Tootfinder

Opt-in global Mastodon full text search. Join the index!

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-27 16:15:53

Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/node

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-01-28 10:01:00

Prism: KI-Tool für wissenschaftliches Schreiben
OpenAI bringt mit Prism einen KI-basierten Arbeitsbereich für wissenschaftliches Schreiben auf den Markt – beruhend auf LaTeX.
heise.…

@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
2026-01-26 23:00:25

This looks nice! Sometimes we get really cool things posted when folks show up at Maker Forums to make their first post, and AxioCNC looks modern and has some potentially really helpful features. 🎉
forum.makerforums.info/t/made-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-27 09:10:39

A look at Plucky Wire, a website for local newsrooms to find and share stories with each other for republication; it is now being used by over 200 publishers (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
niemanlab.org/2026/01/a-scrapp

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-01-25 15:32:32

"An AI Tool Recreates Some of the Friction of Academic Search. Is that Actually Helpful?" @ Katina Magazine:
katinamagazine.org/content/art

@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange
2025-12-28 01:04:36

Shout out to Uptime Kuma. Just lovely. If you use BetterStack or UptimeRobot but want to self-host your uptime monitor, check out Uptime Kuma
#HomeLab

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-01-27 16:30:00

Adobe Photoshop: neue Einstellungsebenen und erweiterte KI-Werkzeuge
Adobe Photoshop erhält Einstellungsebenen für Klarheit, Dunst entfernen und Korn, verbesserte KI-Werkzeuge und vorerst in Beta ein Tool für dynamischen Text.

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-02-24 20:33:48

How AI is used in journalism (yes, a serious application, that adds value, not possible on this scale before), niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-the-

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-01-27 23:22:18

Like I’ve used computers for maybe 8 hours today and literally none of what I did had anything to do with “AI”.
No matter how much the tech industry wants to feed us their generative excrement, it’s simply at most some other tool that some people use.
Just get fucked with this “it’s magical!” shit.

@hanno@mastodon.social
2026-01-27 12:47:59

Followerpower: I want a commandline tool that can do the following: take an SVG file input and produce a square-sized SVG output with the input centered and filled with transparency? I.e., let's say input is 50x100, output would be 100x100 with the input's content shifted 25px to the right.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-28 02:00:36

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005). 1696415 nodes, 11095298 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_skitter
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2026-01-26 12:11:09

Every non-hype defense of #LLMs starts with "you must already understand your work really well." But the people vibe coding prototypes *don't*.
As a result they scale up thoughtlessness. "Bulking out" a slapdash idea with hallucinated details only displaces the real thinking that could have led to actual innovation. The very teams the tool was supposed to help instead…

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-03-27 18:42:03

from my link log —
jsongrep is faster than {jq, jmespath, jsonpath-rust, jql}
micahkepe.com/blog/jsongrep/
saved 2026-03-27 dotat.a…

Congress authorized the SAVE program to help states ensure eligibility for public benefits applications
-- not to block American citizens from voting.
With substantial new changes to the SAVE program,
there is even more reason for election officials to exercise caution when using the system and interpreting its results.
SAVE is a tool for verifying citizenship.
Like other large-scale data sources,
it has flaws, exacerbated by an aggressive overhaul.
T…

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-02-26 19:08:44

Still, there are some other things Hypercard did we’d do well to study, even with full-scale tools. Off the top of my head:
- It richly rewarded unguided exploration. Unsuccessful experimentation had a way of leading to paths forward, not just dead ends.
- Much of it worked by direct manipulation: if you want the thing there, you put the thing there. (Unity and Godot both sort of kind of do some descendant of this, but not with the same discoverability and transparency.)
- There was a rich library of good starting points, modifiable examples.
- An empty but functioning new project had essentially zero boilerplate. You didn’t have to have 15 files and hundreds of lines of code to get a blank page.
- Its UI made it easy-ish for newcomers to ask “What can I do with this thing here?” Modern autocomplete and inline docs kind of sort of approximate this, but in practice only for people who already have tool expertise.
- HyperTalk (the programming language) is tricky to write (it’s a p-lang), but it’s remarkably easy to read. You can peer at it with very limited knowledge and make educated guesses about its semantics, and those guesses will be mostly correct. (HyperTalk syntax tends to get the most attention when people talk about this, I think at the expense of the other things above.)

@datascience@genomic.social
2026-02-27 11:00:01

Polars is a lightning fast DataFrame library/in-memory query engine with parallel execution and cache efficiency. And now you can use is with the tidyverse syntax: #rstats

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-25 13:40:59

London-based enterprise coding startup SolveAI raised a $45M Series A led by GV in November 2025 and a $5M pre-seed led by Accel in August 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
fortune.com/2026/02/25/exclusi

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-02-23 07:35:39

«AWS-Ausfälle durch KI-Coding-Tool Kiro:
Amazons eigene KI-Werkzeuge haben angeblich mindestens zweimal für Störungen in der Cloud-Infrastruktur gesorgt, ein 13-stündiger Ausfall inklusive»
Was soll ich dazu noch kommentieren, ausser, das war nur eine Frage der Zeit?! Die KI ist in manchen Punkten hilfreich aber meistens blindes Vertrauen in Unsinn ohne deren "Nutzung" zu verstehen.
🤦

@benny@norden.social
2026-01-28 09:55:05

Wie nah ist deine Website am Zentrum des Internets? 🕸️
​Für LLMs ist das entscheidend. Die werden oft mit Daten vom "Common Crawl" trainiert.
Je zentraler eine Seite im Web-Graphen liegt, desto wahrscheinlicher landet sie im Trainingsdaten-Set.
​Das Tool WebGraph macht das sichtbar.
Es zeigt den "Harmonic Centrality Rank" – quasi wie viele Sprünge man von den wichtigsten Knoten des Netzes entfernt ist.
​Bist du im Top-Cluster oder in der Pampa…

@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de
2026-02-27 11:18:20

Dank eines Tipps von @… im @… Podcast habe ich gestern Topgrade entdeckt. Das Tool aktualisiert mit einem einzigen Befehl alle Paketmanager und Tools auf dem System. Sehr praktisch und mir bisher unbekannt!

Ein macOS-Terminalfenster mit dunklem Hintergrund und heller Schrift zeigt die Ausgabe eines automatisierten Update-Skripts. Zunächst wird ein Hinweis angezeigt, dass das libreoffice-language-pack nicht automatisch aktualisiert werden kann. Dann folgt um 12:08:01 ein Abschnitt „macOS Systemupdate", in dem gelb hervorgehoben gefragt wird, ob ein verfügbares System-Update installiert werden soll (Y für Ja, N für Nein). Die Command Line Tools für Xcode 26.3 werden heruntergeladen und installiert. …
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-02-27 15:40:46

At this point, if you don't find AI tools useful for code generation, that's a skill issue.
(The issue is that you are an actually competent programmer who knows how to do things like abstract boilerplate code into a helper function or practice test-driven development, and therefore you recognize the AI tool "assistance" as a net productivity loss. If you aren't good enough on your own that AI slows you down, the "speedup" you'll experience can only come at a crippling quality cost, which you might not even be able to recognize until it's too late.)
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-01-27 04:01:57

RE: #Hootsuite

@petaqui@masto.es
2026-01-25 22:42:09

❗ Aplicaciones de notas y migración 🗒️
Si trabajšis con el ordenador a menudo, seguro que os suena esta historia. Se manejan muchas notas, con muchos formatos, fotos, enlaces, tablas, etc. Hasta ahora uso #UpNote , una herramienta absolutamente increíble, lo mejor que he visto tras probar al menos 10 aplicaciones. Me quedaría con ella para siempre, pero cada vez me preocupa mšs la seguridad y

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-01-27 04:31:59

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results - Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing: #DarkEnergy come together in a single experiment for the first time. Also Dark Energy Survey - DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement: arxiv.org/abs/2601.14864. And CosmoSlider - An educational tool for cosmology: arxiv.org/abs/2601.16919

@barijaona@mastodon.mg
2026-02-28 06:42:08

Even forgotten, good work lasts forever
“Creating, yet not possessing, Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever.” Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching verse 2 25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-

@kctipton@mas.to
2026-01-26 04:14:14

One Extraordinary Photo: AP photographer uses infrared technology as surveillance tool | AP News apnews.com/article/2025-invisi

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-27 15:27:26

FPF Releases Updated Infographic on Age Assurance Technologies, Emerging Standards, and Risk Management
fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-upda

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-24 23:10:47

Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, which allows artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks being attributed to them (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/spot

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-23 15:26:31

This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow 404media.co/this-web-tool-sabo

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-03-18 14:09:42

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
wired.com/story/hundreds-of-mi

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-25 00:20:58

Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, allowing artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/spot

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-01-20 07:08:12

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2026-01-24 19:08:59

I've been experimenting with #eca on #emacs and managed to make a start on one of my TODO's which was make a useful #gnus

@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2026-02-18 15:06:58

A research project led by the University of Glasgow has launched a free, open-source tool designed to make AI systems more trustworthy by enabling more rigorous audits, including by non-experts.
computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/u

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-01-28 08:34:09

New open weights model Kimi K2.5
"self-directed agent swarm paradigm" ,
"For complex tasks, Kimi K2.5 can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents, executing parallel workflows across up to 1,500 tool calls. Compared with a single-agent setup, this reduces execution time by up to 4.5x. The agent swarm is automatically created and orchestrated by Kimi K2.5 without any predefined subagents or workflow."

On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov,
an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying.
Its replacement site completely sucks.
“FPDS may have been a little clunky, but its simple, old-school interface made it extremely functional and robust.
Every facet of government operations touches on contracting at one point,
and this was the first tool that many investigative journalists and researchers would re…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-01-26 12:00:37

"New calculator shows exactly how much environmental damage is behind your internet searches"
#Technology #Internet #Emissions

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-03-25 14:13:21

Well, that’s half of the two hard problems in computer science solved!
From W3C “Use of Large Language Models in Standards Work”
w3.org/TR/llms-standards/#brai
Now LLMs just need to solve cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.

§ 1.3 Brainstorming Names: New standards work often needs new names. Those names should be easy to understand while still fitting platform conventions and avoiding conflicts with existing terms. Because LLMs are trained on a very large sample of human language, they're a great tool to use when trying to come up with human friendly names for novel concepts.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-01-21 10:28:00

Powertoys 0.97: Neues Maus-Tool zum Cursor-„Durchscrollen“
Die Powertoys bringen in Version 0.97 ein neues Maus-Tool mit, das Monitor-Grenzen einreißt. Die Befehlspalette wurde verbessert.

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2026-01-26 08:06:54

There is no immigration crisis in the United States. Immigrants are an asset. We have instead a crisis of lies spread by pro-fascist media and politicians who are bent on destroying democracy in their search for more power. ICE is just a tool in that giant fraud.

@jswright61@ruby.social
2026-01-19 23:06:14

Announcing Categories Helper
A tool I made, inspired by and building of a tool made by @…
This tool is designed to help you sort out categories in a Connections type categories game.
Some people have been using an alpha version of this tool for a week or so - thanks for the feedback.
Now in beta, ready for wider release.
It now supports g…

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2026-01-27 07:17:22

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
JENNA: Orac is not a computer.
AVON: That was its creator's vanity. Orac is a computer. It is a highly sophisticated tool, and that is all.
JENNA: Well, something frightened Cally.

Ukraine update: Definition of a "gray zone" is very different in today's military. Unsurprisingly, Russia uses ignorance as a tool in it's blundering genocide of Ukraine.
Giorgio is a hero reporting from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine.
Support Ukraine, support journalism, by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:

@jaandrle@fosstodon.org
2026-03-25 15:17:14

I am working on my projects at my job and “suddenly”, I have just finished something different…
github.com/jaandrle/git-info
A Git status tool inspired by [GitButler](

screenshot of the terminal:

✓  At 16:06 by jaandrle in [dev/main|=] ~/Vzdálené/GitHub/facilitator-network-cell
>_:git
╭┄┄ [unstaged changes]
┊    no changes
┊
┊╭┄ [dev/main]
┊●   11e2237 :zap: :cop: Improves types (Jan Andrle · 3 hours ago)
┊●   e578f03 :zap: Adds valibot (Jan Andrle · 6 days ago)
┊●   e074fd1 :abc: Updates docs and changelog (todo) (#32) (Jan Andrle · 6 days ago)
┊●   09c74bb :zap: Adds Presentation Dashboard page (Jan Andrle · 4 weeks ago)
┊●   c6e1ce9 :bug: :zap: Fixes…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-24 00:28:06

🔄 CacheAligner: Stabilizes prefixes so provider caching actually works - up to 10x savings by fixing dynamic content like dates that break cache hits
📊 RollingWindow: Manages context within limits without breaking tool calls - drops oldest tool outputs first, never breaks system prompts or recent turns
🔧 Easy setup options: Proxy server works with any #OpenAI-compatible client with…

@crell@phpc.social
2026-02-25 01:33:02

Traits in #PHP are a limited purpose tool, but they do have a purpose.
garfieldtech.com/blog/beyond-a

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-26 13:10:47

WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/what

Immigration-enforcement officers have used tear gas on nonviolent protesters, broken into homes and cars, and killed people, including U.S. citizens.
ICE and Customs and Border Protection have been behaving like an out-of-control police force.
No wonder, then, that when lawyers and other advocates try to challenge these federal officials’ abuses of power—in court and on the streets—they tend to reach for the same legal tool used to combat police violence:
the Fourth Amend…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-28 07:00:04

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 4209 nodes and 13882 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020). 4209 nodes, 13882 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/mist#genetic_fly
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-25 16:53:31

If you have conservative friends who are MAGA oriented, while also being pro second amendment, like I do, Trump's own words here are a great tool to try to get them thinking. My own family is full of people who conceal carry and are also law-abiding citizens. People need to be awoken to the reality the this man has never been who he claimed to be.

HE HAD A GUN, ONLY CRIMINALS CARRY GUNS IN OUR STREETS., WE NEED LAW AND ORDER. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

A post by president Trump on truth.social
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-01-22 08:57:59

XAML, somewhere between XML and YAML, not to confuse with SAML.
github.com/dotnet/XAMLStudio

@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-27 08:32:10

From synthetic turbulence to true solutions: A deep diffusion model for discovering periodic orbits in the Navier-Stokes equations
Jeremy P Parker, Tobias M Schneider
arxiv.org/abs/2602.23181 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23181 arxiv.org/html/2602.23181
arXiv:2602.23181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in synthesizing data that mimic complex real-world systems, but its potential role in the discovery of mathematically meaningful structures in physical models remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how a generative diffusion model can be used to uncover previously unknown solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation: the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in a turbulent regime. Trained on data from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence, the model learns to generate time series that resemble physically plausible trajectories. By carefully modifying the temporal structure of the model and enforcing the symmetries of the governing equations, we produce synthetic trajectories that are periodic in time, despite the fact that the training data did not contain periodic trajectories. These synthetic trajectories are then refined into true solutions using an iterative solver, yielding 111 new periodic orbits (POs) with very short periods. Our results reveal a previously unobserved richness in the PO structure of this system and suggest a broader role for generative AI: not as replacements for simulation and existing solvers, but as a complementary tool for navigating the complex solution spaces of nonlinear dynamical systems.
toXiv_bot_toot

@macandi@social.heise.de
2026-01-21 07:04:00

heise | Plattenspieler: Alternativer Audioplayer für Apple-Geräte im Test
Longplay zelebriert die stilvolle Wiedergabe kompletter Alben – etwas, was andere Apps so nicht bieten. Wir haben das Tool für Mac, iPhone und iPad getestet.

@davej@dice.camp
2026-01-21 21:43:23

First-ever flexible #ToolUse seen in a #cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed | #ScientificAmerican

@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-24 18:15:01

Phil Vacca will speak on 'Did VS Code Quietly Become a Go-To Postgres Tool?' as part of our PostgreSQL@SCaLE track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

@joxean@mastodon.social
2026-02-24 08:49:21

Can you recommend me some tool for performance testing of native applications to integrate into CI/CD? The idea is that I would like to test the performance change of specific changes to a code base. It's trivial to write, but I'm 99% sure something must exists, alas, I cannot find such a project.
#PerformanceTesting

@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social
2026-02-24 13:21:08

Wer mal richtig mit Musik 🎶 , KI 🤖 und dem Culture Knowledge Graph 🐙 hacken will, ist ganz herzlich zur Teilnahme an der Data Challenge von @… und @… eingeladen! Das Ziel lautet "Develo…

Musikalisches Event vom Datenkompetenzzentrum HERMES: Auf dem Bild sind Achtelnoten zu sehen, die sich vor einem dunklen Hintergrund mit binäre Zahlenkolonnen abheben.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-02-26 02:47:35

There’s a long history of people thinking that they’ve made programming easier by changing the syntax, or by making it not look like programming. That history is mostly a parade of embarrassments (COBOL! 4GLs!). One big subset of the current AI hype is just that mistake again — “vibe coding is programming in English!” — but now compounded by the nondeterminism of the tool.
Hogg’s thread correctly navigates around that mistake, focusing on •abstractions• instead of •syntax• as the problem.

@ripienaar@devco.social
2026-02-24 17:13:52

I cleaned up/firmed up my scaffold project to have tests, better file creation model, better docs etc.
Scaffold can be used to render many files from a template source - imagine you have a scaffold to bootstrap a Go project.
Combine this with interactive forms and you can have a interactive question-answer session to start up new projects.
I also added a CLI tool that lets you just use these features interactively.
The project

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-27 03:35:49

Steno, which offers an AI-powered case transcript analysis tool for legal professionals, raised a $49M Series C led by Savano Capital Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
siliconangle.com/2026/03/26/st

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-24 02:45:42

Trump's New Political Tool: ICE (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/poli
memeorandum.com/260323/p163#a2

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-02-11 03:23:03

On a Possible UK Policy Modelling Tool (2009) - What-Ifs and Goal-Seeking for policy makers and the rest of us in the UK? - m.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-poli

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-24 22:10:49

AWS launches Elemental Inference, an AI tool that lets networks convert live video into vertical clips for mobile and social media use in real time (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-26 17:50:42

Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5 (Qwen)
qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thin

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-01-25 15:35:52

"KI in der Spezialbibliothek: Darüber nachdenken oder einfach machen?"
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0 (Vortragsfolien)
"Die Forschungsbibliothek des Herder-Instituts, größte Spezialbibliothek zur Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuro…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-26 10:00:37

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005). 1696415 nodes, 11095298 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_skitter
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de
2026-03-26 09:21:50

Vorgestern auf dem #CloudFest entdeckt: deathbyclawd.com
Ein Tool, das analysiert, wie leicht sich deine Firma durch einen AI Skill ersetzen lässt. Sicher nicht immer richtig, aber erstaunlich o…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-01-23 16:56:00

Microsofts ungewöhnlicher Test: Claude Code von Anthropic im Fokus
Microsoft testet intensiv das KI-Entwicklungs-Tool Claude Code von Anthropic. Tausende Mitarbeiter nutzen es, auch für Produkte wie Windows und Microsoft 365.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-25 18:17:05

Pressure on Senators •is working•. Previously head-in-sand centrist Senators are actually coming out to vote against ICE funding. Their positions are still weak and insufficient, and more need to cave to pressure — but they are visibly buckling.
Again, we should not and must not wait on elected officials to save us — they will not — but we can and should deploy pressure on them as a strategic tool in moments when that can be useful.
Now is such a moment. KEEP IT UP.
1/

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-26 21:45:49

Google releases new tools for its Gemini AI assistant that let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps, making it easier to switch from them (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-25 15:02:03

📉 Reduces token consumption by 99%! From ~47,000 tokens to ~400 tokens when using 6 MCP servers with 60 tools - massive savings for AI agent workflows
⚡ Connection pooling with lazy-spawn daemon featuring 60s idle timeout for optimal performance - no manual start/stop needed
🎛️ Tool filtering via allowedTools and disabledTools config to control which tools are available - supports glob patterns like read_* or *file*

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-17 12:42:01

from my link log —
k6: a web load testing tool, written in Golang and configured in JavaScript.
github.com/loadimpact/k6
saved 2020-11-28

@ripienaar@devco.social
2026-02-24 15:34:03

I have been using Moom (manytricks.com/moom/) for clever window management on my Mac, their licensing is fucking stupid and I am sick of filing issues to get hold of license files.
Anyone else have a similarly good tool they can recommend?

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-16 14:06:50

Underground Facial Recognition Tool Unmasks Camgirls 404media.co/underground-facial

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-03-18 15:36:15

:apple_old_logo: 🚨 PSA
Update your iPhone wired.com/story/hundreds-of-mi

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-25 14:10:49

Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/adob

@macandi@social.heise.de
2026-01-20 11:24:00

macOS: Password Utility entsperrt FileVault und macht sudo Biometrie-fähig
Neu startende Remote-Macs, die sich nicht mehr steuern lassen, Passwort-Zwangseingaben statt Touch ID und mehr: Ein neues Tool soll dagegen helfen.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-01-22 09:57:00

Adobe Acrobat Studio: KI-Werkzeuge für PDFs, Präsentationen und Podcasts
Adobe ergänzt die PDF-Software Acrobat um KI-Funktionen, die Dokumente in Präsentationen oder Audiodateien umwandeln, und ein Tool zur Online-Zusammenarbeit.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-26 04:16:06

Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K downloads since its release (Reece Rogers/Wired)
wired.com/story/openclaw-users

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-03-25 01:21:08

I wrote a static site generator for a course web site (comp127.macalester.digital/f25/). I like it, and I’m poking at documenting and open-sourcing it so that other instructors can use it for their own courses if they want to.
It needs a cute name. Suggestion box is now open in the replies.
EDIT: I was a fool to mention Moodle in the original version. It’s wrecked the replies: everyone’s talking about LMSes, and all the name suggestions are about Moodle — when the point is that this is not anti-Moodle, but a tool to solve a different set of problems.

@macandi@social.heise.de
2026-01-09 10:50:00

Gegen Ordner-Chaos: Tool rüstet Vorschau im macOS-Finder nach
Wer große Mengen an Dateiordnern auf seinem Mac hat, verliert schnell den Überblick. Ein kleines Finder-Werkzeug hilft hier.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-02-23 12:42:03

from my link log —
Using nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS secondary.
blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/nsn
saved 2026-02-23

The source of bad data was a Department of Homeland Security tool called the
"Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements," or SAVE.
Once used mostly to check immigrants’ eligibility for public benefits,
SAVE has undergone a dramatic expansion over the last year at the behest of Donald Trump,
who has long falsely claimed that millions of noncitizens lurk on state voter rolls, tainting American elections.
At Trump’s direction, DHS has pooled confiden…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-25 14:20:55

Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-13 16:05:00

Breitband-Mindestversorgung: Bundesnetzagentur startet Prüf-Tool für Bürger
Mit einer neuen interaktiven Karte können Haushalte ab sofort kontrollieren, ob ihr Internetanschluss den gesetzlichen Mindestvorgaben von 15 Mbit/s entspricht.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-25 14:10:58

Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/adob

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-20 14:01:00

heise | Project Genie ausprobiert: Googles Weltmodell, das Gaming-Aktien purzeln lässt
Project Genie erschafft interaktive Welten aus einem einfachen Prompt oder Foto. Wir testen, ob Googles KI-Tool echten Spielen gefährlich werden könnte.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-17 15:25:57

World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/worl

Mark Zuckerberg said META Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO
Meta Platforms chief uses the tool to get information faster as the company seeks to embrace artificial intelligence in all it does
wsj.com/…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-19 19:48:00

Integration in Codex: OpenAI übernimmt das Start-up Astral
OpenAI baut mit der Übernahme des Python-Tool-Entwicklers Astral das Engagement im Bereich Coding weiter aus und will seine Codex-Plattform weiterentwickeln.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-18 14:11:02

Researchers from Google, iVerify, and Lookout discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russian state-sponsored groups to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
wired.com/story/hundreds-of-mi

AI companies are raising at valuations that require them to grow at rates that are only achievable by chasing the broadest possible market with the most generic possible product.
A company that raises at a $500M valuation needs to show a path to billions in revenue,
which means it can't afford to be a niche tool that does one thing brilliantly for a specific audience.
It has to be a platform, horizontal, aimed at enterprise, built for no one in particular.
Ever…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-02-04 05:59:00

Neues KI-Tool von Anthropic: Nächster schwarzer Börsentag für Software-Branche
Die Talfahrt für die Software-Branche an den Finanzmärkten setzt sich fort: Für den nächsten großen Ausverkauf sorgte nun wohl ein neues KI-Tool von Anthropic.

As the government continues to pursue mass deportations, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,”
though the law has nothing to do with terrorism.
Across the country, prosecutors have ch…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-02-02 11:03:00

Spielwelten per Mausklick: Googles neues KI-Tool lässt Gaming-Aktien purzeln
Googles neues KI-Tool kreiert interaktive Umgebungen aus Textvorgaben und Bildern. Die Kurse von Take-Two, Roblox und Unity verzeichneten zweistellige Verluste.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 16:36:18

Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project by extracting text and objects into individual layers (Jesus Diaz/Fast Company)
fastcompany.com/91506292/canva

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-01-29 14:07:00

Ist Moltbot der erste echte KI-Assistent? Warum das Tool für Wirbel sorgt
Moltbot soll sich Gespräche merken und proaktiv Aufgaben erledigen. Warum das Tool einen Hype in der KI-Szene erfährt und welche Risiken damit einhergehen.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-23 15:15:52

Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
wired.com/story/claude-code-su

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 12:30:36

Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/snap