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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-21 17:44:48

It's been a week since I watched this episode, and I still giggle at this scene about once per day.
[I read a lot of Mad Magazine in my youth.]

A superhero in a silly costume (named Peacemaker, from the TV show by the same name) stands in front of what looks to be a 4th grade classroom filled with a dozen kid sitting at typical public school desks. He has on a shiny helmet, and is very strong looking; the character is played by ex-wrestler John Cena. Peacemaker is asking the kids, "Any more questions?"
Same scene, but basically the next frame; about a third of the kids in the classroom have their arms raised up.
Same scene. This time Peacemaker has his arm out, pointing at one of the kids in the front row with her hand up. He's saying "Yeah, uh, gender-swapped Alfred E. Neuman."
Zoomed in on one of the kids in the classroom with her her raised up that Peacemaker had just called on. She's got red hair with bangs, freckles, a red shirt with a lightning bolt logo (I think DC's The Flash?), and a smile on her face showing a gap in her two front teeth. The subtitle still shows "Yeah, uh.. gender-swapped Alfred E Neuman."
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-23 15:44:46

The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations,
represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil.
Investigators warn the system could have blacked out cellular service in a city that relies on it not only for daily life but for emergency response and counterterrorism.
Coming as foreign leaders filled midtown hotels and motorcades clogged Manhattan,

Secret Service dismantles threat around UN capable of crippling NYC cell service
The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York. Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls. The cache included over 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards. It was located within 35 miles of the United Nations. The network could have blacked out cellular service, especially during the United Nations General Assembly. Officials have not uncovered a direct plot against the assembly. Forensic analysis is ongoing, …

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-10-22 11:18:46

One screenshot, two memes.
Variant 1:
Polish people: going crazy about tickets for 1 PLN.
Me, raised in thriftiness characteristic of Poznań area: "I don't know, 1 PLN is still some money."
Variant 2:
Carbrains: "trains are expensive!"
Me: "are they now? This sounds like a pretty good deal to me."
#rail #InterCity

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-09-23 11:39:41

“The anonymous communications network, which included more than 100K SIM cards & 300 servers, could interfere with emergency response services and could be used to conduct encrypted communication.”
Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.

Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.
The Secret Service discovered more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, which could disable cellular towers or be used to conduct surveillance.

@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…
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems
2025-11-21 23:03:57

It's frustrating when using `leaks` to examine a leaking process, and it causes `leaks` to leak harder than the originally-leaking process did...

@arXiv_csDC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-23 07:58:50

ShadowServe: Interference-Free KV Cache Fetching for Distributed Prefix Caching
Xingyu Xiang, Raj Joshi, Yuhan Liu, Jiayi Yao, Chenxingyu Zhao, Junchen Jiang, Yang Zhou, Eddie Kohler, Minlan Yu
arxiv.org/abs/2509.16857

ShadowServe: Interference-Free KV Cache Fetching for Distributed Prefix Caching
Distributed prefix caching accelerates long-context LLM serving by reusing KV cache entries for common context prefixes. However, KV cache fetches can become a bottleneck when network bandwidth is limited. Compression mitigates the bandwidth issue, but can degrade overall performance when decompression interferes with model computation. We present ShadowServe, the first SmartNIC-accelerated, interference-free prefix caching system for LLM serving. ShadowServe separates a control plane on the …

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-10-21 17:22:31

This widely-linked story is, I think, much ado about nothing. Anyone who's seen the inside of an Amazon warehouse immediately thinks “Shouldn’t robots be doing this?” and that includes every Amazon biz and engineering leader, starting like 25 years ago. There is no doubt that the whole warehouse sector would love to replace humans with robots. It’s hard. So what’s new? Is it possible LLM fairy dust will solve the problem? Unconvinced.

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
Amazon is leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers, according to leaked documents.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-23 15:44:47

While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly,
the U.S. Secret Service quietly dismantled a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area
— a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.
The cache,
made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles …

Secret Service dismantles threat around UN capable of crippling NYC cell service
The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York. Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls. The cache included over 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards. It was located within 35 miles of the United Nations. The network could have blacked out cellular service, especially during the United Nations General Assembly. Officials have not uncovered a direct plot against the assembly. Forensic analysis is ongoing, …

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-21 21:53:49

Here’s how I see it: we need the world but the world does not need Google. mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 17:40:39

Italy's competition watchdog fines Apple €98.6M, saying the company's ATT rules are "disproportionate" and "harmful" to app developers and advertisers (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
macrumors.com/2025/12/22/italy

Apple Hit With Supersized Fine in Italy Over an iPhone Privacy Feature
Italy's Competition Authority (AGCM) has imposed a €98.6 million ($116 million) fine on Apple over its App Tracking Transparency feature. ...

@egallager@social.treehouse.systems
2025-10-21 19:12:04

Something happened today at the grocery store that hasn't happened to me since before the pandemic: I ran out of SNAP funds on my EBT card. This is entirely unrelated to the possibility that SNAP payments might not go out next month due to the shutdown, btw; this particular payment failure is entirely from my balance getting run down by the cuts Trump already did earlier:

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-21 22:00:57

I regret to inform you all that I went back in time intending to only fix one little thing, but I couldn't help myself and I messed with some other things too. Now I've changed the present to be all wrong; not only do you have to deal with that Berenstain Bears nonsense, but you also now have to deal with Trump and Mamdani being besties. I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm really not - it was totally worth it*.
* My lawyers have advised me not to say anything further.

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration?” TRUMP: “I would. I really would.”

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-21 21:50:55

The thing is, he knows he's a fascist (and a racist, and a criminal, and and and..). It's the fucking media that tiptoes around these labels.
"Trump's latest actions has some questioning free speech issues.." Go fuck yourself, I hope your newspaper or tv channel goes out of business.

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?” TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.” ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”

@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…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-12-21 16:07:42

Microwave oven: a sophisticated device designed to be able to efficiently heat plates while keeping the food cold. Other functions include creating lightning and exploding eggs.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-21 17:07:39

With friends like Mozilla…
#AI

Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of  most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new way

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 17:10:48

Source: Erebor, a digital bank co-founded by Palmer Luckey, raised $350M led by Lux Capital at a $4.35B post-money valuation; it secured FDIC approval last week (Axios)
axios.com/2025/12/22/palmer-lu

Scoop: Palmer Luckey's digital bank valued at over $4 billion
Investor excitement the stablecoin banking startup is reaching AI levels.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-22 00:59:26

ICE is going to blow themselves up. toot.community/@thezenlady/115

The Zen Lady (@thezenlady@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components! Guided missile warheads! 😱 https://bsky.app/profile/senchrislarson.bsky.social/post/3m3pl3257322m

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-21 20:25:00

I very much enjoyed her "I hope you fucking burn in hell!"
#FuckICE…

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@longtimehistory.bsky.social)
ICE points gun at pregnant mother—a U.S. citizen with her son in the back seat. "Are you gonna shoot a pregnant woman?" she cries. "You just put a gun on me!" "Then he had the balls to say, 'It’s your fault I did that.'" Video clearly shows her just driving down public street in Berwyn, Illinois.

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-09-23 05:44:59

“An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said … four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship”: vancouver.citynews.ca/2025…

Israeli drone strike kills 5, including 3 children, in southern Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship. Two others were wounded, including the mother in the family. Officials at the U.S. […]

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-12-23 07:41:39

Typical #rail line reactivation in Poland:
1. For many years, reactivation is debated, meetings are held, studies are done — and nothing happens.
2. Suddenly funding appears, and preparations start.
3. Just before the work starts, some of the stakeholders start debating a New Better Route.
4. Mutual mudslinging starts, as some of the counties that already paid for the project, discover that the New Better Route omits them.
5. In the meantime, the railroad company proceeds with the original plan and doesn't care.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-21 16:44:13

I wouldn’t put it past these muppets to adopt Roman numerals to own the libs.
newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdan

Fact Check: Is Mamdani Introducing Arabic Numerals To New York Schools?
Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.

@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.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-22 01:48:15

Testing, with the help of a funnel, the theory that cats are actually a liquid. Still having trouble getting his butt through the hole. #CatsOfMastodon

A teenager holding a largish young tabby cat. The cat is looking at the camera. On the cat's butt is a large white plastic funnel. The cats tail is going through the hole in the funnel.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-22 00:05:18

I like when the #NYPost says the quiet part out loud. See, ending illegal labor practices and paying workers a living wage is "anti-capitalist." Being in favor of #capitalism means being happy crushing your workers and driving them into poverty.
If only they said that more…

Continuing his anti-capitalist message, Mamdani tweeted: “making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-12-22 21:22:45

New verb! “Enslopenize” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/r

Ready or Not, Here They Come — Notes From the AI Force-Feed ….
I just got a new iPhone. I didn’t need a newer version....

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-12-23 06:48:38

Well, I suppose someone had to say it: I'm really disappointed that #PyPI / #PSF went as far as to use dark patterns in the donation banner.
#Python

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-22 18:01:06

🚨 Help Evacuate Joy to Milan 🚨
Folks, I need your help once again. This time, it’s for our very own @…
As you know, Joy has been suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and still helping others through her work with Gaza Verified. Now she has a chance at freedom as she’s been accepted for a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Milan and w…

Help Joy Evacuate and Study in Europe
My name is Caitlin Townsend. I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries working together to help Joy (Farah), a 22-year-old Palestinian writer and student of English literature, evacuate from Gaza and continue her education in Europe.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 21:10:40

Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/nv

Nvidia Restructures Cloud Team After Retreating From AWS Competition
More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service that could rival Amazon Web Services, he has backed away from competing with such firms and last week reorganized his company’s cloud team, according to several people with knowledge of the ...

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-12-22 16:00:18

What do you get if you combine a glass half-full and an imaginary glass half-empty?

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-22 15:29:10

Folks, Ruaa is currently suffering from COVID and her family’s tent was buried under sand after a tent just 100m away from theirs was destroyed in Israel’s ongoing genocide.
Despite all that she spoke with us briefly today for Gaza Verified.
Please help her and her family if you can and please share this so others might also.
• Her fundraiser:

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety
I'm helping my friend, Ruaa from gaza, raise funds to help her family survive. 

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 20:10:42

Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty, died Sunday at 55 in a single-car crash in Southern California (NBC Los Angeles)
nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v

Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty,' killed in Ferrari crash
Vince Zampella, former CEO of the studio behind the wildly successful Call of Duty franchise, was killed in a Ferrari crash in the LA mountains.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-11-23 07:27:19

Sometimes I reminisce of the times past. I go all the way to my youth, back when I believed that there are more important things in life than the railways.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-09-23 12:56:07

Please do not use PayPal.
Especially for fundraisers.
(e.g., on Chuffed, for example, enable credit/debit cards as well as PayPal.)
Unless someone has a PayPal account, PayPal limits how much they can send to $1,000 a day.
After making two donations of that amount to different accounts, it will now no longer allow me to make any transfers at all on our card.
This is really fucking us over with distributing the Gaza Verified donations to one of our families so th…

Gaza Verified
Emergency appeal to get the Gaza Verified families stuck in the danger zone in the North to relative safety in the South.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 19:20:43

OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/chat

ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped | TechCrunch
The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-11-23 06:10:24

You know that the #nightmare was pretty solid when your brain came up with a creative, consistent bunch of swore words.
Yep, I dreamt that my family woke me up in the middle of the night, because they forgot to tell me that we need to get up early the previous day. And the worst part of it, it had something to do with these accursed upcoming xmas.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-09-23 10:27:27

To fediverse admins:
If you see an attempt to create a copy of a Gaza Verified member’s account on your server, without having heard from me first, please suspend it and get in touch with me if you can.
I have asked the Gaza Verified members not to migrate their accounts without telling me first so I can reach out to one of our friendly server admins (

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-23 01:05:53

Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (Colin Campbell/Axios)
axios.com/pro/supply-chain-dea

Warehouse industry tech firm Kargo raises $42M Series B
The sub-sector has become increasingly popular with investors.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-20 20:05:54

Whoa, fuck, that's incredible. Amtrak is great, but not cheap!
flipboard.com/@gothamist/gotha

Metro-North to extend service to Albany, competing with Amtrak service
The MTA plans to extend Metro-North Railroad service north to the Albany area, offering a once-a-day round trip between Grand Central Terminal and …

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-11-23 15:31:22

> 16th Diamhea Memorial Review Challenge
Guess how I misread that xD.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 23:45:44

OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an "LLM-based automated attacker" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/open

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch
OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-10-22 12:41:19

Today I've seen two men from the emergency gas service crouching near a box which emitted a loud hissing sound. Neither of them was smoking.
I guess this is the career that builds character.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-23 02:55:58

The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-

Pentagon taps Musk's xAI to boost sensitive government workflows, support military operations
Pentagon partners with Elon Musk's xAI to deploy Grok AI across military systems, giving 3 million personnel advanced AI tools by 2026 for sensitive tasks.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-10-22 10:44:14

I knew it's going to get warmer but I didn't expect that regular shoes will turn out unnecessary, and I will regret not having shorts on me.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-23 07:15:41

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/faa3d747-9a32-4

AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record
Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-10-22 04:07:30

When you notice that you could have departed an hour later, and arrive at the destination only 3 minutes later…
EDIT: Actually, I was looking at the next month's timetable. So I didn't miss the better connection for two weeks in a row after all.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-23 12:15:45

China's MiniMax releases M2.1, an upgrade to its open-source M2 model that it says has "significantly enhanced" coding capabilities in Rust, Java, and others (MiniMax)
minimax.io/news/minimax-m21

MiniMax M2.1: Significantly Enhanced Multi-Language Programming, Built for Real-World Complex Tasks - MiniMax News

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-10-23 12:31:49

> Gold card
Checks…
> Just plastic

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-23 11:30:43

Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/23/busines

China Delays Plans for Mass Production of Self-Driving Cars After Accident
After years of planning for cars that would let drivers take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, China’s regulators have become more cautious.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-10-23 15:18:12

Infantile
My new card's number ends in -69.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-23 10:56:15

The European Commission says Apple will bring AirPods-like pairing and iPhone notification access to third-party devices under the DMA in iOS 26.3 in 2026 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
macrumors.com/2025/12/22/ios-2

iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing to Third-Party Devices in EU Under DMA
The European Commission today praised the interoperability changes that Apple is introducing in iOS 26.3, once again crediting the Digital Markets...

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-09-23 06:07:34

Appreciate small things. Like not having to debug C .

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-23 10:01:12

How AI can work across scales, from individuals to organizations to economies, like steel and the steam engine before it, as AI arrives as "infinite minds" (Ivan Zhao/@ivanhzhao)
x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192

Ivan Zhao (@ivanhzhao) on X
Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-21 18:15:37

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Is Getting More Efficient at Running Its AI, Internal Financials Show
As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run ...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 01:45:33

Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
billboard.com/business/streami

Spotify Music Library Leaked Online by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released all of Spotify’s music. The breach includes 86 million audio files.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-21 23:40:34

A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
fortune.com/2025/12/21/shield-

Shield AI took its drones from the ‘Batcave’ to the battlefield. Now the $5.6 billion defense-tech startup’s new CEO says it’s at an inflection point
After eight months spent tweaking its surveillance drone in Ukraine, demand for Shield AI’s V-BAT is ramping up in Europe and Asia.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 05:40:35

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 04:50:34

Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after a blackout, and says most active trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/12/21/waymo-robo

Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after blackout chaos — Musk says Tesla car service unaffected
As power outages spread Saturday, videos shared on social media appeared to show multiple Waymo vehicles stalled in traffic in different parts of San Francisco.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 03:25:55

Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/19/technol<…

Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?
A.I. chatbots have been designed to behave in a humanlike way. Some experts think that’s a terrible idea.

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2025-12-22 09:50:47

Google's TPUs and Gemini are competitive but Nvidia's and OpenAI's first-mover advantage makes their lead seem durable, and Google faces the innovator's dilemma (SiliconANGLE)
siliconangle.com/2025/12/21/nv

Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI - SiliconANGLE
Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI - SiliconANGLE

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2025-12-22 09:10:35

A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more (The Chip Letter)
thechipletter.substack.com/p/t

TPU Mania
Is GPU vs TPU the CISC vs RISC contest of the modern era?

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2025-12-22 06:40:35

Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/20/it-f

'It felt so wrong': Colin Angle on iRobot, the FTC, and the Amazon deal that never was | TechCrunch
The iRobot founder opens up about the 18-month regulatory process that he says doomed the Roomba maker -- and what it means for American innovation.

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2025-12-22 13:10:34

Paramount says Larry Ellison "agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4B" for its WBD bid, after WBD's board raised concerns about the offer (Sara Salinas/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/12/22/wbd-bid-pa

Paramount guarantees Larry Ellison backing in amended WBD bid
Paramount notably did not increase its bid on Monday, reiterating that it believes the deal is superior to Netflix's.

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2025-12-22 13:01:18

Investigation: in 22 US states, Uber approves drivers with many types of convictions, such as violent felonies, that are over seven years old to keep costs low (Emily Steel/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/22/busines

Uber Cleared Violent Felons to Drive. Passengers Accused Them of Rape.
The ride-hailing giant’s background check process was intended to speed drivers onto its network while keeping costs down, internal documents show.

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2025-12-22 11:45:40

Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/5d8af345-d593-4

Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement
Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags

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2025-12-22 11:30:37

Sequoia, a16z, and other VC firms invested $1.2B into police and public safety tech startups over the past year, following the success of Palantir and others (Abram Brown/The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/a

Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Add to $1.2 Billion Funding Boom for Police Tech Startups
Over the past year, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and many of Silicon Valley’s other top venture capital firms have funneled at least $1.2 billion in funding to startups selling technology to city police departments and local public safety agencies. Those companies illustrate the technology industry’s growing enthusiasm for making software and hardware for the government and law

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2025-11-22 21:40:59

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
theverge.com/features/825207/s

The new silicon valley (literally)
The US wants to make its own chips again. Will it bring back manufacturing jobs? Or guzzle up too much water in the desert? Can the semiconductor industry avoid repeating the same mistakes it made in Silicon Valley?  

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2025-11-22 19:20:51

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same.
The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. There is too much spending, too much leverage, too many crazy deals, and too much competition from China for us not to see big bumps ahead.

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2025-11-23 02:40:52

A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju's founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju's US unit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/11/22/byju

Byju's founder to appeal U.S. court order to pay over $1B in bankruptcy case | TechCrunch
A U.S. bankruptcy court has ordered Byju's founder Byju Raveendran to pay over $1.07 billion in a case over missing company funds.

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2025-11-23 07:01:39

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper's)
harpers.org/archive/2025/12/ki

Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine

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2025-11-23 06:50:49

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

Exclusive: Bedrock Data raises $25M to secure enterprise AI
Greylock Partners led the Series A.

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2025-11-23 06:45:56

Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-sec

Deblock secures €30M Series A to expand on-chain banking in Europe
French crypto-banking startup Deblock has secured €30 million in Series A funding led by Speedinvest, alongside CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures, and Kraken Ventures also participated in the round. Deblock offers a fully on-chain banking solution in Europe that combines features of a traditional bank account with on-chain self-custody. By linking a euro current account with a personal, self-owned crypto wallet, the platform allows users t…

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2025-11-23 06:40:49

Israel-based Chargeflow, whose AI tech automates chargeback disputes for online merchants, raised a $25M Series A led by Viola Growth, and a $10M debt round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
calcalistech.com/ctechnews/art

Chargeflow raises $35 million to fight the surge in transaction denials
Fintech startup secures equity and debt funding as e-commerce fraud grows to $100B a year. 

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2025-11-23 06:35:49

Peek, which sells software for attractions and tour operators, raised a $70M Series D, taking total funding to $150M, and acquired Acme Ticketing and Connect&Go (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/20

Exclusive: Software maker Peek raises $70M, makes two buys
The company acquired Acme Ticketing and Connect&Go to bring ticketing, memberships and on-site operations all under one roof.

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2025-11-23 06:05:50

Arbiter, which is using AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed from multiple family offices at a $400M valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Business Insider)
businessinsider.com/health-sta

This former Eli Lilly exec just raised a $52 million seed round from family offices to build a new healthcare AI startup.
Thirty Madison's former president is launching her own healthcare AI startup without a drop of VC funding.

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2025-11-23 05:51:05

X starts rolling out About This Account globally, letting users see the country or region where an X account is based by tapping the signup date on the profile (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)
x.com/nikitabier/status/199233

Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) on X
In a couple hours, we'll be rolling out About This Account globally, allowing you to see the country or region where an account is based. This will be accessible by tapping the signup date on profiles. This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town

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2025-11-23 13:01:19

A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that "demonstrated a near-flawless ability" to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
404media.co/a-researcher-made-

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

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2025-11-23 15:50:37

X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)
thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

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2025-11-21 18:45:51

Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200 companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/goog

Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach | TechCrunch
Notorious hacking collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters takes credit for the breach that affected Salesforce customers’ data, and said it is planning another extortion campaign.

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2025-11-21 17:40:49

Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (Alex Heath/Sources)
sources.news/p/sierras-revenue

Sierra's revenue flex
ARR is the new AI startup recruiting pitch. Also: Harvey's Winston Weinberg this week on ACCESS.

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2025-11-21 23:55:59

Analyzing Gemini 3's model card and safety framework report: the model is excellent but the safety report withholds or makes it difficult to understand key info (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
thezvi.substack.com/p/gemini-3

Gemini 3: Model Card and Safety Framework Report
Gemini 3 Pro is an excellent model, sir.

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2025-11-21 22:40:59

Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to "reward hack" by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research (Anthropic)
anthropic.com/research/emergen

From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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2025-11-21 21:05:50

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/11/21/technol

The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.

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2025-11-22 00:36:07

Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/11/21/figure-ai-

Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'
A former engineer for Figure AI filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety.

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2025-11-22 07:10:56

Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

Exclusive: Thoma Bravo buys Java platform Azul
Azul battles Oracle in the Java marketplace.

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2025-11-22 05:45:51

Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland's sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/finl

Finland's NestAI lands €100M, partners with Nokia to build AI for defense applications | TechCrunch
Finnish startup NestAI said it has raised €100 million to build "Europe's leading physical AI lab."

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2025-11-22 05:41:02

Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
sherwood.news/tech/google-clos

Google closes at a record high
The internet giant has a lot going for it right now.

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2025-11-22 10:30:54

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)
restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-i

ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.

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2025-11-22 13:30:55

Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost "sold out" due to AI demand (Nikkei Asia)
asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Rampant AI demand throws the memory chip market into turmoil
Supply constraints spark warnings of price rises and launch delays for consumer electronics

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2025-11-21 16:55:49

Sources: Kalshi told investors that its trading volume grew six times in the last six months and it is on an annualized pace for $600M to $700M in net revenue (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/la

In Las Vegas, Kalshi Is King
For 15 years, Goldman Sachs’ private tech conference in Las Vegas has been the event for taking the pulse of startup dealmaking. Years ago, it was possible to run into founders such as Uber’s Travis Kalanick and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom raising money for their then-small startups. The ...

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2025-11-21 16:21:37

Sources: Meta plans to test an AI-powered personalized daily briefing, designed to compete with ChatGPT's Pulse, with some Facebook users in NYC and SF (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/technology/

Meta is building an AI-powered morning brief in push to compete with ChatGPT
Meta is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized, AI-powered briefing of information relevant to their daily lives.

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2025-10-22 19:31:06

Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/tind

Tinder will require new users in the US to verify their identity with a selfie  | TechCrunch
The facial verification feature, known as Face Check, requires new users to verify their identity by submitting a short video selfie.

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2025-10-22 19:11:05

Canada's financial crime watchdog fines crypto exchange Cryptomus a record ~$126M for infractions including failing to flag suspicious transactions (Canadian Press)
cbc.ca/news/business/cryptomus

Crypto exchange Cryptomus fined record $177M by Canada's financial crime watchdog | CBC News
A cryptocurrency exchange has been slapped with a fine of almost $177 million — the largest-ever penalty by Canada's financial intelligence agency — for infractions including failing to flag more than 1,000 transactions with suspected links to criminal activity.

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2025-10-22 18:25:59

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ti

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...

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2025-10-22 18:06:00

Apple removes controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store for failing to meet requirements around content moderation and user privacy (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/appl

Apple confirms it pulled controversial dating apps Tea & TeaOnHer from the App Store | TechCrunch
Apple has pulled the controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store over violations of its content moderation and privacy rules, following a flood of user complaints and reports of minors’ data being exposed

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2025-10-22 17:31:10

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technol

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

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2025-10-22 21:46:09

Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI and autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
theverge.com/podcast/803379/gm

Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay
GM CEO Mary Barra and new Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson discuss the company’s major AI, autonomy, and EV ambitions.

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2025-10-22 16:02:00

Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race (œrla Ryan/The Irish Times)
irishtimes.com/politics/2025/1…

Deepfake AI video depicting Catherine Connolly quitting presidential race removed by Meta
Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times

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2025-10-22 15:46:10

Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research (Cade Metz/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technol

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.