@chpietsch@fedifreu.deNie wieder werde ich behaupten, dass die E-Mails, die die University of Edinburgh an ihre Alumni verschickt, nutzlos sind. Heute habe ich echt was daraus gelernt: automation bias.
Automation bias is the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems and to ignore contradictory information made without automation, even…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMilan-based Webidoo, which develops an operational layer designed to help SMBs access AI tools, raised $25M led by IXC3 for North American expansion (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/italia
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85M after raising a $25M Series A in February 2026 (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-altman-talks-about-his-fir…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/15/monumental-secures-32m-series-b-t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing "rational" fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/students-b
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialMaybe replacing jobs with AI was simply an ignorant, superficial narrative that certain gold-digging startups & fat cat business consultancies sold to boards & executive suites as "innovative strategic restructuring" & got paid $millions for it.
Reminds me of "progressive officing".
✅ The great AI layoff is turning into the great AI rehire - Fast Company
@cdarwin@c.imThe tech industry’s pricing scheme for AI is becoming more and more disconnected from reality
— so much so that even its biggest clients are starting to revolt.
Speaking during an interview on CNBC‘s“Squawk on the Street” segment earlier this week,
CEO of cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks Nikesh Arora implored the tech industry to lower the cost of AI.
During the segment, the chief executive argued that the cost to use large language models (LLMs) has to drop by 2…
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116713587055769588
I was actually using LLMs a couple of years ago for text classification. Before that I pushed hard for resources to support automation. I helped build an automation team where none existed. I pushed to use transformer models to solve problems before LLMs existed. I used simple ML to make predictions and classify issues. I've been on the cutting edge for a long time.
I *should* be an early adopter of the modern LLM thing. But tech oligarchs transformed themselves into reverse ouroboros (infinitely shoving their heads up their own asses). The oligarchs never really believed that other people had free will, but I think they had been too scared to let that slip. After the lockdowns, I think they just snapped and here we are.
As much as I trash LLMs, I've had a nuanced critique for a while (wiring about this now). The lack of consent is so huge. The oligarchs have plans for us, and it doesn't involve our consent.
Under different conditions, I do actually think there could be revolutionary elements to this tech (not so much LLMs themselves as LLM MCP, and not for the things they think). But without consent, I think (and hope) the friction will overcome the momentum.
"AI" is already more expensive than humans. It will never be profitable as long as people resist. There are multiplying problems, and I don't see those being fixed without collective effort. I have a lot of thoughts, but "consent" (or the real or implied lack thereof) is central to so many aspects of LLMs.
The oligarchs want to force LLM tech onto all of us without our consent. Ultimately, they want to replace us all with obedient machines. The mistake they made was assuming we would be as obedient as the LLMs with which they have become so obsessed.
@sean@scoat.esWow. Someone should write some science fiction about how replacing humans with hyped machines doesn't work out.
/s
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ford-ai-automation-humans-hiring-artificial-intelligence-b3004733.html
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caExploring the digital landscape can be a bit like starship navigation. There’s no time to hit "pause" and review the map! As you chart your online business journey, remember that with a keen eye on automation and efficiency, you've got the compass to steer toward success. #BusinessGrowth #EntrepreneurLife
@deabigt@universeodon.comFunny, so many people think AI will kill us all out of spite, when, clear back in Forbidden Planet (1956), it was clear that someone asking it to do something “stupid” was the real threat. This is why you limit what AI, or any automation, can do autonomously. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_forbbiden planet
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA great conversation with Bruce Nordman about how prices and automation can work together to ensure that distributed energy resources, such as electric vehicles, are charged (or discharged) optimally. He also dispels fears of synchronised peaks.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-for-using
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLimitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjod1pr11me
@servelan@newsie.socialPalantir's CEO; is this part of the plan to force women home?
This CEO warns that Democratic voters are most at risk from automation | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/14/palantir-ai-marco-rubio-afghanistan-katy-perry
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://
⭐ Starred a repository
dddabtc/winremote-mcp
Windows Remote MCP Server — 40 tools for desktop automation, process management, file operations via FastMCP
github.com/dddabtc/winremote-mcp
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOcado stock drops 14%, hitting a 13-year low, after it failed to show tangible progress in talks to secure new US partners for its warehouse automation tech (Sarah Young/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consum…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSAP launches its new Autonomous Enterprise software suite, integrating data, cloud, AI, and automation features to streamline business processes (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sap-launches-unified-ai-automation-suite-b02ac784…
@tschundler@leds.socialI had been doing some serverless home automation with esphome.io using `http_request` actions for one device to talk to another.
But a new 3-way switch I bought is Tuya not ESP, and can't use `http_request`. So today I learned about `packet_transport` https://esphome.io/components/packet_t
@aral@mastodon.ar.alDid you know there was a system called Red Box for the BBC Micro that enabled you to turn home appliances off and on using your computer? So, basically, an early version of HomeKit, etc.
In 1986.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/36892/BBC-Micro-Red-Box/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDoorDash launches an in-app AI chatbot to let users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/doordash-ai-ordering-automation.html
@cdarwin@c.imFord is rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired.
The US automaker hired over 350 veteran engineers,
referred to internally as “gray beards”,
over the past three years in order to address mistakes made by automated systems.
The staff will lead quality reviews
after the automation issues cost the company billions of dollars, Bloomberg reported,
while some workers will also help improve and train the AI systems.
@padraig@mastodon.ie
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialJoao Magalhaes will be at #bbuzz26 to explore how to bring software engineering discipline, reproducibility, and governance to workflow automation using GitOps principles with n8n.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/gitops-for-n8n-treating-workflows-as-code/
@gratianriter@bildung.socialGroßartiger Artikel von Emily Bender ("stocchic parrot") und Nanna Inie zur Frage, wie man über "KI" sprechen und gleichzeitig die Anthropomorphisierungsfalle umgehen kann:
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-wit…
![who’s right? → is the machine output correct?
they produce results → the team uses it [the system] to produce results](https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_91eb37814936490c95da7b85993cc2ff/bildungsocial/media_attachments/files/116/832/783/777/055/147/original/c2350249badb2921.png)
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚙️ #Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for data, #AI and infrastructure workflows, unifying scheduled and event-driven automation behind a declarative, language-agnostic interface #opensource
@stefan@gardenstate.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialSAP invests in German workflow automation platform n8n at a $5.2B valuation, up from $2.5B after an October 2025 equity raise, and agrees to embed n8n's tools (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle announces Gemini Intelligence, a brand that bundles existing and new Gemini features, including task automation and Create My Widget (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/928724/gemini-intelligence-android-io-autofill
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.infoSind diese KI-Dashboard-Thumbnails jetzt der heiße Scheiß? Nicht mehr Fratzen überall?
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations.
https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/08/authenticated-bootstrapping-of-dnssec-delegations/
saved 2022-04-10
@geant@mstdn.social✨ SIG-NOC Spring Meeting Recap ✨
Earlier this month, the NOC community gathered in Utrecht for the 24th SIG-NOC meeting, hosted by SURF and co-located with Security Days 2026.
Over two days, participants shared updates and discussed AI in operations, automation, routing security, community tools, sustainability, and staffing challenges.
🔗 Read more:
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialOh, I'm sure that's not happening here /s
Firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand?CMP=Share_AndroidA…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialOh, I'm sure that's not happening here /s
Firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand?CMP=Share_AndroidA…
@cheryanne@aus.socialBits & Bots For Business - By Rocking Rose Technology
For leaders, operators, and founders who sit at the intersection of technology, automation, and real-world business, hosted by Stephanie Gaddin...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/bits-b
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVenture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/funding-rises-deals-slump-h1-2026/…
@nohillside@smnn.chI‘m sure the laid off stuff is glad they are still considered human 🙄🤮
StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace 'Lower-Value Human Capital' - Slashdot https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/19/1640224/st…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialA fellow from SAP told me about this nice panel session from 2014 where representatives of variious languages - C , D, Go and Rust - discussed the future of programming, worth watching:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/lang-nex…
@deabigt@universeodon.comAfter pushing overdue automation AFTER laying off the people in implement it, now they want to add AI to the mess.
Trump Signs AI Executive Order Asking Companies to Give Government Early Access to Models https://ground.news/article/trump-signs-ai-executive-order-asking-companies-to-give-government-early-access-to-models_a15927
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialEvery technological acceleration is framed as a gift of time to all mankind...
The original promise of acceleration was always more free time. Washing machines would give us more leisure, email would cut our labour, automation would give us a 4 day work week, and so on. None of this really happened; a rising floor of expected output swallowed the gains, and so we signed up for more, and we ended up running faster to stay in the same damn place.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/sandstone-raises-30m-to-bring-ai…
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaSchool this term has been actually interesting enough to keep me invested. It's a nice change. I'm doing intro to Anthropology as an elective just because it's something I find interesting. Makes me wish that life was longer because I would love to go down a rabbit hole here.
My other course is software testing and automation. We're using Java and JUnit, which I don't love, but at least we're writing code again. I've had about three CS courses in a row now w…
@arXiv_csOS_bot@mastoxiv.pageEdge-Based QoS-Aware Adaptive Task Placement: A Closed-Loop Control in Multi-Robot Systems
Thien Tran, Jonathan Kua, Thuong Hoang, Minh Tran, Honghao Lyu, Jiong Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00552 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.00552 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.00552
arXiv:2606.00552v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-robot systems (MRS) increasingly offload compute-intensive perception tasks to edge nodes to meet strict time-sensitive Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints. However, static task orchestration on a shared edge node can severely degrade QoS due to network latency, jitter, and edge-resource contention. We present a pilot edge-centric MRS testbed using Raspberry Pi nodes to evaluate a camera-to-manipulator pipeline under three modes: local execution, static offloading, and a QoS-aware Adaptive Task Placement (ATP) controller. ATP scores candidate placements using a multi-metric cost (normalized latency, CPU utilization, and switching overhead) over two-second control windows. The closed-loop visual servoing testbed is instrumented with sub-millisecond clock synchronization, network emulation, and detailed monitoring of multiple metrics across nodes to capture realistic jitter. Experimental results under compute-stress and network-fault scenarios show that static edge offloading reduces on-board CPU load but amplifies tail latency and deadline misses. In contrast, the QoS-aware ATP controller, by switching task placement based on measured latency and utilization thresholds, consistently lowers deadline violations and tail latency. Overall, the results position ATP as a practical edge-side control primitive for MRS and concrete design guidelines for Cloud-Edge Robotics deployments within the broader cloud-fog automation, while motivating QoS-aware multi-objective workload orchestration for industrial cyber-physical systems.
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@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialSwitzerland’s practical experience with dynamic (grid) tariffs is driving standardisation, for example in tariff structures and APIs for automation. Other countries can learn from this.
https://bulletin.ch/dynamische-tarife-von-der-definition-zur-umsetzung…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe hunger for tinkering affordances helps explain the ubiquity of spreadsheets in the business world. [long subthread left as an exercise for the reader]
It also helps explain the traction of the “AI Agent” marketing. I can’t think of a technology that’s simultaneously done a better job of removing barriers to user-designed automation and done a worse job of helping people anticipate and deal with the consequences of automation. (Security and data integrity are two of the big places where attempts at deep tinkering affordances have crashed and burned.)
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@geant@mstdn.socialHow do you migrate an entire pan-European IP backbone network while keeping 1,240 services across 32 sites running without interruption?
Earlier this year, we announced the successful completion of GÉANT's IP backbone network migration.
Today, we want to share with you a story of how it actually happened. 🔎 Hint: it required a fundamental shift in how we think about our network, an automation platform, and teams working together in ways they never had before.
🔗
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCore Automation, co-founded by ex-OpenAI VP Jerry Tworek, launches to build "the world's most automated AI lab" with talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/core-autom
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Nornir: an automation framework in Python.
https://nornir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
saved 2020-03-23 https://dotat.a…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl'The company said it would not abandon its use of AI, but plans to now use it in conjunction with human oversight and experience.
“Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” said Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering.'
Soo ... back to 'ai' as being just another computer.
(And giving the extensive use of energy, i wonder if we can call it 'smart'...)
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialManeva, whose AI agents connect to existing camera infrastructure in factories to flag safety risks and measure worker productivity, raised a $27M Series A (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2026/06/10/maneva-27m-ser…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: AI model builder Core Automation, founded in March by Jerry Tworek, aims to raise $300M-$500M at a $4B valuation after raising $100M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says "advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams"; ESTC closed down 8.70% (Richard Speed/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: the share of entry-level hiring in India's tech sector fell to ~15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies shifted focus to AI and automation roles (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsNew on #blog: pkgbump: from a dumb tool to an irreplaceable helper
#Gentoo developer. It shouldn’t then be surprising that it is the one most asking for some kind of automation, and that the #pkgbump script would be one of the first scripts to become a part of the mgorny-dev-scripts package.
Today’s pkgbump have come a long way from the trivial script of its first iteration. The most recent versions finally feature the feature I desired for a long time: version manipulation. This also made it possible for the script to become a complete version bumping tool rather than just a part of a larger workflow. In this post, I’d like to shortly tell the story behind the changes, and demonstrate the new options.
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#packaging
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndustry data: India's six largest IT companies grew combined revenue from $95.9B in FY23 to $103.1B in FY26, while headcount remained broadly steady at ~1.9M (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere really is good reason to give people hermetically sealed, beautifully designed objects that aren’t very customizable but •just work•. And there’s no reason to think that we are anywhere close to solving the intrinsic difficulties that turn all computational automation into programming, and that make programming hard.
and yet…
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialCarbonSix, which is developing AI automation and robotic intelligence tech for manufacturing, raised a $40M Series A co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2026/07/carbonsix-raises-40m-in-series-a-funding.html
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caNavigating the online business world is no small feat. Here's an invaluable tip: embrace automation! 🤖 It streamlines tasks, boosts productivity, and cuts stress. Time saved is money earned – perfect for improving our families' lifestyles. So let's AUTOMATE FOR SUCCESS! 💼✨
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them "down to the unit level" (John Harney/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta HR chief Janelle Gale told employees she can't rule out further layoffs; Zuckerberg said AI automation is not the driving factor behind them (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-layoffs-hr-ceo-mark-zuckerb…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/privacy-companies-hit-with-record-fines-2025-gartner/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title "software engineer" is disappearing, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/boris-cherny-interview-ai-jobs/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPetual, which automates internal audit work and generates auditor-ready workpapers, raised $20M across a pre-seed led by First Round and a seed led by a16z (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/04/23/petual-20m-ai-audit-software
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCommure, which offers AI, revenue cycle management, and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $70M led by GC at a $7B post-money valuation (Paige Minemyer/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-ma
