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Christopher Nolan on AI: “I think AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-calls-ai-an-obvious-trojan-horse/

‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’ | TechCrunch
"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Euro-Office fordert Collabora heraus

Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Euro-Office fordert Collabora heraus
Nextcloud erweitert seine Kollaborationsplattform: Euro-Office als MS-Office-Alternative, neue Governance-Funktionen für Behörden und ein deutlich mehr KI.

@… Five and a half hours of Opus 4.8 and I'm now looking at no errors whatsoever.
Honestly still unsure and uneasy about using LLM's for this, but it's hard to deny the results. This would have taken me a good week or two to do. Maybe even 3 or 4. But the real question now is: How much did it fuck up?

NPR hires Nadine Zylstra, who was most recently Pinterest's global head of programming and original content, as chief content officer, starting in July (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/npr-nadine-zylstra-chief-content-office…

NPR Hires Nadine Zylstra as Chief Content Officer
Nadine Zylstra, a media exec who's worked at YouTube, Pinterest and Sesame Workshop, is taking the helm of NPR's content operations.

To make it easier esp. for junior folks (students, postdocs, jr faculty) to talk to me, I'm trying a new thing: open office hours at conferences! Come find me at PLDI 2026, using the public calendar linked to the page below. Please feel free to reshare!
https://cs.brown.edu/people/sk/Contact

Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/pinterest-pins-q1-earnings-report-2026.html…

Pinterest surges 17% after earnings beat as company posts strong guidance
Pinterest cut nearly 15% of the company's workforce and reduced office space in January as it pushes more resources into AI.

Nolan has already been established as the rare director who can get people to buy a ticket on the strength of his name. As the follow-up to “Oppenheimer,” a somber period piece about the father of the atomic bomb, “The Odyssey” is further proof that Nolan can get butts in seats no matter the genre. Who else could turn a sword-and-sandal adventure that’s R-rated, nearly three hours long and isn’t a sequel into populist fare?
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/odyssey-box-office-christopher-nolan-1236816035/

happy customer endorsement. a few months ago i bought an air quality monitor from https://nettigo.pl (better wifi reception, resistant to humidity changes) but it stopped working a few days ago, i mailed Witold - and he responded immediately at 21:00 or so in the evening - past office hours - within a few mails back & …

Beginning next week, most Australians will get free electricity for three hours every afternoon.
That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries.
As the cost of clean energy keeps plummeting, it is more and more obvious how much money we waste, and how much financial risk we incur, by staying with fossil fuel.

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Sources: Revolut told new hires they'll have to work in office at least three days a week from next year, retreating from its long-held remote-first approach (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f0e12920-bac5-4f5b-aad1-79e350742d84