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the hardest problem in computer science is getting a file from one computer to another

Today, noyb filed 5 complaints against Scale AI, which operates the AI training platform Outlier. The company illegally tracks its platform workers - and forces them to (repeatedly) go through an invasive biometric verification process. noyb.eu/en/ai-traini...

Meta hit with its BIGGEST FINE EVER → A fine bigger than some countries GDP! 🤯 A judge in New Mexico has ordered Zuck's Meta to pay $25 BILLION after a trial found it had lied to the public about how user data was handled. It's great to see that New Mexico is holding Big Tech accountable. 👏

Data-centers demand hard capital. At Microsoft, humans are expendable.

CEO cope.

Trillion+ invested annually. ROI?

“i’m so clueless about my own kid i need to get an machine to output generic words to describe her”

Here's the project: github.com/sanxchep/lic...

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Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignor...

Remediating compromised #eMudhra certificates in #Java runtimes OpenJDK: openjdk.org/emudhra Oracle JDK: ops.java/emudhra

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

Kostiantyn Vlasenko, a Ukrainian Defender from the 30th Brigade, shares more about the ordeal he lived through. His willpower and strength are unbelievable. "I’m the kind of person who likes dark humor. I joked with my commander. I said, 'You can congratulate me.' He said, 'What happened?

Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

Hallucination suggests an anthropomorphisized “quirk”- no, the program failed. It is a failure of a flawed system, not an hallucination of something embodied.

Valerie of Mila recommends we stop using "hallucination" to describe when AI is confidently wrong. "It's a technical failure, a legal breach". We should not turn a serious reliability problem into a quirk. #attention2026

The cost of diesel For @rawstory.com

The workplace is not a battlefield where our co-workers are the enemy. Any system of management that sets up a competitive environment will always be inferior to one based on trust and collaboration. (And I'm willing to go out on a limb with that "always." I've never seen an exception.)

AI copyright lawsuits are coming thick and fast. In just the last couple of weeks: - USA Today & 18 other papers sued OpenAI - around 300 authors sued Meta - a pair of musicians sued Black Forest Labs

🇺🇸‼️ AFP: US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave

To avoid starving to death, people in the occupied town of Oleshky are boiling grass. A local resident reported this.

Apache Tika 3.3.3 is now available for download: tika.apache.org/download.html For more info, visit: tika.apache.org

The claim that Ukraine doesn’t want peace, like most claims coming from the Kremlin, is a lie. Last year, the Kremlin rejected seven peace proposals, including a Christmas truce. Peace requires Russia to end its aggression, not Ukraine to surrender.

📰🇺🇸 US officials are secretly preparing to counter Trump's interference in the midterm elections to the US Congress, — The Washington Post They fear that the White House will send troops or immigration agents to polling stations or try to cancel the election results based on allegations of fraud.

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❗️WSJ reports Elon Musk personally ordered a slowdown of the military-grade Starlink service used by Ukraine, leaving some offensive and interceptor drones virtually useless. Musk and Trump later discussed the move; one source says they had also discussed it beforehand. #Ukraine

🇺🇦🙏 Soldier, who was evacuated by drone for the first time in history, spent 491 days in a row at the position, - Suspilne. ▪️Konstiantyn Vlasenko held a position in a concrete drainage pipe. After the death of his comrade, he was left alone.

A baby in a stroller. Families spending an afternoon in the park. Children playing.   Russia struck them with a drone. Six people died, including two children.   The reality of the attack deserves more attention than Moscow’s claims.

The big question, it seems to me, is not whether we’ll see a major tech company fail in the near future. It is what happens afterward. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The biggest newspapers in Canada just sued Anthropic for alleged copyright infringement. The number of lawsuits piling up over this technology is astonishing. And there will be more. torontolife.com/city/canadas...

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Trying to use the models for things outside of coding / ml, like making slides or coherent plans or longish content design, makes me feel the AGI-is-going-to-take-a-while.

"Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he'll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he'll say it looks good." - Gene Kim #quotes #quoteoftheday

Anthropic exploits the work of millions of creatives without paying them. This is not absolved by donating a fraction of the ill-gotten gains to the ‘public good’. If you want to work for the ‘public good’, start by not exploiting people. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Apache Tomcat 10.1.61, 9.0.123 and 11.0.27 are now available for download: buff.ly/6gDFTdG Tomcat s an open source software implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Pages, and more.

Apache Camel 4.18.5 (LTS) and 4.23.0 are now available for download: camel.apache.org/download/ Camel is an open source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.

Another reminder why the open web is so critically important.

On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...

Bleecker Street says TikTok suspended the Musk documentary account for "political policy" violations and called the suspension "permanent"; Bleecker's appealing (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

the champions of free speech

Apache Commons Codec 1.23.0 is now available for download: buff.ly/9J2jCov For more info, visit: buff.ly/JlxAPvQ

it really seems unbearably obvious to me that USA-based academics bully the rest of us so much that it cannot not be a pattern worth noticing — putting this out there in case detecting this materially based attack on us and general nonsense against us is useful to others or otherwise validating 🩵