Bill Gates’ book ‘Source Code’ is a surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years
Story by by Todd Bishop – GeekWire co-founder
Never go to the dentist the morning after an LSD trip. That’s one of the more unexpected takeaways from Bill Gates’ new memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings.
“I vowed that if I ever dropped acid again, I wouldn’t do it solo and I wouldn’t do it when I had plans for the next day, especially a dental procedure,” he writes of his ill-timed decision to heed the advice of Paul Allen, his Jimi Hendrix-loving friend and future Microsoft co-founder, to become “experienced” in the ways of psychedelics.
Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America in US
Google will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Google Maps app, the company has said, after US President Donald Trump ordered that the body of water be renamed in US government documents.
Among the numerous executive actions Trump signed in his first week in office was one to retitle the Gulf of Mexico on official US maps and federal communications.
Is China's AI tool DeepSeek as good as it seems?
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI-chatbot app which launched last week, has sparked chaos in the US markets and raised questions about the future of America's AI dominance. The BBC takes a look at how the app works.
DeepSeek looks and feels like any other chatbot, though it leans towards being overly chatty.
AI Dominates 2025 Cybersecurity Predictions
When it comes to cybersecurity in 2025, artificial intelligence is top of mind for many analysts and professionals.
Artificial intelligence will be deployed by both adversaries and defenders, but attackers will benefit more from it, maintained Willy Leichter, CMO of AppSOC, an application security and vulnerability management provider in San Jose, Calif.