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Gelöscht und doch nicht weg: Signal speichert Nachrichten länger als erwartet

Gelöscht und doch nicht weg: Signal speichert Nachrichten länger als erwartet
Je nachdem, wie intensiv man den Messenger nutzt, kann es Tage dauern, bis eine gelöschte Nachricht weg ist. Signal ignorierte den Fehler ein halbes Jahr.

Trump threatens to "put a big tariff on the UK" if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/04/24/trump-dr…

Trump threatens Starmer with ‘big tariff’ over tech tax
President tells The Telegraph he will retaliate if Britain continues to ‘target’ major American companies such as Apple, Google and Meta

Job loss? That one really seems weird. The numbers are not adding up to the stories we hear yet. But the numbers are not dire yet. Of course, our actual tracking of those numbers is increasingly suspect because of the US fascist project.
The big tech companies are absolutely pulling shenanigans, and using "AI" as an excuse for layoffs in a great number of cases, and in many cases, openly admitting they don't have any good ideas, so they'll lay people off instead of allocate them better. We are absolutely seeing the shifts in what are viable careers in tech though. And that was underway before AI: the UX bootcamps, for example, destabilized those job function, devaluing the workers, and the resulting shifts absolutely wrecked those job titles and the pay for them, leaving a bunch of people in the lurch.
But behind that too was our broken education system in the US: it was a shortcut around the massive debt that going to college can produce for people. But it didn't last, because it was vocational training being used purposefully as a wedge to change the labor market. Similar, sometimes intentional effects have happened in other aspects.
A huge amount of the "AI" problem is actually labor problems coming home to roost. We can blame Reagan for a lot of this.

#SMBC with #Marriage as a Service:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waas

The DEA is expected to reclassify marijuana as a less hazardous Schedule 3 substance as soon as this week. A spokesman said (as if stoned) “wait, did we miss four twenty? Aw man, that would have been a really cool schedule.”
Lines like that and 2 sketches I wrote in the all female cast (this week) of This Week This Week in LA tonight. Like the news, but funny.
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The Open Fist Theatre Company

The security industry is somewhat unique. It's probably the only industry created by the worker as a threat. If you talk to hackers who were in the scene before Operation Sundevil, you'll realize that it's always been a Bullshit Job.
Folks in L0ft and cDc were hacking companies and basically blackmailing them into paying for their services. Operation Sundevil "straightened up" the industry. Some people went to prison, some people build security services companies. Pretty much anyone who actually believed in the manifesto was locked up or edged out.
Using the Graeber framework here, hackers are partially duct tapers and partially goons. The critical thing here is that the industry was basically created to give money to people who would otherwise destroy the system.
Neuroatypical folks have always been forced to the margins of society, but computers gave us a super power. Now we were extremely dangerous. Tech, especially hackers, have always been paid a lot to minimize the risk of developing a class consciousness.
Graeber talked about this. Kings and nobles would often find some job or title that they could bestow on potential enemies in order to keep them close, to defang them. What better role than sheriff, a type of goon, for a rebel?
We turned it in to a whole thing. Not only did hackers make their own industry and force everyone else to accept it, we even created a whole parallel box ticker industry of "compliance" as a side effect.
The Hacker's Manifesto was decontectualized and made a fun artifact of the past. We were sold a story of "good hackers" who "protected grandma from the bad hackers." But the whole industry always existed to keep us on a leash. The funny thing is that it was a leash that we made ourselves.
But now we're seeing massive layoffs in tech, even in security. Now that we're this far in, everyone has forgotten the history. Leadership doesn't understand what security people do, so they think that LLMs can replace us. But the people in the industry now, the ones who came to it as a career, don't understand the history.
There was always a split for these weird outsiders, these people who couldn't fit in to the system but now had power over it. Some wanted in and they were willing to use extortion to get in, and others wanted to destroy the system to set everyone free.
Operation Sundevil, and the industry that evolved out of it, existed to neutralize those revolutionary elements by offering extortionists a safe entry. Extortionists trusted the capitalists to not stab them in the back the same way capitalists have stabbed everyone in the back through all of history. Now my LinkedIn feed is full of Meta layoffs, and I wonder if that class consciousness is starting to click for anyone yet.

Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds (John Higgins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/916463/anker-thus-chip-announcement

Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products
The Thus chip will come to earbuds first before being rolled out to other Anker products.

Anker Thus: Winziger KI-Speicherchip verbessert Geräuschunterdrückung
In Dresden hergestellte Mini-Chips landen künftig in In-Ear-Headsets. Bei Ankers Thus laufen KI-Modelle in NOR-Flash.
https://www.…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Anthropics „gefährliche“ KI Mythos: Unbefugte mit Zugriff seit dem ersten Tag