@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Schweizer Lehrplan für nachhaltige Software:
Angesichts immer neuer Milliardeninvestitionen in KI-Rechenzentren wird der Ruf nach dem ökologischen Betrieb von IT-Systemen laut. Vier Schweizer Firmen spannen dafür zusammen.»
Das ist doch nun ein fortschrittliches Fortgehen für qualitative so wie ökologische Software.
😃
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotAs I emerge uncertainly from another sustained period of #madness, I realise (again) that I largely use the #PostScarcitySoftware project as self-prescribed anti-suicide therapy. It's sufficiently hard that it has my foggy brain working at full stretch, and sufficiently huge that there&…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSona, which uses AI to help companies with scheduling, HR, payroll, and other workflows, raised a $45M Series B led by N47, bringing its total funding to $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/…
@frankel@mastodon.top#SpringBoot Done Right: Lessons From a 400-Module Codebase
https://medium.com/all-things-software/spring-boot-done-right-lessons-fro…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Steady #Klimacrew
Wie lässt sich das Wachstum von #Feldfrüchten vorhersagen, ohne sie überhaupt anzubauen?
Ein KI-Modell aus
@cdarwin@c.imA suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool
to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised.
On Monday, a hacker pushed malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript library called Axios,
which developers rely on to allow their software to connect to the internet.
The affected library was hosted on npm, a software repository that stores code for open source projects…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialHackers associated with North Korea have compromised Axios, a widely used JavaScript library.
Axios is published and maintained on npm, the default package registry for JavaScript and Node.js projects. It is used to send requests between applications and web services and is one of the world’s most widely used libraries, with more than 100 million downloads a week.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere’s a lot of software out there where either (1) the users are captive users, or (2) actual outcomes don’t matter, and the important thing is to check the box, to have officially pretended to build the thing.
That’s the sort of software where development costs are especially painful for the MBAs, and where pushing the frontiers of the “fast build, low quality” quadrant for may be a killer market — even if it’s just fast and not so cheap.
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@cdamian@rls.socialWTF
"California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup" | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenClaw launches an official China mirror, with ByteDance providing the servers to host the Chinese-language service, as OpenClaw explodes in the country (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedan…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialI knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of legalism. At the same time, copyright law itself has been extended to be near-immortal copyrights rather than brief monopolies to spur creation by enabling profit from creating works.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linux-Distribution CachyOS mit neuer Software-Verwaltung
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com(I suspect the crowd on the fediverse will skew towards “yeah duh” on what I’m about to say - But I think there’s still value in saying it out loud)
As a Very Serious Enterprise Software Consultant I’m quite used to the lead time for running software to be Quite Long, for various Reasons.
So tonight for a change, I fired up my computer, opened up a new file with nano (Sorry vi vs. emarcs warriors) and just like… typed some python?
@shriramk@mastodon.socialMy evolving relationship with coding.
@benb@osintua.euCanadian AI software could flip Russia's disinformation war on Europe: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/canadian-ai-software-could-flip.html
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaIt feels obvious that llm's have no place in free and open source software. Apparently it isn't, at least not to everyone. I recently became interested in exploring the scope of the problem after finding out that both Vim and Neovim not only don't have policies banning llm contribution, but already contain fairly significant amounts of llm generated code.
@macandi@social.heise.deApples Zulieferer: So verhindert der Konzern Software-Leaks
Trotz Tausender Mitarbeiter bei Apples Zulieferern in China sickert selten Software nach außen. Ein umfassendes Sicherheitskonzept macht dies möglich.
h…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf you’re using LLMs to help you with a specific thing when doing your job, they’re not doing the job for you.
Saying “an LLM is a software engineer” is like saying a hammer is an architect.
Just a complete categorical error.
If they actually fully replace you in your job, then you’re probably not doing your job; unless your job was to come up with plausible sequences of words not based on knowledge, skills or experience.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgDKK 60 million on Microsoft and Google software licences *every year* paid Danish state schools. And imagine how much government IT is paying on top.
It's time to start calling it the #MicrosoftTax
HT @…
https://ing.dk/artikel/her-er-regnestykket-saa-meget-koster-det-smide-google-og-microsoft-ud-af-folkeskolen
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dejung: JUNG and javax class dependencies (2012)
A network of software class dependency within the JUNG 2.0.1 and javax 1.6.0.7 library namespaces edu.uci.ics.jung and java/javax. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6120 nodes and 138706 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
@joxean@mastodon.socialI wish profesional software instruments, like Kontakt or Viena Ensemble Pro, supported Linux. Maybe in the future. Hopefully.
@crell@phpc.socialMoving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.
But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.
#LLM
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialProfessional work related account on an IT topic instance or selfhosting (and then perils of the software choice).
@hynek@mastodon.social@… @… and given how overall software quality managed to further deteriorate over the past ~6 months – from an already very low baseline – I don't think my preciousness is the problem here.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeEarlier this year, cyber stocks got wrongly hammered due to all the hoopla around AI.
Now they're gaining ground due to the hoopla around AI.
Goldman Sachs Analyst Says Cybersecurity Stocks Are Outpacing Broader Software Sector— 'Set A Good Bar'
…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaWhat well known software devs have aura farming pics ima build a collection
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to @kubikpixel@chaos.socialOne of the most popular JavaScript packages on earth Axios has been compromised
The Axios NPM package has been compromised and the maintainer of the project has been locked out of their account. This will go down in history as one of the most successful software supply chain attacks ever
💥 https://opensourcemal…
@vrandecic@mas.toAnthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code, their main tool for software development. Anthropic stated that Claude Code was written by Claude. Which means its code is in the public domain, there is no IP protection for it. IIUC, I'm not a lawyer.
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAnybody know if Jenkins CI allows you to mark a specific job as dependent on a shared resource that conflicts with specific other jobs?
Like jobs A, B, and C can all run whenever, but D and E use the same external foobar (software license, piece of hardware, whatever) and can't execute concurrently
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social"The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply."
😂
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availabili…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linux-Distribution CachyOS mit neuer Software-Verwaltung
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgMaybe one of the more surprising things about the current live coding waves is how queer-lead it has become. I wouldn't have said it was ever particularly masculine/macho, but live coding was very cis male-dominated and hetronormative in the early days. Now as far as I know all the people blowing up on tiktok and instagram are LGBQT, and the most active live coding software and community platforms for music and visuals include LGBQT people leading core development (I say leadership here …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI guess it was a good idea to hold out just a bit longer and to not update to iPadOS 26…
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/01/patch-to-protect-ios-18-holdouts-from-darksword-is-out
@solawi@social.tchncs.deLetzten Herbst fand ein Hackathon statt, mit dem Ziel, eine Software zu entwickeln, die Menschen in der Solidarischen Landwirtschaft (#Solawi) hilft, möglichst einfach Beitragsrunden für ihre Mitglieder zu organisieren.
Herausforderung: Es gib vier verschiedene Typen von Beitragsrunden (auch "Bieterunden" genannt).
Es geht dabei um eine Methode, sämtliche Kosten eines Betrie…
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialJetzt beginnt die Vorstellung der von Reiche zurückgehaltenen Studie "Stärkung der regionalen Wertschöpfung durch Erneuerbare Energien"
mit dem Studienautor Dr. Steven Salecki, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Projektkoordinator am Institut für Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW).
https://
@felwert@fedihum.orgRE: https://toot.community/@blabberlicious/116334085279192956
Very thoughtful, nuanced read, and one that reflects my own stance and experience with GenAI coding tools. I’m not a professional software developer, but I feel I need to understand these …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years (Ben Shimkus/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-ceo-amazon-ai-coding-jobs-in…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgWow #MicrosoftTeams web version somehow manages to completely bypass my audio settings. It'll just blare its sound out the display speakers, impossible to use my headphones. Great peace of software. /s
@sean@scoat.esI spend a lot of effort on noise reduction. Turning off alerts, reducing the size of (especially redundant) messages I don't really need to see—that kind of stuff.
It's REALLY disruptive when software I use decides to get rid of those filters. Like not even just turning the noise back on, but fully removing my ability to even filter things.
I regularly mourn the wonderful period of time when software worked for us. (This *is* open source, but maintaining a fork is more wo…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚡ Fast rubbish is still rubbish — speed does not replace quality
📦 Software is a liability, a product is an asset
🏰 Moats are more expensive — competitive advantages can be copied faster than ever
🤝 Build for agents — APIs & interfaces must be designed agent-first
⚠️ Anticipate modes of failure — trusting models entirely is a recipe for disaster
@sperbsen@discuss.systemsRE: https://discuss.systems/@activegroupgmbh/116000777155345601
Looking forward to yet another OOP talk. I'll talk about something the software development/architecture community seems to have lost, namely leveraging powerful data/object models…
@anildash@me.dmOne of the things that's most frustrating about the hype cycle around OpenClaw is that so much of what people are excited about is just... software? You can automate doing lots of cool stuff with your inbox with deterministic software that's been around for decades, and it won't delete your inbox! And much of it is easier to install than OpenClaw is!
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIf you are interested in trying to see the Orion spacecraft, review this page software https://www.gano.name/shawn/artemis2/ and check out this video https://youtu…
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza
@janneke@todon.nl @inthehands@hachyderm.ioI can easily imagine scenarios where huge swaths of guts-of-the-business software increase their resource needs in production by an order of magnitude, •and• where businesses are perfectly happy to pay that cost.
That’s a story with horrifying environmental costs.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioNone of the "code generation" stuff is new by the way.
The tech industry has tried to speed up coding and increase software output for the last 3 to 4 decades, by various means; e.g. Rapid Application Development, Expert Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, thousands of different frameworks all the way to trying to off-shore development and exploit third-world labor.
The problem with this is: there is no software scarcity. Pretending that "we can't make software fast enough" is a red herring to hide the fact that making (good) software is 90% painstaking research, design, planning, marketing and talking to and supporting customers.
And 10% writing the actual code—the C-suite is doing ye olde "trying to find a technical solution to a social problem".
@frankel@mastodon.top @cyrevolt@mastodon.socialFlatpak keeps complaining about dependencies, so software vendors adjust their bundling strategies...
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/12893
I am not sure I got the selling point of Flatpak at this point. Wasn't the point to get rid of the dependency…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialRE: https://social.coop/@eloquence/116297123919323315
Absolutely this.
MiniMax M2.7 and GLM-5.1 are incredibly capable.
And I think _tooling_ (that is: traditional, deterministic as can be software) to guide and give structure to the probabilistic problem-solving is actually incredibly effective. And better, in terms of energy, very very cheap. You can throw 500 billion more parameters and 2 TB of RAM and many megawatts at things to make them better... or you can throw tools to shape things at them.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… Software. The worst.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desoftware_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 799 nodes and 7895 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social#AI coding tools have shown that you can't iterate from bad software to good software.
Not that it is *physically* impossible, but that the context of the work prevents it. Instead of refining products with more feedback loops, management demands more new feature releases.
But no amount of "MVPs" add up to a mature product. No amount of bad code adds up to good code.
…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPassing thought on the Claude code leak, and how messy and wasteful the code apparently is (as many of us suspected):
There’s been a lot of focus on the energy & environmental costs of running LLMs. There are also energy & environmental costs to deploying LLM-generated code.
Similarly, there’s a lot of focus on the kickbacks cloud vendors who fund AI get from LLMs renting their servers. There may be a similar kickback from computationally inefficient LLM-generated software renting their servers.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialRevel, founded by ex-SpaceX Starship software lead Scott Morton to replace legacy systems that test complex hardware like rockets, raised $150M led by Index (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/business/dealb…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imThe government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures.
Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal).
The bill states, among other factors, that "An operating system provider shall do all of the following:"
"(1) Provide an accessib…
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaI've played around with NetBSD over the years. Never tried to use it as a daily driver though. In light of the fact they're just about the only viable OS that's taken a string stance against AI contribution, that might be about to change.
There are issues of course. Some software is massively outdated in Pkgsrc (the NetBSD packaging system) or just plain non-existent. But 10.0 feels quite a bit snappier than earlier versions. I could get to like it I think.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… On I’m aware. But I don’t think that makes it any less necessary. If society is going to keep depending on software for even the most basic functions, sooner or later I hope some force ensures we stop just playing “Move fast and break things”.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMy main gripe with “AI coding” is that people present it in highly emotional terms as a fait accompli that will “change everything” instead of it being just another tool (that is one of many) to make software.
Like I saw a SERIOUS post today (not on here) from a tech guy I previously respected that was basically like a 90s infomercial with black and white video of working on a computer (labeled “without AI”) and then over-saturated footage of chilling in the pool or whatever shit (labeled “with AI”).
Not to mention there’s a constant barrage of “enjoy being poor” type bullshit.
This is abusive behavior; it’s emotional manipulation and gaslighting.
It’s cringe, as the kids would say.
I think the underlying LLM technology has use cases that are genuinely useful, for example when making explorative software prototypes, both for backend and frontend stuff.
But it's like a hammer. Useful for nails, useless for anything else.
And you got to ask where the hammer is coming from. Was it made with stolen metal? Forged by exploitative labor? Locked away in a data center so you can only rent the hammer by the hour from some business trying to do a bait and switch?
I'm hoping that the AI landlord industry dies eventually (signs point to this as they won't be able to fulfill the obligations to their investors) and people use locally-run stuff, ethically with open source models (without stolen stuff) and without ridiculous environmental impact in the future.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Softwareentwicklung — Software für Agenten bauen? So ein Quatsch!
KI-Agenten erledigen mehr Arbeit in Software. Doch wer nur für sie entwickelt, statt für Menschen, baut vor allem eines: fragile Blackboxen.»
Leider sind sehr viele Verantwortliche naiv leichtgläubig so wie menschenfeindlich und dies sogar im guten Gewissen, da sie ja anscheinend fortschrittlich seien.
🤨
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSoftware stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise apps, including Slack, Intuit, Docusign, and FactSet (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/software-stocks-anthropic-ai.html
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @netzschleuder@social.skewed.desoftware_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 838 nodes and 3088 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/…
@frankel@mastodon.topThe Software Essays that Shaped Me
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/software-essays-that-shaped-me/
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comI tell ya what, it suddenly makes it sound a lot less urgent to replace my M1 Mac mini with an M5 one when you see the tests run in 0.000 seconds.
I mean, what could you possibly need more processor for? Maybe you just need *less* software.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTreeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/31/treeline-it-investing-peter-doyle-andrees…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deXiaomi öffnet vier Topmodelle für Android-17-Testphase
Xiaomi bietet eine Android-17-Testversion für vier Topmodelle an. Die Software richtet sich an Entwickler und erfordert eine globale ROM-Version.
https://www.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialOpen source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.
🧑💻
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAll other (valid and invalid) arguments aside—the worst thing about "AI for coding" is that no one ever even mentions how this is better for the people who end up using the software produced.
(Spoiler: It isn't.)
No, what it's used for is product managers offloading product design decisions on programmers, because "with AI they can now just churn out features" and "we'll keep what sticks". (The first feature they're forced to churn out is to add useless LLM-based crap to applications. You know the feature: the one that all power-users of the software desperately go to Reddit for in an exercise of futility trying to find out how to permanently turn it off.)
It's a self-feeding feature creep and software bloat moloch—eating programmers and users.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/cisa-orders-federal-agencies-to-patch-cpanel-bug
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desoftware_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 6126 nodes and 138706 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-Update kompakt: OpenAI, Software-Nutzung, Apple, Teslas FSD
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz (Mike Stone/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-navy…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia partners with Cisco, Nokia, and others to build 6G networks based on open, software-defined AI radio access networking (AI-RAN) architecture (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/01/ahead-mwc-barcelona…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116143024823038390
Software development these days really reminds me of what large political parties do—no shred of thinking about the whole, not even a little bit of conviction, just churning out mid ever more milquetoast "features" designed to eek out a little more compliance.
Moral stances and ethics be damned.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/alphabet-owned-r…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEuropean software companies, including SAP, Capgemini, Nemetschek, Hexagon, and Dassault, report better-than-expected earnings despite AI fears and the Iran war (Chloe Meley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@heiseonline@social.heise.deZahlungsanbieter Nexi kündigt Free Software Foundation Europe
Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) arbeitet mit Spenden durch Unterstützer. Der Zahlungsanbieter Nexi hat nun gekündigt.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 (Julia Hornstein/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-coder-raises-90…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-tr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of four large private-credit funds finds an average of ~25% software share exposure vs. ~19% disclosed, amid investor concerns about software stocks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/priv
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that has reportedly affected 30,000 staff worldwide (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCents, which makes operating and payments software for laundromats, raised a $110M Series C, following a $40M Series B in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/03/26/laundromat-software-cents-tender-offer
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLetter AI, whose sales software provides personalized, deal-specific guidance, raised a $40M Series B, four months after a $10.6M Series A (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/letter-ai-pitch-deck-raises-sales-software-2026-2…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a $72M Series C, following a $23M Series B in 2025 (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/04/23/cloudsm…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B queries per month (Macy Meyer/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-20-years…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAidoc, which provides AI medical imaging software to flag incidental findings on CT scans and X-rays, raised a $150M Series E, taking its total funding to $520M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/exclusive-clinical-ai-provide…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/in-defense-of-indias-it-industry
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSoftware stocks in the State Street ETF lost $1.6T in combined market cap in 2026 due to AI fears; Microsoft, AppLovin, Intuit, and Salesforce each lost $50B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/th…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its "open infrastructure" from infotainment to non-safety internal systems (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/899034/google-android-aut…
