Hacker News with Generative AI: Yahoo

Microsoft Is Dead (2007) (paulgraham.com)
A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face and realized he didn't understand.
Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of 'red team,' under new CTO (techcrunch.com)
Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned.