@mia@hcommons.socialEvaluating the multiplatform museum in an age of automation | by Indigo Holcombe-James | ACMI LABS (from 2024 - how are these questions shaping up in 2026?)
https://labs.acmi.net.au/evaluating-the-multiplatform-museum-in-an-age-of-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (Anjali Jain/Inc42 Media)
https://inc42.com/buzz/automation-startup-unbox-robotics-r…
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaIs anyone using Packer and VMware and Rocky Linux? I'm having an issue with Rocky 10 and the packer boot. Using the example boot command here https://docs.rockylinux.org/10/guides/automation/templates-automation-packer-vsphere/ I end up with a …
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euI like AI. I like robots. I love machine learning automation. I don't like it when their use cases are replacing people, spying on or profiling people, prosecuting people, submitting people into subscription, creating "art", "videos", "pictures" and scumbag "memes", warfare, propaganda, disinformation, deepfakes of any kind, ads, trolling, pumping up stocks, just plain wrong search results that force you to waste twice as much time to confirm they …
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@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialRE: #n8n kicked this build of by sen…
@deabigt@universeodon.comAn example of how the DOGE fallout is still impacting government agencies. Note how IT is primarily affected despite the supposed move toward automation and modernization, which require IT resources.
IRS looks to shrink office space after losing a quarter of its workforce last year https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/02/irs-looks-to-shrink-office-space-after-losing-a-quarter-of-its-workforce-last-year/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWorktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and unveils a workflow automation agent (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/worktrace-ai-automation-openai
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialA great tool gone... now only on https://web.archive.org/web/20240919042813/https://www.agocontrol.com/
- but it's open source, so the code lives on, on GitHub:
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usAATMAA – SOUNDS OF AUTOMATION
https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-automation
https://www.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialResearchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that artificial intelligence (AI) assistants that support web browsing or URL fetching capabilities can be turned into stealthy command-and-control (C2) relays, a technique that could allow attackers to blend into legitimate enterprise communications and evade detection.
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@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeA big advantage of home automation / #homeassistant is that you can remotely mess up and accidentally defrost your fridge because somehow the smart plug it is connected to is turned off while applying a software update. Bonus points for doing so while away for multiple weeks. Ask me how I know.
I’ll have to write an automation that sends me a notification when the plug is turned of…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialE.W. Scripps is expected to make layoffs in the near future as it seeks to grow adjusted earnings by up to $150M over three years; in 2024, it had 5K staff (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/scripps-layoffs-cos…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSimple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Use automation to create order-of-magnitude increases in “productivity” in the early stages of internal process pipelines with downstream bottlenecks.
Generate •massive• amounts of code. Flood the system with promising leads. Start more initiatives than there are people.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to[OT] Dilbert? Salesforce steps back from AI: Executives reveal overconfidence in LLMs, pivot to deterministic automation https://opentools.ai/news/salesforce-steps-back-from-ai-executives-reveal-overconfidence-in-ll…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI think there is a leftist case for some automation, I do not think that hat understanding of automation includes many LLMs though.
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@geant@mstdn.socialReclaiming the human mind 🧠
In our latest #GEANTCybersecurity expert article, Panayiota Smyrli (Digital Security Authority) examines a quiet shift: as automation grows, our critical thinking shrinks.
AI drafts our ideas, finishes our sentences, and even nudges our decisions.
Panayiota invites us to step back, slow down, & reintroduce small mental challenges: doing t…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🔧 Deploy via SGLang, vLLM, MLX, llamacpp with OpenAI-compatible API endpoints
💻 QwenCode CLI agent for terminal-based development workflows & large codebase automation
🔓 Apache-2.0 open-weight release for flexible developer adoption
🌐 https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.5
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Siemens CEO Roland Busch on the company's 170 year history, automation, managing 320K staff, US manufacturing investments, augmenting LLMs, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/875233/sie…
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaGina Verrastro will speak on 'Give ‘Em Shell: Joyful Automation For The Busy Programmer' as part of our Developer track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today various bits of admin including starting things for this year's sustainability hackathon at uni, and very slowly and carefully* fetching and processing the extra 2025 house heating data set again (I'll do most tomorrow).
*Automation, I've heard of it! But it didn't work out so well last time, so I'm eyeballing probably millions of data points as I go this time...<…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe number of new software vulnerabilities discovered could top 100,000 in 2026, according to the latest forecast by FIRST. But that doesn't necessarily mean more cyberattacks. Check out my latest CSO piece on how CISOs might have to up their efforts to separate signal from noise as CVE volume soars.
Many thanks to Michael Roytman of Empirical Security, Éireann Leverett of FIRST, and Sasha Romanosky of Rand for their insights.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Coding for non-programmers: we need better web GUI automation tools.
https://matduggan.com/why-we-need-better/
saved 2021-10-23 https://<…
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/fedex-raj-subramaniam.html…
@adrianco@mastodon.social#AdventOfSystemSeeing I finally caught up with @… - partly by using some skill enhancement automation. Here’s days 8 and 9 on Contexts and Interactions.
@jake4480@c.imSnapcase afternoon. This is my favorite Snapcase record. 2000 strong.
#Snapcase
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialA recurring issue:
Source of Truth vs Point of Truth with many-system setups.
Imagine having separate
- issue tracking (e.g. JIRA)
- time tracking (e.g. Toggl)
- development tracking (e.g. GitLab)
- daily team sync (e.g. Confluence)
- weekly sync with stakeholders (...)
Without diligent manual labor or a lot of handcrafted automation, those keep getting out of sync.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWhen the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …
@stsquad@mastodon.org.ukI hope everyone who celebrates it had a great Christmas yesterday. Today was 2/3 for #automation #diy. I can now see #co2 levels in the living room and toggle the garage door from
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaOn the automation front it's a bit imperfect the installer shows it's fetching an image, but when booted into Aurora for the 1st time it notifies me my current image is a month old. Ujust update fixes that, but it's an additional 3.4Gb download that imho should've been taken care of during install?
#auroralinux
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management company to over $1B revenue, the "SaaS apocalypse", using AI agents to review expenses, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/ramp-founder-eric-glyman-on-the-many
@thomasafine@social.linux.pizzaCan anyone explain to me like I'm 5 how shorter, automated certificates are an improvement in security, rather than an increased risk?
Seems as stupid as password aging, but worse, because encouraging automation is encouraging the creation of another, fragile, hackable system, while moving towards less human oversight than doing it manually.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/c3-ai-talks-merge-startup-autom…
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaIME, a lot of good information on how to achieve things with the #OpenHAB Rules DSL requires good searching on the OpenHAB forums or mining through the Javadoc.
I thought I'd use Claude over the weekend/last night to help generify some stuff in my config, and it suggested a cool approach whereby I could put metadata against items and then use that metadata in my rules to customise b…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeOnly one day left in the first work week of 2026, so don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Salt Typhoon infiltrated US House China Committee, other committees, sources,
--TX court enjoins Samsung from using or selling consumer data,
--FCC exempts some Chinese tech at Pentagon's request,
--Man accused of stealing Snapchat access codes for 600 women for university coach,
--Ni8ma…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHow can business leaders design & implement agentic AI, run high impact pilots & build the human skills that set Frontier firms apart?
▶️ AI and automation expert on how leaders use AI agents to get ahead | Pascal Bornet - #Microsoft #Worklab
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usGot a new fun home automation project to play with in the coming days: Open Epaper displays with https://openepaperlink.de/
Currently figuring out the optimal position for this AP to get the base range out of it before adding all the automations to @…
@geant@mstdn.social🌐 GÉANT completes major migration of its pan-European IP backbone network
Delivered with partners Nokia and Nomios, the upgrade modernises GÉANT’s IP layer, enabling higher capacity, improved resilience & enhanced security for the European R&E community.
Key highlights:
🔹IP/MPLS backbone with support for 800G connectivity, including to the edges of Europe
🔹 Fully automated migration using the GÉANT Automation Platform (GAP)
🔗 Read more:
@adrianco@mastodon.socialAfter a couple of weeks off, I’m back to having fun coding with Claude. I spend most of my time watching, so I’m running two ( totally separate project) coding sessions at the same time in different Codespaces windows. The public one is https://GitHub.com/brazil-bench where I’m setting up a github issues based…
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialFord plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to debut Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/857400/ford-ai-as…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOnebrief, which makes AI-powered military workflow software, raised a $200M Series D, nearly doubling its valuation from $1.1B to $2.1B in about half of a year (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/onebrief-demaree-battleroad-seriesd-ai
@Techmeme@techhub.socialServal, which offers an AI-powered IT support assistant, raised a $75M Series B led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation, bringing its total raised to $127M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-startup-serval-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGravis Robotics, which adds cameras, sensors, and AI to heavyweight construction machines so they can operate autonomously, raised $23M led by IQ and Zacua (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/28/gravis-robotic…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839062/square-product-ch…
@frankel@mastodon.topHow I Used #AI to #Audit 3 Years of #SmartHome #TechDebt (And Built a System to Prevent It From Happening Again)
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialCyera researchers detail Ni8mare, a critical RCE flaw that lets hackers access local instances of the n8n workflow automation platform, impacting ~100K servers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secur…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSkyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/skyryse…
@askans@bonn.social50% of #GenAI budgets
go to sales and marketing, but back-office automation often yields better ROI.
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ai_report_2025.pdf
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral (Philosopher Count)
https://philiptrammell.substack.com/p/capital-in-the-22nd-century
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Workspace Studio, a no-code tool to create, design, manage, and share AI agents, for users on Business and Enterprise Workspace plans (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/03/google-workspace-studio/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenSourceMalware: 230 malicious OpenClaw extensions, disguised as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27 (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMunich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and factory automation software, raised $100M led by Lingotto and Lightspeed, a source says at a $500M valuation (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-
