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In a move that blurs the line between product testing and personal wellness, AI startup Joi AI is hiring ten people as what it calls masturbation consultants, paying two thousand dollars a month to evaluate an AI-guided intimacy feature and track its effects on stress, sleep, and mood. Whether that reads as bold research or clever marketing likely depends on who you ask.
On a more grounded note, the executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation is doing something her own organization's software rarely gets credit for — she's daily driving FreeBSD on a laptop. It's a candid experiment, and the fact that the foundation's own leader is stress-testing the experience in real life says something honest about where the platform stands and where it still needs work.
And in the security space, Cybereason has open sourced the anti-tampering components of its commercial endpoint detection and response product, following an earlier release of its Linux EDR tooling. Opening proprietary security features to public scrutiny is a meaningful trade-off — it invites collaboration but also hands potential adversaries a closer look at the architecture.
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