaway Now Pays 5% of All Corporate Income Taxes in America

The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination

If You Own an iPhone, Amazon Is Offering a Free AirTag Before Prime Day

PyTorch Reshaping with None

Forget the Mac Mini, This HP Mini PC with Windows 11 Pro Is 70% Off in Early Prime Day Deals

You’ve got one week to stock up on Philips Hue gear before a tariff-fueled price hike

Save $25 on the Anker Laptop Power Bank and keep all your devices juiced up

Google Fi rolling out visual voicemail support for the iPhone

ElevenLabs' new AI voice assistant can automate your favorite tasks - and you can try it for free

The Economics Behind "Basic Economy" – A Masterclass in Price Discrimination

Philips Hue bulbs will be even more expensive in July. And it may not end there.

iCloud is down for some users as outage impacts Photos, Mail, more

ElevenLabs releases a stand-alone voice-generation app

Philips Hue lighting is getting even more expensive on July 1 as a ‘direct result’ of tariffs

Philips Hue says US prices will go up in July because of tariffs

Netflix Is Removing One of My Favorite Games From Its Service Soon

Human-centric AI delivered at scale is the NiCE approach to CX

Samsung’s offering a $50 credit if you commit to preordering its upcoming Galaxy foldable

ElevenLabs releases a standalone voice generation app

T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service launches in July - here's who can get it for free

Philips Hue is raising prices in the US ‘as a direct result of tariffs’

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