I quit Amazon for a $400,000 AI job offer from Meta at 22. Here's how I got into the industry and my advice for others.

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Manoj Tumu was working at Amazon when a Meta recruiter reached out to him.

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  • Manoj Tumu joined Meta in June as a machine learning engineer after a recruiter reached out to him.
  • He left his role at Amazon to join Meta, attracted by Meta's AI projects.
  • He thinks many candidates overlook the behavioral interview in Big Tech interview rounds.

This as-told-to essay is based on a

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Amazon has new grocery competition as Dollar General races to grow 1-hour delivery

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A Dollar General developer sued Nottawa Township after it denied a rezoning request that would have paved the way for a dollar store in the town.

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  • Dollar General is leaning into delivery times of less than one hour using DoorDash and Uber Eats.
  • The option is especially appealing to rural customers who want perishable groceries fast.
  • Amazon and Walmart have also expanded their
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4 things I wish I had known before shopping for my wedding dress

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Though I had been writing about weddings for years, a few things surprised me during my dress appointment.

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  • I had been writing about wedding dresses for years when I bought my own.
  • Because of my work, I thought I was prepared for shopping for my dream gown.
  • A few aspects of my appointment surprised me, though, like the role of my consultant.

When I bought my wedding dress

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Disney sues Sling TV over new short-term TV passes

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Sling TV's new short-term bundles allow people to watch TV for cheap. And now Disney, a company that owns a bunch of TV channels, is suing them, arguing that the plans violate their licensing agreement.

According to Deadline, Disney filed a lawsuit against Sling TV over its new "Day Pass" system which lets users pay as little as $4.99 for 24 hours of access to a selection of live TV channels, or

Warning: AI-powered ransomware is real and in the wild

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As if there weren't enough privacy concerns in the world, AI ransomware is now reportedly a thing.

Cybersecurity firm ESET said that it discovered the first-ever AI-powered ransomware, which it has dubbed PromptLock. "The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly, which it then executes," the company wrote.

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