NYT: ‘Meta’s Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable’
“Meta’s embrace of AI is making its employees miserable,” reports the New York Times.
And “After Meta said late last month that it would start tracking employees’ computer use, hundreds of workers spoke up.” (One employee even told Meta’s CTO in an internal post, “Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning.”
In an internal post … ⌘ Read more
@kiwu@twtxt.net Sick at home. 🤧
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Die Holgi-Sachen sind auch so das einzige, was ich noch mehr oder weniger regelmäßig höre (und mit Spenden versehe). Die langjährige Radio-Moderator-Erfahrung, die da drinsteckt, ist einfach Gold wert. ✨
So apparently this is the default when making a new Matrix account, which makes me wonder why we’re even doing this whole crypto dance in the first place … ?
‘Changing of the Guard’? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags
While Nvidia has dominated the “infrastructure boom” since 2022’s launch of ChatGPT and “the generative AI craze,” CNBC writes that “This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a ‘changing of the guard in AI.’”
Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel notched gains of about 25% … ⌘ Read more
Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic
Under the nonprofit Linux Foundation, “a new Sustaining Package Registries Working Group will seek to identify concrete funding, governance, and security practices,” reports ZDNet, “to keep code flowing as download counts grow…. Because software builds, continuous integration pipelin … ⌘ Read more
Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel’s Configuration System
New tooling being worked on for possible mainline Linux kernel inclusion is Kconfirm as a new tool for detecting misusage and efforts stemming from Kconfig, the configuration system for kernel builds… ⌘ Read more
Will Maryland’s Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States’ Datacenters?
To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel. The money “will be recovered in rates for decades” and “drive up Maryland customer bills by … ⌘ Read more
Rush Rescue Mission for NASA’s $500M Space Telescope Passes Key Milestone
NASA’s $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it’s now “at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention,” reports Spaceflight Now.
Fortunately, a mission to prevent that “just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone.”
On Friday, NASA announced that th … ⌘ Read more
The Trump Phone Either Is Or Isn’t Closer To Delivery
September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization’s “Trump Phone” — a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (£370). But in March the Verge spotted signs the phone was moving forward:
FCC listings for a smartphone with the trade name “T1” show that it was tested late last year, and granted certification by the FCC in Janu … ⌘ Read more
Plant Seeds Do Something Incredible When the Sound of Rain Strikes
“Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops,” reports ScienceAlert, “and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows…. to germinate in ‘anticipation’ of the coming deluge.”
The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers th … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects… ⌘ Read more
Cisco Releases Open-Source ‘DNA Test for AI Models’
Cisco has released an open-source tool “to trace the origins of AI models,” reports SC World, “and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain.”
[Cisco’s Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a “fingerprint” for AI models that can then be compared to … ⌘ Read more
Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
All 20 of America’s state-run healthcare marketplace sites “include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies,” reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg:
Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them ma … ⌘ Read more
10 People Called Police to Report Bigfoot Sighting in Ohio
CNN reports on a “sudden surge of claimed sightings” of “unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas” along Ohio’s Mahoning River.
“And it stopped just as quickly as it started,” says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports …. Byron doesn’t take every report at face value, making sure he t … ⌘ Read more
Newspaper Chain’s Reporters Withhold Their Bylines to Protest ‘AI-Assisted’ Articles
A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman “has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences,” reports the New York Times.
And the chain’s reporters “are not happy about it … ⌘ Read more
Why Some US Schools Are Cutting Back On the Technology They Spent Billions On
America’s school districts “spent billions on technology during the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post.
“But now some states are limiting in-school screen time because of concerns about its impact on children.”
Nationwide [U.S.] schools invested at least $15 billion and possibly as much as $35 billion from federal … ⌘ Read more
Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0
While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne… ⌘ Read more
Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts
Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor… ⌘ Read more
Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk In South Korea
A four-foot humanoid robot named Gabi has become a monk at a Buddhist temple in Seoul, participating in a modified initiation ceremony where it pledged to respect life, obey humans, act peacefully toward other robots and objects. “Robots are destined to collaborate with humans in every field in the future,” Hong Min-suk, a manager at the Jogye Order, the largest sect … ⌘ Read more
FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes
FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems
The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that’s motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA’s packaged Linux driver… ⌘ Read more
Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload “ACR” For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids
Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids “DMR” is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels… ⌘ Read more
Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Cold War spies planted bugs in walls, lamps, and telephones. Now, scientists warn, the cables themselves could listen in. A fiber optic technique used to detect earthquakes can also pick up the faint vibrations of nearby speech, researchers reported this week here at the general assembly of the European Geos … ⌘ Read more
NASA Keeps Track As Mexico City Sinks Into the Ground
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Walking into Mexico City’s sprawling central Zocalo is a dizzying experience. At one end of the plaza, the capital’s cathedral, with its soaring spires, slumps in one direction. An attached church, known as the Metropolitan Sanctuary, tilts in the other. The nearby National Palace also seems off-kilter. The tee … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net ah, yes, the classical “fuck work!” in its verbose form. 😅😂
FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2 Brings Updated Zstd, Bug Fixes
FreeBSD 15.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in June. Out today is FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2… ⌘ Read more
Does Fidelity’s Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for ‘Small-Team Agile’?
Longtime Slashdot reader cellocgw writes: Hiding inside another layoff report, Fidelity is reorganizing: “The changes are aimed at moving the teams away from an ‘agile’ makeup – comprising smaller, siloed squads – and toward larger teams built to move faster on projects.” OMG, as they say: “Sudden outbrea … ⌘ Read more
Micron Ships Gigantic 245TB SSD
BrianFagioli writes: Micron says it is now shipping the world’s highest-capacity commercially available SSD, and the numbers are honestly hard to wrap your head around. The new Micron 6600 ION packs 245TB into a single drive and is aimed squarely at AI infrastructure, hyperscalers, and cloud providers dealing with exploding data growth. According to the company, the SSD can reduce rack counts by 82 percent … ⌘ Read more
New Linux ‘Dirty Frag’ Zero-Day Gives Root On All Major Distros
mrspoonsi shares a report: Dirty Frag is a vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel), that can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write vulnerability. Dirty Frag extends the bug class to which Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail be … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Und da konnte ich nicht widerstehen und hab die Folge doch sogleich angehört. Herrlich, sehr kurzweilig, spannend und lehrreich. In der Tat ganz schön viele Arschgesichter, hihihi. ;-)
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands of vibe-coded web applications created using the AI software development tools Lovable, Replit, Base44, and Netlify and found more than 5,000 of them that had v … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, cool! Holgi hab ich schon jahrelang nimmer gehört (allgemein Podcasts), das sollte ich schleunigst wieder ändern. Diese Folge scheint mir als Wiedereinstieg nach dem arbeitsreichen Wochenende bestens geeignet. Insbesondere die „Holgi ruft an“-Reihe hab ich in sehr guter Erinnerung.
Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs
The Pentagon has begun releasing new UFO/UAP files through a newly launched public website, starting with 162 documents from agencies including the FBI, State Department, NASA, and others. Officials say more files will be released on a rolling basis. The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own c … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de that https://namecensus.com/ is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.
Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement (paywalled; alternative source) for Intel to manufacture some chips used in Apple devices, after more than a year of talks and pressure from the Trump administration. It’s still unclear which Apple products would use Intel-made chips, but the deal would mark a major potential win for Intel’s … ⌘ Read more
AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Int … ⌘ Read more
Chrome Silently Installs a 4GB AI Model On Your Device Without Consent
Longtime Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from That Privacy Guy’s Alexander Hanff: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration … ⌘ Read more
Cloudflare To Cut About 20% Workforce As AI Adoption Reshapes Operations
Cloudflare plans to cut about 20% of its workforce, or more than 1,100 employees, as it restructures around an “agentic AI-first operating model.” Reuters reports: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and co-founder Michelle Zatlyn said in a message to employees that the company was reimagining every team and function to operate in what they de … ⌘ Read more
HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation
In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I’ve been benchmarking the past few weeks. This workstation remains Linux-friendly down to … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler
A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs… ⌘ Read more
DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption
Queued for merging as part of the DeviceMapper changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is the new dm-inlinecrypt target for leveraging inline block device encryption… ⌘ Read more
Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration
The Qt Group released the Qt Creator 20 Beta today for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE). In building off the trends of recent releases of Qt Creator and development tools at large, AI integration continues to be a big area of focus… ⌘ Read more
First Segment of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Is In Place
Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The Fehrmarnbelt tunnel is a European construction megaproject building a tunnel between Denmark and Germany, crossing the Fehmarnbelt in the Baltic sea. The first segment of the tunnel has now successfully been placed in its designated spot. This is a yet-unseen, next-level engineering feat achieved by the Danish Sund & Baelt con … ⌘ Read more
Ganz schön viele Arschgesichter hier: https://uebermedien.de/116944/
OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta’s Content-Aware Compression Software
Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there’s finally a new OpenZL software release available… ⌘ Read more
AMD’s Local, Open-Source AI Can Now Easily Interact With Your Gmail
AMD software engineers continue rapidly advancing their open-source software efforts around local AI/LLM use on consumer-class Radeon and Ryzen hardware. AMD GAIA 0.17.6 was released on Thursday with more improvements for local AI processing on Windows, Linux, and even macOS. For those trusting enough in local LLM pipelines to do the right thing, there is even integration now for AMD GAIA to interface with your Gmail account… ⌘ Read more
Linux Erroneously Thinks Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs Run At 7GHz
With Intel’s recently-launched Bartlett Lake P-core-only processors intended for the embedded market, there is a rather surprising oversight under Linux: the Intel P-State driver reporting a 7.0+ GHz clock speed. While many would yearn for a 7GHz CPU, the Core 9 273PE where this issue was discovered in reality can only boost up to 5.7GHz for its maximum turbo frequency… ⌘ Read more