All posts tagged "Silicon Valley"

Employees with the Pentagon's digital technology unit, dubbed the "SWAT team of nerds," have decided to resign together rather than deal with changes being brought about by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, according to new reporting from Politico.

The report states that the Defense Digital Services unit was once considered the Pentagon's "fast-track tech development arm" and "one of the department’s earliest efforts to inject Silicon Valley ethos into its massive bureaucracy."

Created in 2015, DDS helped the Pentagon "adopt fast tech fixes during national security crises" and pushed "Silicon Valley-style innovation inside the Pentagon," according to reporter Mohar Chatterjee. "It built rapid response tools for the military during the Afghanistan withdrawal, databases to transfer Ukrainian military and humanitarian aid," and "drone detection technologies," among other projects....

WASHINGTON — If the titans of Silicon Valley have blood on their hands — as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday — then how much blood is on federal lawmakers’ hands for congressional inaction on measures to protect the nation’s children online?

Raw Story posed that question to 15 members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as they exited their high profile hearing with the heads of TikTok, Snapchat, Discord, X (formerly Twitter) and Meta where senators, like Graham, the committee’s top Republican, blamed the CEOs for the issue Congress has yet to address.

“Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands,” Graham said as the room erupted with applause. ...

As more women work their way up the corporate ladder, or start businesses themselves, some are questioning whether it's ever appropriate to ask high-powered females about motherhood and their family lives.

You don't have to be young to work in Silicon Valley – but it certainly helps. Which is why the over-30s are now taking extreme measures.

Silicon Valley hosts lavish ceremony for Breakthrough prize that aims to give scientists celebrity status and inspire interest in life's 'big questions'