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I use Rogue Amoeba’s software daily. They make kickass products that revolutionize how I use my Mac.
https://mastodon.social/@RogueAmoeba/115577778426778740

LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles
ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform.

"So the next time you find yourself asking why you're being inundated with AI wherever you go, remember that the answer is that someone with millions of dollars to spare paid for it on the off chance that it will yield a nice return."
(Original title: a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth)

a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.

Millions impacted by data breaches at insurance giant, auto dealership software firm https://therecord.media/millions-impacted-by-data-breaches-insurance-car-dealership-software

Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe hat in einem #Musterverfahren ein rechtskräftiges Urteil gegen illegale #Abschalteinrichtungen bei

Rechtskräftiges Dieselgate-Urteil in Sicht: Deutsche Umwelthilfe setzt mit Musterverfahren Gesundheitsschutz für Bevölkerung durch
· Oberverwaltungsgericht Schleswig legt Urteilsbegründung seines Urteils vom 25. September 2025 vor · Gericht verwirft Berufung des Kraftfahrt-Bundesamts und VW und lässt keine Revision im DUH-Verfahren gegen illegale Abschalteinrichtungen nach Software-Update zu · DUH erreicht acht Jahre nach Klageeinreichung Meilenstein zum Schutz der Gesundheit der Menschen in Deutschland· Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt muss gegen VW die Entfernung der illegalen Abschalteinrichtungen oder Stilllegung anordnen, s…

Soso, #Nexthink an eine US-amerikanische Firma zu verkaufen ist also ein grosser Erfolg.
Fühlt sich irgendwie falsch an.
Der Einschub «Diese Transaktion wird viel Geld in die Region zurückbringen, das reinvestiert werden kann» finde ich nur halbwegs tröstlich. Aber hey, ich bin ja auch kein VC...

Nexthink: Schweizer Softwarefirma für 3 Milliarden übernommen
Wenige Start-ups erreichen je den in der Businesswelt begehrten Einhornstatus. Nexthink war eines davon. Dass es verkauft wurde, sei ein Meilenstein für die Schweizer Techbranche, sagt ein Experte.

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic in Advanced Talks to Buy Developer Tool Startup in First Acquisition
Anthropic is in advanced discussions to buy Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The artificial intelligence company is in talks to pay in the low hundreds of millions of dollars for the startup, which would be ...

Code Agent can be an End-to-end System Hacker: Benchmarking Real-world Threats of Computer-use Agent
Weidi Luo, Qiming Zhang, Tianyu Lu, Xiaogeng Liu, Bin Hu, Hung-Chun Chiu, Siyuan Ma, Yizhe Zhang, Xusheng Xiao, Yinzhi Cao, Zhen Xiang, Chaowei Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06607

Code Agent can be an End-to-end System Hacker: Benchmarking Real-world Threats of Computer-use Agent
Computer-use agent (CUA) frameworks, powered by large language models (LLMs) or multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), are rapidly maturing as assistants that can perceive context, reason, and act directly within software environments. Among their most critical applications is operating system (OS) control. As CUAs in the OS domain become increasingly embedded in daily operations, it is imperative to examine their real-world security implications, specifically whether CUAs can be misused to perform realistic…

I bought my first modem at a post-Christmas sale in December 1992, and spent a few shot months discovering BBS’s and the text-based net before getting Mosaic and discover WWW in 1993. It opened up a whole new world! https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/11565105…

internetarchive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)
Attached: 1 image Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since. Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html #Wayback1T #In…

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company