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"KI für Bürger": Mistral AI bezieht Stellung gegen Big Tech
Der französische KI-Hersteller Mistral will KI bürgerfreundlicher machen und sieht gleichzeitig Probleme beim Ansatz großer Tech-Konzerne.

Riding the rails

From a German lagerstätte, which means "hold my beer". https://tech.lgbt/@DelilahTech/114617249507331663

Texas Tech softball receives merch from Patrick Mahomes during WCWS https://www.espn.com/college-sports/softball/story/_/id/45454093/patrick-mahomes-texas-tech-red-raiders-softball-wcws-merchandis…

The Trump administration is warning states that they risk losing access to broadband funds if they set price caps on low-cost ISP plans (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-warns-states-don…

Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices
ISPs getting grants must offer “low-cost” plan, but they get to pick the price.

072 Перекличка
Десь тут Сенна вирішила перебудувати свій сайт. Не вперше (і, гадаю, не востаннє).
#comic #ТемнаНаука #переклади

Most #tech these days promises to help us get things done faster. That premise is sending humanity off a cliff these days.
What does tech that helps us slow down look like instead?

Universal Pictures has started adding a legal warning at the end credits of its films stating that their titles "may not be used to train AI" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Pictures to Big Tech: We’ll Sue If You Steal Our Movies For AI
The studio is getting more aggressive about protecting its films from companies pirating them.

There’s a crisis in tech product innovation. From when I got into tech when I was maybe 8 or 9 in the late 80s to around 2010 or so there seemed to be something new and innovative—sometimes even world-changing—out at least once a year.
Now my iPad Pro is 7 years old, and I have literally no idea why I would want to upgrade it.
I don't even know other than "faster but you probably won't notice it" what the current iPad Pro has over the one from 2018.
Fwiw 7 years is the span of time between these two Apple products:

Das größte Ziel von Amazon-Chef Jeff Bezos und X-Chef Elon Musk ist die Besiedlung des Weltalls durch eine Elite, die sie selbst aussuchen dürfen.
Dieses Radio-Feature geht der Frage nach, warum diese Milliardäre alles dafür tun, eine Dystopie Realität werden zu lassen.
Mein Eindruck ist, dass sie beim Science-Fiction-Konsum nicht in der Lage waren, Dystopien von positiven Utopien zu unterscheiden. Vielleicht sollte es mehr betreutes Lesen geben.
Hinzu kommt bei diesen rech…

Is the Multiverse Real? New Quantum Tech Might Finally Tell Us
https://scitechdaily.com/is-the-multiverse-real-new-quantum-tech-might-finally-tell-us/

TSA Working on Haptic Tech To 'Feel' Your Body in Virtual Reality https://www.404media.co/tsa-working-on-haptic-tech-to-feel-your-body-in-virtual-reality/

Plex asked me again tonight

@…
https://tech.lgbt/@scarlett7447/114636116113194078

ScarlettPPC (@scarlett7447@tech.lgbt)
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On Website Technicals (2025-08) - Tech updates: side quests... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-99.html

On Website Technicals (2025-08)
Tech updates: side quests...

USA nicht mehr "gelobtes Land" für deutsche Tech-Start-ups
Wenig Bürokratie und große Geschäftsmöglichkeiten: Lange Zeit lag der Standort USA in der Gunst deutscher Tech-Firmengründer weit vorn. Das hat sich geändert.

I’m very tempted to speculate that this report is banned in corporate C-suite and HR:
Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/12/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried
What do you think?🤔

Best way to destroy US tech leadership is to put import taxes (tariffs) on everything they sell overnight.
https://apnews.com/article/apple-trump-computer-tariff-c01b5ce0265b0d294dd10b8966be4436#

Trump plans 100% tariff on computer chips, unless companies build in US
President Donald Trump says he's imposing a 100% tariff on computer chips— a move that raises the specter of higher prices for electronics, autos, household appliances and other essential goods that depend on the processors. Companies making computer chips in the U.S. or planning to do so will be spared the import taxes. During the pandemic, a shortage of computer chips increased the price of autos and contributed to higher inflation. Investors continued to bet that Big Tech companies such as…

If you’re a person who can get pregnant, pls pls PLS do not use a period tracking app. PLEASE. #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveHealth #UnderHisEye

Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds
Lawyers hail jury’s “clear message” to Big Tech; Meta will fight verdict.

Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
--Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m,
--Play gang breached 900 orgs,
--Two ViLE members sentenced,
--UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam,
--One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control,
--Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise,
--Ukr…

US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m, Play gang breached 900 orgs, Two ViLE members sentenced, UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam, One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control, Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise, Ukraine claims hack of Russian aviation giant, much more

Tech people off to do tech things. Mysterious, really.

This is how important tax incentives are and why countries that only reactively shape their tax systems will keep lagging behind.
https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502

The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

The AI music problem on Spotify (and other streaming platforms) is worse than you think
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the

The AI music problem on Spotify (and other streaming platforms) is worse than you think
Aventhis, who doesn’t exist, has over a million monthly Spotify listeners. Everything appears to be in order – but it’s not.

Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature (Joe Murphy/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-community-not…

Use of Community Notes on Elon Musk's X has plummeted in 2025
Half as many crowdsourced Community Notes were created in May than were created in January.

Calamus 25 The prairie-grass dividing
Whitman's celebration of simple men, of men from "inland America", of those who are unimpressed by Presidents and Governors. It's a romantic sentiment but in 2025 also feels a little naïve or condescending.
But as always I'm here for the gay stuff. Which starts explicitly enough
[I] Demand the most copious and close companionship of men
Well OK then! Me too. Maybe you could read that in a non-sexual way but then Whitman gets lusty
[I demand] Those with a never-quell'd audacity—those with sweet and lusty flesh, clear of taint, choice and chary of its love-power
My goodness, is that hot! At least to start, it's a shame he tames it seeking out men "chary of love-power". At least he recognizes their love power! I'll take the taint, thank you.

Viele haben es vorausgesagt: Ende einer "Männerfreundschaft": Trump distanziert sich öffentlich von Musk – der kontert prompt und wirft dem Präsidenten Undankbarkeit vor. Streitpunkt: Trumps Steuergesetz, das Subventionen für E-Autos kürzt. Teslas Aktie bricht ein, Musk poltert: „Ohne mich hätte Trump die Wahl verloren.“ #Tagesschau

US-Präsident Trump geht auf Distanz zu Tech-Milliardär Musk
Es ist wohl das Ende einer Männerfreundschaft: US-Präsident Trump geht öffentlich auf Distanz zu Musk. Der Tech-Unternehmer reagiert umgehend - und spricht von Undankbarkeit.

Soll keiner sagen, dass das nicht auch im Rest von Europa möglich wäre. So man wollte …
Norway Reached 96.9% Market Share For EVs In June - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/2341234/norway-reached-969-market-share-fo…

Mailbag: Have Cowboys done enough at 1-Tech? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-have-cowboys-done-enough-at-1-tech

🙈 Adolescent capuchins kidnap the offspring of howler monkeys out of boredom
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-05-19/adolescent-capuchins-kidnap-the-offspring-of-howler-monkeys-out-of-boredom.html…

Adolescent capuchins kidnap the offspring of howler monkeys out of boredom
The behavior, which ends with the death of the young, was initiated by a young primate and imitated by others

Artisan raised a ruckus in San Francisco last year
when it rolled out its
“Stop Hiring Humans” catch phrase.
The slogan referred to how its product, A.I. chatbots that help sales teams automate repetitive tasks, could do what people do.
The company received angry emails and death threats addressed to Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, its 23-year-old chief executive.
But the marketing seems to have worked.
Artisan posted billboards in April announcing a successfu…

Tech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?
Take this quiz to test how fluent you are in the lingo of today’s tech industry.

Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”
Also tech bros: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383

REVEALED: Jun 6, 2025
Science & Tech:
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I solved it in 1️⃣ Reveals & 0️⃣ Hints!
#Revealed #WordPuzzle
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Revealed, a Daily Puzzle Game | Britannica
Uncover something interesting: Guess the topic using the fewest Reveals and Hints. Topics include People, Science & Tech, History & Society, and more.

AI agents = advanced malware that most of society decided is for some reason totally okay and chill and worth funding if it’s made by one of 3-4 tech giants
#AI #tech #LLM

Meet the Update Computer Club at #Uppsala Tech Conference today! We brought a #C64 and some #retrogames for you to play!

Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.

Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away. The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-br…

Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.

I've really been moved by Edward White's death and the tributes to him being written. His books have meant a lot to me as a gay man. I wrote a blog post with more links, many also shared on @…

Teaching with AI: Human Days and AI Days
In my previous post I outlined a plan for a no-tech pedagogy that would prevent students from using AI to do the assignments. However, my colleagues tell me that current policy at the university where I used to teach requires the use of AI in some classes. They have also eliminated the budget for photocopying handouts and texts. Everything must be delivered through the Learning Management System, which in this case is Canvas.

#InfoSec

Interesting. Never heard of this company before - seems to be used by most of the public sector in the UK for their social media accounts. Never seen .tech as a domain either!
https://orlo.tech

The Community Engagement Platform for the Public Sector | Orlo
Orlo is the community engagement platform for the public sector combining scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm https://www.404media.co/ice-is-buying-mobile-iris-scanning-tech-for-its-deportation-arm/

Cool visualization!
https://www.historicaltechtree.com/

Pentagon quietly diverts key anti-drone tech from Ukraine / The New Voice of Ukraine
https://english.nv.ua/nation/pentagon-quietly-diverts-key-anti-drone-tech-from-ukraine-50519683.html#goog_rewarded

Dass die Kantone und der Bund danach lechzen, unsere Daten zu ausländischen Cloudprovidern zu schicken, das ist ja schon länger ein Thema, nicht nur bei DNIP.
https://dnip.ch/2025/05/21/der-microso

Tech-ASan: Two-stage check for Address Sanitizer
Yixuan Cao, Yuhong Feng, Huafeng Li, Chongyi Huang, Fangcao Jian, Haoran Li, Xu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05022

Tech-ASan: Two-stage check for Address Sanitizer
Address Sanitizer (ASan) is a sharp weapon for detecting memory safety violations, including temporal and spatial errors hidden in C/C++ programs during execution. However, ASan incurs significant runtime overhead, which limits its efficiency in testing large software. The overhead mainly comes from sanitizer checks due to the frequent and expensive shadow memory access. Over the past decade, many methods have been developed to speed up ASan by eliminating and accelerating sanitizer checks, how…

Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.

On Website Technicals (2019-01) - Tech updates: Happy New Ear, cssgip, work storage, AMP srcset, LEDs, details, 400kpx image warning, bad AutoAd, indigestion, multi-hero, OGP revisited. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-20.html

On Website Technicals (2019-01)
Tech updates: Happy New Ear, cssgip, work storage, AMP srcset, LEDs, details, 400kpx image warning, bad AutoAd, indigestion, multi-hero, OGP revisited.

Plex has tried to trick me twice in the last month into agreeing to the abusive data sharing agreement that I first refused in March.

I felt that.
#думкиВголос #покрадено

Sources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Tries to Win Over Publishers Amid AI Search Tensions
Google’s relations with publishers have suffered lately, as its shift to AI-powered searches has hurt traffic being sent to publishers’ web sites. But Google is now taking steps to curry favor with publishers. In recent weeks, Google staffers on its ad tech unit that helps publishers sell ad ...

China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall and access the global internet, as it seeks to become a free-trade port (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy…

China will drop the Great Firewall for some users, but only in southern Hainan
Employees of companies operating in the island province can apply for the ‘Global Connect’ scheme, but some content will remain restricted.

Calamus 24 I hear it is charged against me
This poem feels just so typically Whitman, but lesser somehow. Not one of my favorites.
He says he is "charged that I seek to destroy institutions". Charged by whom, one wonders, is he really so important? He sort of denies this, or is ambivalent to it, and then gets to the queer part:
I will establish ... the institution of the dear love of comrades
And here we are again at the central queer question: just what does he mean by "dear love of comrades"? As I read these poems I'm increasingly thinking it's both things. Sure, it's brotherly love, adhesiveness, a sort of robust fraternity. But so much of his writing and life is homoerotic it has to also have that charge. It can be both.
I feel like I've heard that phrase "the institution of the dear love of comrades" repeated often.

Mailbag: Have Cowboys done enough at 1-Tech? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-have-cowboys-done-enough-at-1-tech

On Website Technicals - Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html

On Website Technicals
Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also.

so much depends
upon
an ethernet
cable
with its delicate
threads
and fragile
connectors

"Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border."
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-wants-new-tech-to-search-for-hidden-data-on-seized-phones/…

CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones
Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.

Sources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Tries to Win Over Publishers Amid AI Search Tensions
Google’s relations with publishers have suffered lately, as its shift to AI-powered searches has hurt traffic being sent to publishers’ web sites. But Google is now taking steps to curry favor with publishers. In recent weeks, Google staffers on its ad tech unit that helps publishers sell ad ...

Customs and Border Protection
is asking companies to pitch tools
for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-wants-new-tech-to-search-for-hidden-data-on-seiz…

CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones
Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.

Feeling wistful for an old lover, someone I didn't appreciate enough how good he was for me.

Microsoft Teases the Future of Windows as an Agentic OS - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/05/1647209/microsoft-teases-the-future-of-windows-as-an-agentic-os

I really can’t think of AI agents as anything other than malware with articles like these:
#AI #tech #LLM

The Indian government says it has not issued any directive to withhold the Reuters X account in the country (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/go…

Government says no order to withhold Reuters handle on X in India
India has denied ordering the blocking of Reuters’ X account, saying no such directive was issued. As per notification on the X account, it was withheld “in response to a legal demand,” sparking criticism from journalists and free speech advocates. An official spokesperson said that the government is working with X to resolve the issue amid growing censorship concerns.

Kernkraft für KI: Facebook-Konzern Meta mit Atomstrom-Deal für 20 Jahre
Rechenzentren für Künstliche Intelligenz benötigen gewaltige Mengen Strom. Mit Meta setzt noch ein Tech-Konzern dafür auf Kernenergie.

#WritersCoffeeClub August 1: Why are you writing your current work?
2: What's plentiful in your writing?
3: How heroic are your protagonists?
4: How violent is your work?
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1. Because no one else can.
2. Words.
3. Pretty much. Then again, is it truly heroism for a suicidal person?
4. Depends.
I never write gore for the sake of gore. Unless i…

Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-warns-states-dont-try-to-lower-broadband-prices/

Tech industry fears Musk-Trump rift fallout as some downplay its permanence, and sources say, try to stop Musk from appearing on an emergency All-In episode (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df15f13d-310f-47a5-89ed-330a6a379068

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s allies urge reconciliation after damaging split
Tech industry fears commercial and political damage from breakdown in relationship between Tesla boss and US president

Went down to our small town Fourth of July parade in Grass Valley, CA. It was kinda nice. I'm feeling very ambiguous about patriotism right now but I am American and I love many things about my country.

Resilience Media, which aims to be the defense tech industry's "publication of record", adds several ex-TechCrunch staff, including Ingrid Lunden and Matt Burns (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Former Techcrunch staff join rapidly expanding defence technology title
Veteran Techcrunch staffers are leading Resilience Media for the defence tech industry which has expanded due to seed fundraising.

Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new "hard tech", AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/ai-silicon-valle…

A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era
Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.”

NASA Satellites That Scientists and Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed On Purpose - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/06/050230/nasa-satellites-that-scientists-and-farmers-rely-on-may-be-destroyed-on-purpose

IGF25: Wer schaut der Tech-Branche in Konfliktzonen auf die Finger?
Tech-Unternehmen verhalten sich in Kriegsgebieten zum Teil problematisch, wird auf dem Internet Governance Forum berichtet. Kontrolle sei jedoch schwierig.

Board of Officers of Cave No. 1, Curly Bears, in full regalia circa 1900

Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.in…

Big Tech continues to hire in India even as local majors downsize
Despite global layoffs, FAAMNG companies are expanding their India headcount, growing by 16% in the past year, driven by demand for AI, cloud, and cybersecurity skills. While Indian IT firms face workforce reductions due to skills mismatch, Big Tech's India-based global capability centers are increasing hiring for high-end work and innovation.

The website for my rice cooker has one of those annoying cookie popup things. And then this absolute joy when you tell it "no ad cookies". It took over 30 seconds to commit and let me read a recipe.

DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/doge-used-flawed-ai-tool-to-munch-veterans-affairs-contracts/

Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/omada-shares-open-at-23-in-na…

Omada shares pop 42% in Nasdaq debut after health tech company's IPO
Omada Health became the latest tech company to hit the Nasdaq on Friday, as the IPO market picks up steam.

Sources: TSMC fires several employees for violating rules related to obtaining sensitive info on 2nm chip tech; TSMC says it detected "unauthorized activities" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

TSMC fires workers for breaching data rules on cutting-edge chip tech
Prosecutors are investigating the matter under Taiwan's National Security Act

Calamus 23 This moment as I sit alone
A promise of global unity, Whitman sharing his adulation for men in other countries.
I guess this is an antidote to Whitman's nationalism? His celebrations of America seem sweet and sincere but they are very American-centric. Here he's explicitly saying men of other lands can be just as wise, beautiful, or benevolent as American men. It seems unusual that he feels he has to say it explicitly.
As for the queer reading, his conclusion is
I know we should be brethren and lovers
There's that word, "lovers". It's so brash it's hard to understand. It seems uncharacteristically direct even understanding Whitman as a gay poet. Maybe this is some 19th century romantic language, mixing what feels very gay in with a more general celebration of brotherhood? Or maybe it is literally what it says, Whitman eroticizing international men.

How Palantir won over US lawmakers, leveraging geopolitical crises, technological trends, and DC connections, as CEO Alex Karp adopts a persona not unlike Trump (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/palantir-pltr-sto

RIP Edmund White. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/arts/edmund-white-dead.html

Analysts estimate AI services within Microsoft Azure generated $11.5B in revenue in the just-ended fiscal year, up 100% YoY but only ~4% of Microsoft's revenue (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-microso

How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation, brainstorming new products, and analyzing consumer reviews, as part of a five-year, $580M digital overhaul (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/clorox-ai-hidd

Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants (Ann-Marie Alcšntara/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-notetaker-m

Bah, no river swimming today. We want the flow to be more like 200 CFS. Not sure why Piggy turned it back up to 300 CFS just in time for people to drown July 4.

Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

Microsoft says it didn't cut services to the International Criminal Court, after an AP report in May said it "cancelled" the email of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.po…

Microsoft didn’t cut services to International Criminal Court, its president says
Chief prosecutor’s email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad.

Had a really nice time today at Gay Day at the Yuba, an informal Northern California thing. Some 500-1000 guys come to swim at my favorite skinny dipping swimming hole. It was really nice, a fun and good vibes event.

TikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

TikTok Shop launches in Japan as app faces uncertainty in US
The popular short-video app is seeking to diversify its global footprint while reducing its reliance on the US market.

This spam email has a fake "click to unsubscribe". It looks like a link but its destination is set to a no-op in the email source code. I want to support "The Blue Resistance" but they are making it very difficult.

Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024 (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

In my front yard, a doe with two fawns.

Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create AI agents for both local and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1117958/china-ai-a…

Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China
A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have so far made it easier to cater to overseas users.

Props to E*TRADE, they have a very simple no-bullshit online account closure. I had to open one to buy the $RDDT IPO. I donated the profits I made flipping the stock.

CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-equi…

@… how do you know an agent's code works? I'm trying to do more Claude Code and I just don't trust the output. Are you creating elaborate automated testing? Reading the code? Just visually inspecting the output?

Sources: Trump's team seeks a potential consent decree as part of an FTC deal forcing Meta to pay restitution to conservative users harmed by content moderation (Lydia Moynihan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/06/business/bi…

Big Tech's bet on Trump hasn't yielded special favors
Silicon Valley giants spent millions on Inauguration Day seats, but they’ve gotten little in return — save for a front-row view of their own reckoning.

In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.