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Man in Prison Gets Hired as Software Engineer at Silicon Valley Startup, Works Every Day From Cell

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-22 14:05:28

A man has been hired to work full-time at a San Francisco-based tech startup called Turso — while serving his 11th year in prison, checking into work from his cell. As TechCrunch reports, Preston Thorpe was personally offered the job by Turso CEO Glauber Costa, who was inspired by Thorpe's story. "I reached out to him in January, just to understand and get to know him," Costa told TechCrunch. "Since then, I’ve had deep conversations with him about his change of heart that led him to be in the

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Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Francisco startup — he’s also serving his 11th year in prison

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-27 00:48:32

If you omit some key details, all Preston Thorpe has to do to become a senior software engineer at a promising tech company is walk through the door. For about six months, Thorpe was a prolific volunteer contributor to an open source project led by database company Turso. His work was impressive enough that Turso’s CEO, Glauber Costa, quickly offered him a job. That was also when Costa realized that Thorpe is anything but an ordinary programmer. “I checked his GitHub profile, and he mentions t

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The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

news.ycombinator.com Kaushik Patowary 2026-02-23 05:56:14

In the late 19th century, a rare and highly unusual neuropsychiatric condition was observed among a group of French-Canadian lumberjacks living in the Moosehead Lake region of northern Maine. Those affected exhibited an extreme and exaggerated startle reflex. When startled by a sudden movement or loud noise, they reacted with dramatic involuntary responses, such as leaping into the air, screaming, repeating words, or instantly obeying shouted commands. It was reported that the "jumpers" were pri

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The Great Egg Heist

news.ycombinator.com Jenn Abelson 2026-02-27 11:44:57

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. “I’d like to report a crime,” said the man who called a Maryland sheriff’s office on April 16. There was a theft, he explained, involving a freight truck. “So they stole the whole freight?” a dispatcher asked. “Only took the cargo,” the man answered. It was valued, he said, at about $100,000. The dispatcher asked what was stolen. The caller hesitated. “They took … basically … they took a whole trailer f

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Best Internet Providers in Maine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-10 18:41:00

What is the best internet provider in Maine? CNET picks Fidium Fiber as the best internet provider in Maine for most, thanks to its fast speeds, broad fiber coverage and affordable pricing. It offers plans up to 2,000Mbps for $90 a month and has the cheapest entry-level option in the state at $30 for 100Mbps. Plus, there are no contracts, equipment fees or data caps to worry about. If Fidium isn’t available at your address, GoNetspeed is another fiber provider worth considering. You’ll also fi

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Trump administration throws wrench into $42 billion broadband rollout

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-17 12:15:00

The big picture: In a sudden policy shift, the Trump administration has thrown a wrench into the nation's largest broadband expansion effort, forcing states to overhaul plans to distribute $42 billion in federal funding aimed at closing the digital divide. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has put the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program on pause, unveiling sweeping new rules last week that require states to rethink how they allocate grants to Internet service providers. T

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“Two years of work in two months”: States cope with Trump broadband overhaul

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-18 15:43:46

The Trump administration has upended plans that state governments made to distribute $42 billion in federal broadband funding, forcing state officials to scrap much of the preparation work they did over the previous couple of years. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick essentially put the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program on hold earlier this year and last week announced details of a rules overhaul that requires states to change how they distribute money to Internet servic

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