Nate Anderson

4 weeks ago | arstechnica.com | Nate Anderson

The wrong way to get out of Trump's America. Twenty-eight-year-old Nathan Laatsch was, until yesterday, a cybersecurity employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He had a Top Secret clearance and worked in the Insider Threat Division. Laatsch spent his days—you'll understand the past tense in a moment—"enabling user monitoring on individuals with access to DIA systems," including employees under surreptitious internal investigation.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Nate Anderson

Don’t worry about the “mission-driven not-for-profit” College Board—it’s drowning in cash. The US group, which administers the SAT and AP tests to college-bound students, paid its CEO $2.38 million in total compensation in 2023 (the most recent year data is available). The senior VP in charge of AP programs made $694,662 in total compensation, while the senior VP for Technology Strategy made $765,267 in total compensation.

1 month ago | technewstube.com | Nate Anderson

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1 month ago | arstechnica.com | Nate Anderson

AP Psych is the latest casualty of digital snafus. Don't worry about the "mission-driven not-for-profit" College Board—it's drowning in cash. The US group, which administers the SAT and AP tests to college-bound students, paid its CEO $2.38 million in total compensation in 2023 (the most recent year data is available). The senior VP in charge of AP programs made $694,662 in total compensation, while the senior VP for Technology Strategy made $765,267 in total compensation.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Nate Anderson

Much like with the acorn example above, we had known what to do—we had just not done it to the game’s rather exacting and sometimes obscure standards. The key was to use a glowing gem as a light source, which my brother and I had long understood. The problem was the text parser, which demanded that we “put gem in mouth” to use its light in the tunnels. There was no other place to put the gem, no other way to hold or attach it.