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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 9, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Uber went public on the New York Stock Exchange in undefined, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Unpacking the IT Gender Gap: Lived Experience and the Path Forward to My Remote Reboot on Upwork and Freelancer.com: 96 Months Later, let’s dive right in.

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Unpacking the IT Gender Gap: Lived Experience and the Path Forward

TL;DR Why are there so few women in tech, and what can be done to change it?

By @ekaterinaandreeva [ 5 Min read ]

After some research, I see several root causes for this social phenomenon.

Maybe, if we had more female IT role models, girls would be more open to trying programming and choosing education in IT?

I see several reasons to think about changing this status quo: economic, gender-inclusive, and holistic...

The State of Cloud Storage: #Decentralize-Cloud

The cloud storage market is 80% owned by 3 mega tech companies, and - if we want to keep our data safe - that has to change.

By @ariophil [ 6 Min read ]

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If Youre an Amazon Ring Owner, You May Be an Accidental Spy

TL;DR The Markup analyzed the connection between income and Ring camera usage using a database of Neighbors posts from 2018 to 2020

By @TheMarkup [ 12 Min read ]

This article was copublished with the Los Angeles Times and AfroLA.This series was made possible through support from the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network.

Read the entire series:

The majority of people interviewed, however, were unfazed.

Also published here..

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My Remote Reboot on Upwork and Freelancer.com: 96 Months Later

TL;DR Is it worthy being a freelance newbie in 2025 on Upwork and Freelancer.com?

By @nebojsaneshatodorovic [ 4 Min read ]

So, here I am, working as a cable guy - Jim Carrey’s style. I’m losing my mind because a regular job is hard to find.

She’s fluent in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around her choices.

This is where my story begins...

On This Day

Uber went public on the New York Stock Exchange

Ahead of its much-anticipated IPO in 2019, Uber garnered investor valuations reaching as high as $120 billion. However, upon its public debut on May 9, 2019, Uber made headlines for recording the largest first-day dollar loss in U.S. history. Since then, Uber has pursued profitability, partly through strategic acquisitions of...