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By JOE HUTCHISON, US NEWS REPORTER Published: 14:18, 4 September 2025 | Updated: 16:35, 4 September 2025 The family of a Microsoft engineer who died while at work are warning that Silicon Valley companies are overworking their employees.  Pratik Pandey was found face-down in the early hours of August 20 in Mountain View, California, inside the Microsoft campus, The Palo …

How Builder.ai Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom  The New York Times Source link

An Indian-origin techie, Pratik Pandey, was found dead in Microsoft office in the US on August 20. The cause of the death is yet to be ascertained, Santa Clara County medical examiner. His family members suspect working late into the night frequently could have led to the death. Pandey worked on Microsoft’s Fabric, a data analysis product and competes with …

Pratik Pandey, a 35-year-old Microsoft software engineer, was found dead at the company’s office early on August 20. Pandey, who worked on the Fabric product, had entered the office the previous evening. While the cause of death is pending, police found no signs of suspicious activity. Microsoft is investigating the incident. Pratik Pandey, a 35-year-old software engineer working for Microsoft, …

Microsoft Software Engineer Dies on Silicon Valley Campus at 35  Bloomberg Source link

Meta’s former policy chief Nick Clegg seems to be walking a tightrope as he promotes his upcoming book, “How to Save the Internet.” Unlike certain other Meta employee memoirs, “How to Save the Internet” doesn’t sound like a tell-all or a scathing critique. And in an interview with the Guardian, Clegg (who previously led the U.K.’s Liberal Democrats) seems to …

An international team led by Weizmann Institute of Science and Northwestern University scientists says it has discovered a never-before-seen core of a supernova, a massive exploding star, that was rich in heavy elements such as silicon, sulfur and argon. The star’s outer layers were stripped away suddenly, and the blazing inner core — the heart of the massive star, dubbed …

“Silicon Valley” star Kumail Nanjiani just revealed why tech billionaire Elon Musk wasn’t a fan of the hit HBO show. During an appearance on the Aug. 10 episode of Mike Birbiglia’s “Working It Out” podcast, the Marvel actor recalled how the series received a lousy review from the Tesla titan when Nanjiani met him. “He didn’t like the show,” the …

Elon Musk hated HBO’s “Silicon Valley” so much that he reportedly felt compelled to gripe about its satirical portrayal of lame “tech bro” parties — and brag to the show’s star about the superior shindigs he has attended himself. Kumail Nanjiani said that the world’s richest mogul complained to him that the tech gatherings depicted on the HBO comedy were …

Kumail Nanjiani, the 47-year-old star of HBO’s acclaimed comedy Silicon Valley, which ran from 2014 to 2019, recently revealed he has met many people from the real-world Silicon Valley, and not everyone was a fan of the show’s depiction of startup culture. Chief among those people, he said, was Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and world’s richest man. Speaking on …