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Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo

I'm no expert but...

It seems to me that it might be more efficient to spend the money on actual production.

Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic

This "could" work

AI glasses would be fine if they were produced by an ethical company that was only interested in making a fair profit per pair while helping people. They would have no motivation to enable nudification and facial recognition. They'd help people see the world. That's sort of the caricature that comes to mind when people talk about the virtues of capitalism.

Of course, investor capitalism will never stand for this sort of company, because it's desire for a fair profit per glasses would not provide an avenue for explosive company growth, fueling increasing stock process. Meta actually likes the negative publicity about their glasses. It helps their stock prices. The combination of smart glasses + tech bro AI company + social media is the problem.

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

There is no such thing as bad publicity

These events have been orchestrated to attract investors. They are not real. If the events had been real, it seems quite likely that the parties that were hacked would have already opened large lawsuits against Open AI and Anthropic.

Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in

Is this on purpose?

It's as if someone at Microsoft is secretly trying to boost Linux.

LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower

It's a start

Now Microslop should go to work on Office and Windows.

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Re: Irish Virus

You had me at "That'd be grand"!

Office is no longer safe for business use

I suppose that all those people who use CoPilot to "clean up" their documents are going to be helping this worm along. I wonder how long it will be before the worm is piggy backing on Excel. Maybe Microsoft should revisit it's decision adopt an opt-out policy instead of an opt-in policy when it comes to AI.

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Is anyone surprised by this behavior.

Please reply here if you are, and tell us all why you are surprised. We really want to know.

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

I have a clever idea

AI vendors all over the world are having trouble finding people who are willing to pay for AI. What if the AI vendors shut down their AI servers and charge people for the electricity they are not using?

OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday

Must keep trying!

Must... find... a... reason... that... we... spent... trillions... of... investor... dollars!

(or the investors might stop giving us more money)

Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software

Well duh!

Anyone who has worked as a software development consultant knows that the key to a vibrant industry is creating bugs for the next company to fix, while you go on to fix bugs at their client. Vibe coding does this automatically and you don't even have to move to a new client!

Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'

Hilarious

So would my image just be a slightly modified copy of someone else's image?

There's no such thing as an agentic CPU

WHAT a relief!

For a moment there I thought people were intentionally designing CPUs that had an error 10% of the time.

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

Sounds like I can hear a bubble bursting

The #1 reason that this idea is being floated is it makes AI companies too big to fail. After that, all Americans are investors that can lose money, not just the FOMO fools.

Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform

Wadaya mean Agentic?

By "agentic" do you mean that Windows gets things wrong about 10% or the time?

Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records

Wow

Really dumb, dare I say American, move.

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Don't you hate it when Microsoft has a point.

At some point in time it was inevitable that end users would need to pay the entire cost of AI and a bit more for profit. That's the way the world works fellas. It you don't believe me, ask ChatGPT.

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

What a mess

Protecting kids from harmful content by keeping them off harmful sites is just not working. A more effective approach would be to make sites financially liable for the harm they do. This would probably reduce the amount of porn and pedophilia on the Internet, but I can live with that.

Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power

The emergence of AI seems very similar to the emergence of chattel slavery.

In the 16 hundreds, a rich, and often "noble" Europeans decided that capturing Africans and selling them as slaves in the Western Hemisphere was a good thing because Africans were relatively immune to malaria. Using Black slaves in the Caribbean would enable commerce so they thought it a good and inevitable thing.

AI can be used by the ultra-rich to avoid using the labor of the non-rich. The ultra-rich think this is a good and inevitable thing.

Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

Are any of us surprised.

Google wants to direct traffic in a way that they profit from. I am shocked I tell you.

Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat

Yeah right...

Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVidia, have all be spewing this SF non-sense. They say they will be using mini-nukes to power their data centers. They say they will be turning Three Mile Island back on. The say that heat is no problem, governments (not them) just need to use the heat effectively in a way that is plausible but not something they are attempting to do themselves.

It all smells a bit like the carbon capture marketing bit they were doing earlier to green wash there operations.

Anthropic’s Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI

Marketing slop

It is important to recognize that this software maintained by Anthropic using Anthropic Claude, which they are trying to sell.

This is a marketing gimmick,

Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks

Re: Quantum Communication ..... AI@ITs Work, REST and Play

I have no idea what you are talking about.. Was that on purpose?

GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

Tech Bros gotta bro

The level of transparent deception in the pricing of AI usage is actually rather comedic. We are talking Shining Time Station, Horace Shimmer level of dumb.

AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly

Tech Bro Bullshit

Does anyone else get the feeling that the Tech Bros are just trying random shit now, just in case the lucky upon something that consumers actually want?

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

What could go wrong?

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

Simple solution

Pay underage kids a bounty - collected by the government from the web property. Let's say $5000 every time the kid gets in. I'm pretty sure that these businesses will find a way to keep kids out.

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

One word for y'all

Codium

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Death to AI in Windows.,

"Windows needs to be faster, more reliable, and contain a more targeted deployment of AI." Windows needs a single kill switch in the settings application that kills all AI, including AI in apps. When I say apps, I include apps like Chrome and Acrobat. These windows apps should be required to obey the kill switch.

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space

It's a scam

Its a shame that investors don't read old technical magazines like the IEEE Spectrum, 1978 or so. They would see that this idea came up about 50 years ago and wasn't feasible. It still isn't. Zuck is just fleecing another set of investors.

Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official

This really sounds like Open AI is free to fuck other people.

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now

It is awkward.

Windows Update Experience is more like a Colonoscopy Experience than anyone wants to think about.

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

Trump was bribed to do this

According to an article in the NY Times

"During the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump gathered oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago estate and promised them a powerful return on their investment if they raised $1 billion to help him retake the White House."

It also explains the Iranian war, along with he just generally does what Netanyahu tells him to do.

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

It isn't just Microsoft

My wife had to get another laptop and I needed to install the software for our Brother printer/scanner (She was used to their scanning program). While installing the software for the printer (for which we already have an ink subscription) I was up sold for 4 different products while waiting to install the some Windows utilities.

I guess once a software vendor has your attention they don't want to let you go.

GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not

Let Microsoft be Microsoft!

I have a modest proposal. Why doesn't Microsoft sell a "classic version with no AI" of all their software for a bit more money than the AI offering. Let's face it, this is a total Microsoft move, so why not go for it guys. You can still go on ruining the environment with AI products that nobody wants AND make a little money on the side. And let's face it, no one wants to buy you AI offering so why not just to the MS thing?

Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO

What if both/all sides are right?

It seems to me that it is entirely true that age verification technology will end anonymity on the Internet. It also seems to me that the Internet is largely toxic to children. It also seems to me that the technology used to just guess at a users age using AI will, in the long run, invade user privacy just as much as the direct loss of anonymity. Even the heavy handed "let's just not allow toxic content on the Internet" will definitely result in a loss of free speech.

Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for

The tech bros at Microsoft are going to keep forcing you to use AI (in the hope that maybe some day you might pay for it) until no one uses any Microsoft products at all.

Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar

I'm not sure if the study is worth much, but the picture of the running dog is excellent!

OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot

Memories

Nothing more than memories

Memories of my account balance

Before I went broke...

Recall

Took a snap of my cards

Took a snap of all my credit cards

And now I am broke

Memories

Woe, Woe, Woe,

Memories

...

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan

The version without Claude Code included Claude for PowerPoint. This is probably more than sufficient for the "programmers" that want to use Claude Code.

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger

The press release had "Tech Bro Marketing Department" written all over it.

Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

Self Host

In the long run, self hosting is less expensive, even when you include a guy spending part of his time supporting things.

Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users

Duh Magazine

Isn't this pretty obvious? Anyone who hasn't considered this shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard.

AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped

You don't go to an AI conference unless you are think AI is going somewhere.

AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

Nothing has changedd

I once new a really good programmer who would sit round, apparently doing nothing for months. He would then type for a couple of weeks an a program would emerge that was brilliant. I asked him what his trick was and he said, "I sit around thinking about the problem a lot.". Our bosses were frustrated with this behavior. From their perspective, if he had been typing the entire time they would have even more genius code.

AI enables a new generation of developers to avoid thinking about the problem. It enables a new generation of bosses to press for more speed - and then whine about the lack of quality later.

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

Re: MicroSlop

Microsoft finds the word "MicroSlop" very hurtful. Be kind. Just because Microsoft is a soulless corporation intent on accumulating all the world's wealth doesn't mean it doesn't have feelings.

Everyone MUST us AI

But if anything goes wrong, blame the human user.

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Recursive inshitification

Microsoft is now inshitifying the tools used to inshit things. Its as if everyone on the Internet is competing to be #1! in shit. Microsoft pulled out front with this stunt.

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

For the good of all

I am sure that many of you, like me, in an effort to get away from Copilot, have switch to other git providers like codeberg.org. Even so, if you still have a github.com account I suggest that you log in to github and follow the instructions to disable Copilot completely - or as completely as Microsoft will allow. This will register every so slightly on the Microsoft corporate "brain" that people don't like Copilot and it is an foolish business venture. At least we can hope.

Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants

AI can also speed up nuclear disasters

The evidence suggests that AI should not be trusted with anything life threatening.