Technology Allows Mentors to Meet with K–12 Students

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Wikimedia begins rolling out updated editing features for new contributors, such as mentorship and suggestions for cross-linking articles and other first steps  —  Wikipedia is one of the sturdiest survivors of the old web, as well as one of the most clearly human-powered ones …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles  —  Apple Inc. has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development, an escalation of an existing plan to reduce budgets heading …

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon pauses hiring for roles in its corporate workforce after announcing last month that it would freeze hiring for corporate roles in its retail business  —  KEY POINTS  — Amazon is pausing hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, the company announced in a memo to staff Thursday.

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Dell aims to stop using chips made in China by 2024 and tells suppliers to significantly reduce the number of all China-made components in its products  —  ‘This trend looks irreversible,’ supplier exec says of tech industry’s production shift  —  TAIPEI — U.S. computer maker Dell aims …

A 2022 report from Logitech and Girls Who Code looks at the barriers faced by women in IT and the forces driving their success. The organizations surveyed 400 individuals in tech and IT positions with the goal of understanding and addressing the barriers women face in tech and ultimately encouraging more girls at the K–12 level to pursue STEM careers.
“What surprised us was the importance of early cheerleaders and role models,” says Delphine Donné, Logitech’s general manager of creativity and productivity. Per the report, 60 percent of women who studied computer science were encouraged by a…