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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-22 19:50:50

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
github…

quoted text: "Your approach of submitting very large relatively-low-effort PRs creates a very real risk of bringing the Pull-Request system to a halt, especially given that, in my personal experience, reviewing AI-written code is more taxing that reviewing human-written code." response: "I do not intend to submit any more PRs of this kind. This was a proof of concept and an attempt to push AI as far as it would go. I believe that it has succeeded brilliantly! Also, *I would not call this a l…
quoted text: "we have in fact known this for years and the difficulty is to find a way to do it that maintainers agree comes at a reasonable maintenance burden)." response: "I’m not a compiler developer by trade, although I’ve done all sorts of development over the years. I’m approaching this strictly as a user, perhaps a power user. I used to look at my needs and wants, and sulk because they were not addressed. Damn, I can’t debug OCaml on my Mac because there’s no DWARF info. Oh, wow…
quoted text: "I think that it is a case of different-to-the-point-of-being-incompatible software development processes (rather than a given process being fundamentally right or wrong), and I think that the uncertainty here is in part caused by our lack, on the upstream side, of a clear policy for what we expect regarding AI-assisted code contributions." response: "That is something I’ve been pondering myself. I tried approaching several projects this way, trying to take care of things that b…
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-10-21 16:36:58

These days, anti-GenAI screeds cross my radar every week. Even when I agree with what they’re saying (I often do), they’re mostly saying the same things. So, FWIW, here’s one with a fresh PoV: going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/
With an entertain…

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-21 13:25:49

Threat intel company Dataminr plans to acquire cybersecurity threat intel provider ThreatConnect for $290M; Dataminr raised $85M in convertible funding in March (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
cyberscoop.com/dataminr-threat

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The acquisition will combine Dataminr’s AI-powered analysis of public data with ThreatConnect’s internal threat management capabilities, creating what the companies describe as “Client-Tailored intelligence” that adapts to individual customer needs. The […]

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-10-21 06:54:00

Microsoft: Update außer der Reihe für Windows Recovery Environment
Ein ungeplantes Update für die Windows-Wiederherstellungsumgebung macht sie wieder bedienbar – auch mit USB-Keyboards und -Mäusen.

Microsoft: Update außer der Reihe für Windows Recovery Environment
Ein ungeplantes Update für die Windows-Wiederherstellungsumgebung macht sie wieder bedienbar – auch mit USB-Keyboards und -Mäusen.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-09-23 03:04:14

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Juana Aguirre:
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#JuanaAguirre
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-11-21 23:27:08

I’d replace the “but” with “and.” Be newly concerned •and• remain oldly concerned.
Otherwise 100% agree with this. digipres.club/@misty/115589615

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-10-21 13:54:28

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
cyberscoop.com/dataminr-threat

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The acquisition will combine Dataminr’s AI-powered analysis of public data with ThreatConnect’s internal threat management capabilities, creating what the companies describe as “Client-Tailored intelligence” that adapts to individual customer needs. The […]

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 16:20:41

Alphabet agrees to acquire clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75B in cash, and existing debt, as part of its push to dramatically expand AI data centers (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alphabet to Buy Data Center Partner Intersect for $4.75 Billion
Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant in its push to dramatically expand its data center footprint to power AI.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-22 07:31:02

Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access to internal systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $8M seed led by a16z and boldstart (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
siliconangle.com/2025/10/21/ai

AI agent security startup Keycard reels in $38M - SiliconANGLE
AI agent security startup Keycard reels in $38M - SiliconANGLE

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-21 12:26:46

Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20