@Techmeme@techhub.socialGlimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200 brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/a16z
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… is this some automation testing going on, is ai involved or are you an actual human?
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeI got the demo of this game but I am too moronic to pass the very first level.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707490/Tower_Factory/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automation-uber…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioGuess what? Folder Automation using Shortcuts in Tahoe sounds amazing.
Indeed, the moment I wanted to do something really useful it stopped working. No errors. No logs. No feedback.
Does it sound like #Apple software quality? Yes, it does.
@ellie@ellieayla.netplease install our arbitrary remote code execution app, really, it's like the cloud (nee butt) but new & shiny & there's so much investment, just use our mega automated automation to unlock 100% of copy/paste from stackoverflow, it's so much faster than plagiarizing by hand, we promise it's not a total scam to keep oil extraction happening a bit longer, pretty please, you don't want to be left behind, please don't call it slop, if this con works I can make get another yacht, please??
#fuckai
@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.socialGoogle launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling it to autonomously navigate apps like Uber and DoorDash (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/884210/google-gemini-samsung-s26-pixel-10-uber
@stefan@gardenstate.social
@rettichschnidi@swiss.socialHeute ab 18:30 findet das #EmbeddedSoftwareMeetup zum Thema #HomeAssistant bei #SupercomputingSystems in
@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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US FCC opens a comment period for a proposal to help return outsourced call center jobs to the US; critics say the plan could drive companies to automation (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…
@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:
@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…
@… Thank you for bringing this up to me, and I’m so sorry about the spam. There was some issues with my automation. I have removed all the posts that weren’t intended to be posted.
@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
@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…
@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…
@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.
@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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@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/
@cdarwin@c.imAI might disrupt all those pesky highly-educated female voters who keep casting a ballot for Democrats.
To be clear: that assessment isn’t coming from me
Rather, it’s coming from one of the key architects of our glorious AI-driven economy: Alex Karp, the co-founder and CEO of tech firm Palantir.
On Thursday Karp sat down with CNBC to chat about Palantir’s AI-driven Maven Smart System,
which the US military is using to visualize potential targets and “nominate” them to…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioI believe I've heard that Shortcuts Automation does *not* work with iCloud folders on #macOS?
Could experts confirm this?
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineRumor that SAG-AFTRA is seeking expanding their control of automation, which is a good thing. Here’s why/how from the last negotiations: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/dominion-over-the-machines/
@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
@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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@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.
@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
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialThis group "The Library of Babel" is confronting the invasion of #genAI into everything we do, seems interesting:
"a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression. "
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialWith all the automation and digitization here in China, daily life doesn't feel impersonal. They still have people available for everything. Every metro station had staff for the security checks, ticket counters, cleaning, safe guards etc. So if you get stuck there is always a human in reach you can ask instead of fumbling for quirky apps on your phone.
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaAn old SSD, an 80mm fan I had lying around, a Raspberry Pi 4, and a 3D-printed case make up the new (and likely temporary) home for Home Assistant.
For now, I have modest plans for this setup, but once I get the hang of it, I might need to upgrade the hardware if I run out of resources to add new self-hosted home automation devices.
#selfhosted
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialDeveloping infra automation is a ton of fun!
Especially once you eradicated bugs and can do rollouts. 🥳
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA report on local flexibility markets commissioned by the European Commission and carried out by the Belgian energy research centre VITO has outlined the key features of success: standardisation, automation, aggregation, transparency, markets
https://op.europa.eu/e…
@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:
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@adamhotep@infosec.exchangeOkay, this Kagi translation tool is pretty entertaining (and an absolute gem as a guerilla marketing tactic, by which I mean it be a fine way to plunder more business, me hearty!)
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn speak
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGovAI and Brookings: many of the people most at risk if AI transforms work are also the best placed to find new jobs, as researchers disagree over AI's impact (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/jobs-mo…
@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.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzOn the night of February 5, 2026, the #Rubin team submitted a large batch of approximately 20,000 #asteroid candidate discoveries to the #MinorPlanetCenter, corresponding to roughly 246,000 individual observations: https://minorplanetcenter.net/media/newsletters/MPC_Newsletter_Feb2026.pdf - the "MPC successfully processed the entire submission. This unusually large batch provided a valuable end-to end stress test of our pipeline and allowed us to identify a few bottlenecks and areas where performance and automation can be improved."
@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…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioLet's try the #macOS Tahoe Shortcuts automation for folder automation.
The attempt failed sooner than even the most pessimists of us would've thought. The error? "The folder exceed the maximum allowed size" WHAT????
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-codex-desktop-update/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Automation
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://bandcampcomp.bandcamp.com/track/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-automation-demo
@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…
@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…
@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.pageAutomating Computational Chemistry Workflows via OpenClaw and Domain-Specific Skills
Mingwei Ding, Chen Huang, Yibo Hu, Yifan Li, Zitian Lu, Xingtai Yu, Duo Zhang, Wenxi Zhai, Tong Zhu, Qiangqiang Gu, Jinzhe Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25522 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25522 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25522
arXiv:2603.25522v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automating multistep computational chemistry tasks remains challenging because reasoning, workflow specification, software execution, and high-performance computing (HPC) execution are often tightly coupled. We demonstrate a decoupled agent-skill design for computational chemistry automation leveraging OpenClaw. Specifically, OpenClaw provides centralized control and supervision; schema-defined planning skills translate scientific goals into executable task specifications; domain skills encapsulate specific computational chemistry procedures; and DPDispatcher manages job execution across heterogeneous HPC environments. In a molecular dynamics (MD) case study of methane oxidation, the system completed cross-tool execution, bounded recovery from runtime failures, and reaction network extraction, illustrating a scalable and maintainable approach to multistep computational chemistry automation.
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@geant@mstdn.socialWhat new skills can you learn in the GÉANT Network eAcademy?
As #Research & #Education networks evolve, so do the skills needed to design, operate and secure them.
From automation and AI to quantum technologies and Time & Frequency, the landscape is moving fast.
And you can …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEnterprise AI automation startup Standard Template Labs raised a $49M seed co-led by Iconiq and CRV, a source says at a $300M post-money valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-1…
@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
@arXiv_econTH_bot@mastoxiv.pageBridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombinant Innovation
Emanuele Bazzichi, Massimo Riccaboni, Fulvio Castellacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02189 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.02189
arXiv:2604.02189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study how artificial intelligence (AI) affects firms' incentives to pursue incremental versus radical knowledge recombinations. We develop a model of recombinant innovation embedded in a Schumpeterian quality-ladder framework, in which innovation arises from recombining ideas across varying distances in a knowledge space. R&D consists of multiple tasks, a fraction of which can be performed by AI. AI facilitates access to distant knowledge domains, but at the same time it also increases the aggregate rate of creative destruction, shortening the monopoly duration that rewards radical innovations. Moreover, excessive reliance on AI may reduce the originality of research and lead to duplication of research efforts. We obtain three main results. First, higher AI productivity encourages more distant recombinations, if the direct facilitation effect is stronger than the indirect effect due to intensified competition from rivals. Second, the effect of increasing the share of AI-automated R&D tasks is non-monotonic: firms initially target more radical innovations, but beyond a threshold of human-AI complementarity, they shift the focus toward incremental innovations. Third, in the limiting case of full automation, the model predicts that optimal recombination distance collapses to zero, suggesting that fully AI-driven research would undermine the very knowledge creation that it seeks to accelerate.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches Codex plugins to standardize repeatable AI workflows, with 20 initial integrations such as Figma, Notion, Gmail, and Slack (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-codex-plugins-workflow-automation-upgrade/
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@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioa bit of #SelfPromo: I’m looking for new projects and would absolutely love to work with folks who are here in the Fediverse.
I provide #marketing services and use absolutely no AI in my work. My specialties include:
- #Email marketing (segmentation, flow / automation, campaign strategy, email design & copy, reporting)
- #Content marketing (ops or creating research reports, sales enablement, blogs, zines, SEO)
- #Research on audiences and markets (interviews, surveys, social listening, digging through public data & specialized publications)
- Per-hour #consulting or workshops to train your team
I've worked with companies like Hachette Book Group, Semrush, Maryville Consulting (part of Accenture), and plenty of startups. 
#FediHire #GetFediHired #freelance #openforwork
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2026/03/12/backops-series-a-supply-chain-operations
@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.socialRationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@Techmeme@techhub.socialReclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/04/reclaim-se…
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/an-ai-state-of-the-union
…
@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.socialBlock's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees, citing AI work automation, adds to growing angst among white-collar workers over AI's potential for job disruption (Chip Cutter/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-week-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/x…
@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.socialTel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjxbyqisze
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