The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. Microsoft Microsoft Teams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more

Microsoft Bot recommends Linux 🤔

Rishi Sunak has offered his resignation to The King but Keir Starmer has yet to be appointed as Prime Minister, so who's in charge? Me.

despite little benefit & multitude of harms, AI companies are aggressively pushing GenAI everywhere & successful adoption depends on public perception of AI. so how do prominent venues like NYT report on AI? who’s voices & perspectives are most frequently cited in NYT articles?

Dans un mail donnant des conseils pour effacer sa présence sur Internet et créer un mot de passe Orange France annonce maintenant facturer le downgrade de son forfait Internet. 49 euros pour basculer sur un forfait moins disant dès le 10 octobre.

Cloud de confiance : La qualification SecNumCloud, indispensable pour prospérer sur le marché français ? usine-digitale.fr/article/cloud-…

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO danluu.com/ballmer/

Nos politiques n’ont aucune hygiène numérique. Pour ne pas dire qu’ils sont crades et naïfs. Le simple fait d’utiliser Telegram est une ineptie.

There have been two sides to this discussion. (1) People who look at the business as a whole, from foundry to product with financials, and believe Gelsinger was on the right path and mostly think he should have stayed to see it through as fundamental change takes years (as does

Great selection of Blockbuster games available on Quest. I can really see that Fish Game, Moke, and Mouse Runners are all the type of top tier, AAA apps that make Behemoth, Batman, Venedetta Forever, Action Hero, and others to complete shame. ...what the heck is going on

Zuck: Apple is “squeezing people” for money with their 30% app store fee. Also Zuck:

Hey XR/AR/VR community! Windup Minds can use your support! We're shipping the spiritual successor to Bogo: Stay: Forever Home. I'd love your help by wishlisting our game! meta.com/experiences/st…

Whenever I post something critical of Meta’s handling of VR, there are always some old timers that pile on with “Yeah! More AAA PC VR Games is the way to win!”. To be clear — standalone VR was the biggest win that VR ever had, by a huge margin, and Beat Saber was far more

The demo we are showing is an RL agent on a laptop playing an unmodified Atari with a robotic controller moving the joystick and a camera looking at the screen.

Software engineers shouldn't fear being replaced by AI. They should fear being asked to maintain the sprawling mess of AI-generated legacy code their employer's systems will soon run on. Because that one will actually happen.

Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen.

AI companies seeing 300TB of music "archived" publicly

If you're feeling lonely on X, just post about how Telegram isn't an encrypted messenger. It'll reliably fill your mentions with 40 accounts named 'Priv8User420', all sharing made-up cryptography facts and Telegram memes. It's the closest thing X has to a support group.