Portland Tech conferences: https://dev.events/NA/US/OR/Portland/tech
List of various tech networking aggregators: https://www.macslist.org/working-in-portland/join-portlands-tech-community-local-networking-opportunities
The Tech Transition Hub connects you to free career support, training, and resources designed to help you move back into stable, meaningful work: https://www.pcc.edu/opportunity-center/jobs/tech-transition-hub/
JustPaid is an AI-powered billing and payment processes financial platform startup for businesses. What makes them more interesting is that besides the founders, the company was developed completely by AI agents.
What has brought them to the news (The Wall Street Journal) is that they use OpenClaw with Claude Code to create an entire software engineering team with 7 fully autonomous AI agents. The company’s human employees focus on tasks like customer requests.
The company also says it hired an employee who was trained almost entirely by the AI agents. They have just nine employees, three of whom are cofounders. The AI bots nearly equal the humans.
Pinnaka said he was spending $4,000 a week to run Claude Code and OpenClaw when he first started experimenting with them. He now claims to have brought the bill down to $10,000 to $15,000 per a month.
None of this is confirmed, but it’s highly likely there is a lot of truth to the claims because other companies are starting to claim to be doing the same thing.
Resumes are becoming increasingly useless in the AI era. For top positions in his new chip design team, Musk now asks for something else:
Write 3 bullet points on the toughest technical problems you’ve solved
I like this approach. It cuts to the chase and really requires you to distill all those desperate skills you have into how you solved real problems. A resume is still required to apply for most other jobs at Tesla in the U.S.—with some positions even calling for an “evidence of excellence”. But Musk’s unconventional request follows a growing trend in skills-based hiring. Almost three-quarters of companies are using skills-based assessments during the hiring process.
Having big context windows is critical for LLM’s, but fitting a decent sized context on a GPU is rough work. Even when you do get a decent budget, the reality is that you’ll be running out of context more than a few times in an 8 hour session with a 120,000 or even 250,000 token context window.
It’s worse than that since research seems to indicate contexts start to degrade and lose coherence after you use up about 60% of your context budget. You can try /compress commands, but eventually things degrade enough you have to close and restart – which means you lose all that great context and have to retrain the LLM.
There’s a couple ways to fight this.
On Claude, you can persist sessions to external storage and resume sessions.
On Copilot CLI, the memory already exists. Copilot CLI writes every session to a local SQLite database — ~/.copilot/session-store.db. Desi Villanueva wrote a simple python script that will re-load that context if you use Copilot. Handy if you use it for Visual Studio Code.
Meta reported that headset shipments in 2025 were significantly down on 2024’s numbers. Meta shipped 1.7 million Quest headsets in the first three quarters of 2025 according to market research firm IDC, representing a 16% decline versus the same period in 2024
This may have a lot to do with their cleaning house and shift away from AR/VR into AI.
Since 2020, Oregon has ranked in the bottom half of U.S. states for real GDP growth. While companies aren’t fleeing en masse, some are building new facilities and hiring additional workers elsewhere, citing higher costs, longer permitting timelines and a complicated path to growth in Oregon
Nearly a quarter of 400 Oregon businesses surveyed in a 2025 University of Oregon study said they had been contacted by out-of-state recruiters since 2021. Dutch Bros, the Grants Pass–founded coffee chain now valued in the billions, shifted 40% of its corporate staff to Phoenix last year.
Researchers at UC Irvine have a more updated Adversarial Machine Learning attack that appears to work on drones.
By creating an umbrella with a specially painted top, the researchers were able to confuse the AI tracking and navigation of a DJI Mini 4 Pro drone and cause it to crash. The method is called the FlyTrap attack and is a visual pattern that performs a next-gen physical distance pulling (PDP) attack that works across multiple angles, even in motion in real settings.
The printed visual draws victim drones closer as its neural network tracking systems interpret the pattern to be the subject moving further away. As the drone approaches the umbrella, the pattern causes the targeting bounding box to continue shrinking – so the drone moves to get closer. Autonomous drones lured by the pattern can then easily be ensnared using a net gun, or further induced to crash to Earth.
None of this would stop a human-controlled drone of course (like we see in Ukraine). But as drone warfare becomes more and more autonomous – it would take down fully autonomous drones. Perhaps modern camo clothing needs to become anti-AI patterned more than traditional human visual camouflage. Or perhaps screens of this kind of camo can be used to protect bases or encampments.
The PS3 processor was paired with up to seven Synergistic Processing Units, each a 128-bit SIMD co-processor with its own 256KB of local store memory. It was notoriously hard to get working well in native games – simulating those SPUs has been even more complex and very difficult to make performant.
RPCS3 emulates SPU workloads by recompiling the original Cell instructions into native x86 code. It recently got a huge improvement by some new usage patterns discovered by elad335. He believe these could also speed up normal SIMD and CPU processes as well.
the Elad’s contribution identifies new patterns in how PS3 games use SPU instructions and implements more efficient recompilation for them.
People have done a lot with projection mapping onto floors, but what if you made a giant LED display as your floor? BMW paired with ASB GlassFloor to create a full-LED video sports floor. It was installed in Munich at BMW Park at the home venue of FC Bayern Basketball.
This does offer advantages over pure projection mapping since there are no issues with occlusion shadows (though that’s a problem largely solved already by using multiple projectors in multiple locations).
Personally, it seems terribly distracting if you’re trying to actually play on it or watch live play – but seems to have has possibilities for live entertainment/concert events or possibly new kinds of games. One could imagine games in which the floor changes configuration/boundaries. Color could be used to mark out 2 and 3 point regions. Perhaps colors could indicate different bonus scoring is in effect, or to pulse to count down the last 10 seconds of gameplay, or perhaps indicate a penalty is in effect (though this would be best only indicated as changes to the perimeter colors).
ChatGPT’s internet browser Atlas can now research, plan and execute tasks inside your workflow. Instead of using ChatGPT like a chatbot, others suggest using the browser in different ways.