New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer
“A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor,” writes The Guardian:

Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he never shot any scenes, but the c … ⌘ Read more

As an enjoyer of delightfully bad graphic design, found on most Czech village center cork boards, I’m sad to see the stolen clipart and badly cropped watermarked stock images, gradually replaced with AI slop.

This is far from a serious rant, but generating images of my kind being telepathically hit with sharp rocks, surely gives me a right to complain.

So far these seem the most prominent slop categories, seem to be…

Architecture slop:

1. find a sketch of what an old building looked like
   
   
2. generate an AI version, without correcting any of the perspective errors - this one is diagonally levitating
   
   
3. generate a recreation of the buildings demise - after going through the AI, for the second time, it is now a completely different building
   
   

Moralizing slop:

History slop:

US Government Now Wants Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’, Preparing for AI Cybersecurity Threats
Friday Anthropic’s CEO met with top U.S. officials and “discussed opportunities for collaboration,” according to a White House spokesperson itedd by Politico, “as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology.”

CNN notes the meeting happens at the same … ⌘ Read more

Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies
Some failed startups are reportedly selling old Slack messages, emails, and other internal records to AI companies as training data, creating a new way to cash out after shutting down. Fast Company reports: Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, … ⌘ Read more

Mozilla ‘Thunderbolt’ Is an Open-Source AI Client Focused On Control and Self-Hosting
BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla’s email subsidiary MZLA Technologies just introduced Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client aimed at organizations that want to run AI on their own infrastructure instead of relying entirely on cloud services. The idea is to give companies full control over their data, models, an … ⌘ Read more

‘TotalRecall Reloaded’ Tool Finds a Side Entrance To Windows 11 Recall Database
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two years ago, Microsoft launched its first wave of “Copilot+” Windows PCs with a handful of exclusive features that could take advantage of the neural processing unit (NPU) hardware being built into newer laptop processors. These NPUs could enable AI and machine le … ⌘ Read more

Google, Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet’s Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy its Gemini AI models in classified settings, the Information reported on Thursday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The two parties are discussing an agreement that would allow the Pentagon to use Go … ⌘ Read more

Inside Canva’s $100 billion gamble on an AI-first rebuild
Melanie Perkins pitched the idea in 2011 and was knocked back by 100 investors. Fifteen years, Canva is finally building it. ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Opus 4.7, an AI Model That Is Less Risky Than Mythos
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, calling it its strongest generally available model and an improvement over Opus 4.6 in areas like software engineering, instruction-following, tool use, and agentic coding. But the company says it is “less broadly capable” than the restricted Claude Mythos Preview, “which Anthropic rolled … ⌘ Read more

Mozilla Announces “Thunderbolt” As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client
Mozilla today announced “Thunderbolt” as an open-source AI client built for control and independence. Mozilla Thunderbolt, while having the worst possible name, is built for organizations and others wanting to deploy self-hosted AI infrastructure… ⌘ Read more

免安装 OpenClaw！复旦 NLP 团队把🦞搬进科研神器，复现论文竟然能全自动了！
复现一篇论文，你通常要花多久？配环境、装依赖、改 Bug，一通折腾下来，一周起步。现在，这件事，已经可以交给 AI 自动完成了。而且，是一只“龙虾”。 最近 AI 圈最火的莫过于那只无所不能的龙虾 OpenClaw，已经被复旦 NLP 团队悄悄塞进了一个科研工具里： 不少人还在苦恼如何配置复杂的环境 ⌘ Read more

Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Can Now Read Gauges, Spot Spills, and Reason
Boston Dynamics has integrated Google DeepMind into its robotic dog Spot, giving it more autonomous reasoning for industrial inspections like spotting spills and reading gauges. Spot can also now recognize when to call on other AI tools. IEEE Spectrum reports: Boston Dynamics is one of the few companies to commercially deploy legge … ⌘ Read more

SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions
The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)… ⌘ Read more

Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
Cal is moving its flagship scheduling software from open source to a proprietary license, arguing that AI coding tools now make it much easier for attackers to scan public codebases for vulnerabilities. “Open source security always relied on people to find and fix any problems,” said Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal. “Now AI attackers are flaunting that transparency.” CEO Bailey Pumflee … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL. I think I get the idea. I am concerned about AI too. Managers starting with “I don’t know anything about this, but here is what says”. Infuriating.

I came across this one today, here is a gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/art-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bFA.XNiu.ZukFfdNl3Al1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Snapchat Blames AI As It Cuts 1,000 Jobs
Snap is laying off about 1,000 employees, or 16% of its workforce, while closing 300 open roles as it tries to cut costs and push toward profitability with more AI-driven efficiency. “While these changes are necessary to realize Snap’s long-term potential, we believe that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence enable our teams to reduce repetitive work, increase velocity, and better support o … ⌘ Read more

Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against NVIDIA RTX & AMD Radeon AI PRO
Last week after receiving the Intel Arc Pro B70 review hardware I began with some benchmarks looking at how the Arc Pro B70 compared to existing Intel GPUs on Linux with their fully open-source driver stack. Today’s article features the latest Arc Pro B70 benchmarks under Linux in looking at how the performance and value compares to other NVIDIA RTX and AMD Radeon (AI) PRO workstation graphics cards in the lab. ⌘ Read more

Struggling Shoe Retailer Allbirds Pivots To AI, Stock Explodes More Than 700%
Allbirds made a surprise announcement this morning: it’s pivoting from sustainable shoes to AI compute infrastructure, rebranding as NewBird AI after selling its brand assets and closing its U.S. full-price stores. The move sent shares soaring more than 700%. CNBC reports: The move boosted shares of the miniscule market ca … ⌘ Read more

免安装 OpenClaw！复旦 NLP 团队把🦞搬进科研神器，复现论文竟然能全自动了！
复现一篇论文，你通常要花多久？配环境、装依赖、改 Bug，一通折腾下来，一周起步。现在，这件事，已经可以交给 AI 自动完成了。而且，是一只“龙虾”。 最近 AI 圈最火的莫过于那只无所不能的龙虾 OpenClaw，已经被复旦 NLP 团队悄悄塞进了一个科研工具里： 不少人还在苦恼如何配置复杂的环境 ⌘ Read more

Modal 提供免费的 GLM-5.1 模型到月底，但限速 1
Modal 是一个提供云AI算力的平台，目前提供免费的 GLM-5.1 模型到月底，但限制并发请求 1。 模型入口 直接在该页面左侧点击 Sign in 注册即可： 然后可以看到并发请求限制为 1，也就是同一时间段只能有一个连接。 以及模型来自 Z.ai，2026年4月发布，746B 参数。 免费到 ⌘ Read more

免安装 OpenClaw！复旦 NLP 团队把🦞搬进科研神器，复现论文竟然能全自动了！
复现一篇论文，你通常要花多久？配环境、装依赖、改 Bug，一通折腾下来，一周起步。现在，这件事，已经可以交给 AI 自动完成了。而且，是一只“龙虾”。 最近 AI 圈最火的莫过于那只无所不能的龙虾 OpenClaw，已经被复旦 NLP 团队悄悄塞进了一个科研工具里： 不少人还在苦恼如何配置复杂的环境 ⌘ Read more

iPhone、安卓现在就能跑 Gemma 4 了：Google 开源 AI Edge Gallery 应用
现在，通过 Google 的开源应用 Google AI Edge Gallery，已经可以直接在 iPhone 和安卓手机上运行 Gemma 4 E2B、E4B 两个模型了，不消耗任何 Token，能离线使用。而且不只是对话，还支持图片、语音，甚至加入了 Skills。 不用等啦，现在就能用。 G ⌘ Read more

免安装 OpenClaw！复旦 NLP 团队把🦞搬进科研神器，复现论文竟然能全自动了！
复现一篇论文，你通常要花多久？配环境、装依赖、改 Bug，一通折腾下来，一周起步。现在，这件事，已经可以交给 AI 自动完成了。而且，是一只“龙虾”。 最近 AI 圈最火的莫过于那只无所不能的龙虾 OpenClaw，已经被复旦 NLP 团队悄悄塞进了一个科研工具里： 不少人还在苦恼如何配置复杂的环境 ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware
ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side… ⌘ Read more

Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable ‘Skills’
Google is rolling out a Chrome feature called “Skills” that lets users save Gemini prompts as reusable one-click workflows they can run across multiple tabs. The feature also includes preset Skills from Google. It’s launching first for Chrome desktop users set to US English. The Verge reports: Once you have access to the feature, it can be managed by t … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Or maybe I’m just shitty at communication and maybe that’s why nobody at work understands my “arguments” against AI/LLMs. 🤪🤣

(I’m too tired to rephrase the OP. Maybe some other day. Actually, rest assured that I will complain about this again. 😅)

Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics
As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the … ⌘ Read more

中国区 Affinity 上线，全免费，无 AI 功能
Affinity 是一套用于图像处理、矢量设计和排版出版的专业设计软件。在被 Canva 收购后，目前 Affinity 已完全免费开放下载、使用，并且在近日上线了中国区官网。 Affinity 整合了 Affinity Photo、Affinity Designer、Affinity Publis ⌘ Read more

frp v0.68：开源内网穿透工具简洁教程，新增 AI 能力：持久化存储、API 支持，可由 AI 添加、删除代理
著名的开源内网穿透工具 frp v0.68 更新，添加了内置存储功能，以及通过 API 操作代理功能。今后可通过 AI 来操作 frp 客户端，无需重启。 frp v0.68 frp 的这个新功能，青小蛙觉得，就是为 AI 准备的。 持久化存储功能 在 frpc 客户端配置中，添加即可 ⌘ Read more

Stanford Report Highlights Growing Disconnect Between AI Insiders and Everyone Else
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI experts and the public’s opinion on the technology are increasingly diverging, according to Stanford University’s annual report on the AI industry, which was released Monday. In particular, the report noted a growing trend of anxiety around AI and, in the U.S … ⌘ Read more

Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta’s With Several Styles, Oval Cameras
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is developing display-free AI smart glasses aimed at rivaling Meta’s Ray-Bans, with multiple frame styles, a distinctive oval camera design, and tight iPhone integration. “The idea is to unveil the product at the end of 2026 or early the following year, with the actual release coming in 2027,” writ … ⌘ Read more

FBI Raids Texas Home of Man Suspected of Firebombing Sam Altman’s SF Mansion
The FBI searched the Texas home of a 20-year-old man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s San Francisco residence. Authorities say the suspect also made threats at OpenAI’s headquarters, and reports indicate he had written extensively about fears over AI and opposition to AI executives.

The suspect reporte … ⌘ Read more

Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings
According to the Financial Times, Meta is developing an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg that could interact with employees using his voice, image, mannerisms, and public statements, “so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.” The Verge reports: Meta may start allowing creators … ⌘ Read more

Another AI rant:

One of the “key features” of LLMs is that you can use “natural language”, because that is supposed to be easier than having to learn a programming language. So, when someone says to me, “I automated this process using AI!”, what they mean is: They have written a very, very large Markdown document. In this document, they list what the AI is supposed to do.

In prose.

This is a complete disaster.

Programming and programming languages have one crucial property: They follow a well-defined structure and every word has a well-defined meaning. That is absolutely brilliant, because I can read this and I can follow the program in my head. I can build a mental model. I can debug this, down to the precise instructions that the CPU executes. This all follows well-defined patterns that you can reason about.

But with these Markdown files, I am completely lost. We lose all these important properties! No debugging, no reasoning about program flow, nothing. It’s all gone. It’s a magic black box now, literally randomized, that may or may not do what you wanted, in some order.

People now throw these Markdown files at me … and … am I supposed to read this? Why? It’s completely random and fuzzy.

Sadly, these AI tools are good enough to be able to mostly grasp the authors intentions. Hence people don’t see the harm they cause, because “it works”.

We already have a ton of automations like this at work: Tickets get piped through an LLM and these Markdown files / prompts determine what will happen with the ticket, and maybe they trigger additional actions as well, like account creation or granting permissions. All based on fuzzy natural language – that no two humans will ever properly agree on.

Jesus Christ, we’re now INTENTIONALLY bringing the ambiguity of legal texts and lawyers into programming.

Using natural language is NOT easier than using a programming language. It is HARDER. Have you people never read a legal contract? And that stuff can STILL be debated in a court room.

I can’t begin to comprehend why we, tech folks, push this so hard. What is wrong with you? Or me?

(And, once again, we’re ignoring other factors here. LLMs use a ton of energy and ressources, that we don’t have to spare. It’s expensive as fuck. It doesn’t even run locally on our servers, meaning we give all these credentials and permissions to some US company. It’s insane.)

Californians Sue Over AI Tool That Records Doctor Visits
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the p … ⌘ Read more

Will Some Programmers Become ‘AI Babysitters’?
Will some programmers become “AI babysitters”? asks long-time Slashdot readertheodp. They share some thoughts from a founding member of Code.org and former Director of Education at Google:

“AI may allow anyone to generate code, but only a computer scientist can maintain a system,” explained Google.org Global Head Maggie Johnson in a LinkedIn post. So “As AI-generated code beco … ⌘ Read more

The 7.0 kernel has been released
Linus has released the 7.0 kernel after a
busy nine-week development cycle.

The last week of the release continued the same “lots of small
fixes” trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I’ve
tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out.

I suspect it’s a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner
cases for us for a while, so this may be the “new normal” at least
for a while. Only time will tell.

Significant changes in this release incl … ⌘ Read more

Neuroscientist’ AI-Powered Startup AIms To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory
Bloomberg describes him as a “former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience.”
“For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories,” Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now “My co-founder … ⌘ Read more

Greg Kroah-Hartman Tests New ‘Clanker T1000’ Fuzzing Tool for Linux Patches
The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — “has made its way into the Linux kernel,” reports the blog It’s FOSS “thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kernel maintainer and the closest thing the project has to a second-in-command.”

He’s been quietly running what looks like an AI-assisted fuzzing tool o … ⌘ Read more

AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco
Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters “systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free”? It was Anthropic’s experiment, with setup handled by a startup named Andon Labs (which also built the hardware and software integration). But for th … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

even our hippest AI enthusiasts found it absolutely terrible

Does this refer to the training course or to the tools themselves? 🤔

AMD’s GAIA Now Allows Building Custom AI Agents Via Chat, Becomes “True Desktop App”
In addition to their efforts around the Lemonade SDK itself, AMD software engineers working on their AI initiatives continue to be investing quite a bit into the Lemonade-using GAIA, the project that originally stood for “Generative AI Is Awesome”. AMD’s GAIA now allows building your own custom AI agents via chatting with GAIA as well as becoming a “true desktop app” so it’s easier to deploy across Windows, Linux, and macOS envi … ⌘ Read more

First US Newsroom Strike For AI Protections Staged by ProPublica’s Journalists
It’s the first time a major U.S. newsroom has gone on strike partly to demand protections from AI-related layoffs, according to a report from Nieman Lab.

They noted that one of the picketer’s signs read “Thoughts not bots,” :

On Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsr … ⌘ Read more

The AI RAM Shortage is Also Driving Up SSD Prices
In 2024 the Verge’s consumer tech reporter paid $173 for a WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD. But “now that same SSD costs $649…”

“Like with RAM, demand from the AI industry is swallowing up supply from a limited number of manufacturers, leading to a drastic reduction in the inventory that’s available to consumers” — and skyrocketing prices:

The price on my WD Black drive nearl … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I couldn’t agree more! I also have the feeling that it causes more people to just accept “it’s a software problem, there’s nothing that can be done about it”. Which is very frightning to me.

Up until now, I was successful in refusing to actively use that crap. I had to do one mandatory AI training, but even our hippest AI enthusiasts found it absolutely terrible. Probably also nailed together by the same rubbish they want us to now use everyday as much as possible.

Code reviews are the part that I have to deal with most. And I believe that the code quality is degrading.

Let’s hope the bubble bursts sooner than later. It will definitely burst at some point. That’s for sure.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yes, and that’s why I’m 100% convinced that we’ll see a massive brain drain in a couple of years. This will affect young people even more, because they don’t have all the “old” knowledge to fall back on.

It’s concerning, I’ve warned about it many times, nobody listens.

I think the best thing one can do is explicitly not use any AI tools but keep your actual skills intact. Might be out of a (good) job for a while, but once this bubble bursts, this is who is going to get hired again. (I think.)

And considering how insanely expensive all this is, I’m still (mostly) convinced that the bubble will actually burst. This stuff just isn’t sustainable.

… or I might be wrong. And if so, I see an even darker future that I don’t want to put into words right now.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org AI result ahead, feel free to ignore.

I “asked” the AI at work the same question out of morbid curiousity. It “said” that SQLite converts that integer to floating point internally on overflows and then, when converting back, the x86 instruction cvttsd2si will turn it into 0x8000000000000000, even if the actual floating point value is outside of that range. So, yes, it allegedly actually saturates, as a side effect of the type conversion.

I couldn’t find anything about that automatic conversion in SQLite’s manual, yet, but an experiment looks like it might be true:

sqlite> select typeof(1 << 63);
╭─────────────────╮
│ typeof(1 << 63) │
╞═════════════════╡
│ integer         │
╰─────────────────╯

sqlite> select typeof((1 << 63) - 1);
╭──────────────────────╮
│ typeof((1 << 63) ... │
╞══════════════════════╡
│ real                 │
╰──────────────────────╯

As for cvttsd2si, this source confirms the handling of 0x8000000000000000 on range errors: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/cvttsd2si

The following C program also confirms it (run through gdb to see cvttsd2si in action):

<a href="https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23include">#include</a> <stdint.h>
<a href="https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23include">#include</a> <stdio.h>

int
main()
{
    int64_t i;
    double d;

    /* -3000 instead of -1, because `double` can’t represent a
     * difference of -1 at this scale. */
    d = -9223372036854775808.0 - 3000;

    i = d;
    printf("%lf, 0x%lx, %ld\n", d, i, i);

    return 0;
}

(Remark about AI usage: Fine, I got an answer and maybe it’s even correct. But doing this completely ruined it for me. It would have been much more satisfying to figure this out myself. I actually suspected some floating point stuff going on here, but instead of verifying this myself I reached for the unethical tool and denied myself a little bit of fun at the weekend. Won’t do that again.)

Microsoft Begins Removing Copilot Branding From Windows 11 Apps
Microsoft has started stripping Copilot branding out of Notepad in Windows 11, replacing the old Copilot menu with a more generic “writing tools” label. The AI features themselves aren’t going away, but Microsoft seems to be backing off the heavy-handed Copilot branding and extra entry points. Windows Central reports: As promised, Microsoft is now … ⌘ Read more

AI Is Coming for Car Salesmen
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Drive: An auto dealer software company is pitching AI-powered kiosks designed to replace car salesmen on showroom floors. Automotive News says the industry is “skeptical.” But be honest – would you really rather deal with the average car lot shark than a computer?

Epikar, a South Korean company that cooks up digital management solutions for car dealers, has named its n … ⌘ Read more

从记事本、截图工具开始，微软删除 Windows 11 中的 Copilot 按钮
针对微软《我们对 Windows 质量的承诺》，目前 Windows 11 测试版中的记事本、截图工具已经删除了 Copilot 按钮，不再进行强制 AI 集成。@Appinn 注意，此前微软承诺要修的 Windows 11 bug，均属于测试版，用户需要加入预览体验计划（Windows Insid ⌘ Read more