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Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/spotifys-prompted-pl…

Spotify's prompted playlist feature will now work for podcasts, too | TechCrunch
Spotify will now allow users to input natural language prompts to create podcast playlist.

Watched a couple of episodes of #DeArktiskeReddere on DR (public broadcaster on Denmark) yesterday (series about #Greenland's search and rescue team - though they do a lot of emergency air ambulance type work too).
It's a really gripping and well filmed piece of work, sensitive on the difficult topics too and shows really well how different authorities work together.
I imagine it would be uncomfortable watching for USians who seem to imagine some kind of stone age society seeing healthcare emergencies dealt with so professionally with such excellent equipment (and for free at point of delivery).
I also find it hard to explain that the categories and separation between "Danes" and "Greenlanders" isn't always so clear cut and I think the programme got that over well.
It's filmed mostly in Danish but with Swedish, Norwegian and quite a bit of English, so may not travel easily but it's a really well done piece of TV and if you are at all interested in Greenland, it's worth seeking out.
De arktiske reddere https://www.dr.dk/drtv/serie/de-arktiske-reddere_450849

Six Umbrellas – Back To Work
https://archive.org/details/Wuerfel43-SixUmbrellas-Back_to_Work
https://…

Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/spotifys-prompted-pl…

Spotify's prompted playlist feature will now work for podcasts, too | TechCrunch
Spotify will now allow users to input natural language prompts to create podcast playlist.

Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.
It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.
Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.
If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.
You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.

“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer. The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, such as writing and flow diagramming, before beginning work with the computer itself. His sessions with the computer may be comparatively short. He may even let others do the actual console work. He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them. Again, he may leave the actual running of the computer to others. He is able, while waiting for results from the computer, to attend to other aspects of his work, such as documenting what he has already done. When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things. The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his will.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976

Ask A D.C. Native: Why does everyone ask what I do for work? (Rhonda Henderson/The 51st)
https://51st.news/ask-dc-native-what-do-you-do-for-work/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p78#a260507p78

Apple throwing some time into bugs today…
• 240961: `position: relative` doesn't work as expected on table row, 26 May 2022, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240961
• 305719: REGRESSION (iOS 26): Datalist options obscure text input, 18 January 2026,

New post by me: Be More Human
We each get to, and need to, decide that our humanity is partly what drives whether or not we book work: who and what we are.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/be-more-human/
Won't you subscribe while you're there? It's free (unless y…

Be More Human
We each get to, and need to, decide that our humanity is partly what drives whether or not we book work: who and what we are.

*mimimimimimimimi*
Die @… "nimmt dieses Jahr nicht an der «bike to work»-Aktion teil". 😞
Sehr schade. IMHO in Zeiten der Klimakrise definitiv ein falsches Zeichen.
(Quelle: Antwort-Mail auf Nachfrage via https://www.

bike to work
bike to work is a campaign to promote health in companies.

Workers’ pay is increasingly shaped by opaque algorithms and artificial intelligence systems,
shifting compensation decisions away from human managers, clear legal standards, and collective bargaining.
This phenomenon
—known as algorithmic wage discrimination1 or surveillance pay
—was first documented in app-controlled ride-hail and food-delivery work.
Now, it is spreading to a range of other industries and services.
Surveillance wages are being offered …

How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it
How surveillance pay practices work, where they are increasingly deployed in the U.S. economy, and policy recommendations to ensure pay fairness and transparency.

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Got my indiekit syndicator for #Linkedin to work 🤓 with a nice backend to refresh the token (using OAuth) via the backend directly with the user linkedin session once every 2 months, it’s a manual step but it’s smooth
https://rmende…

Ricardo Mendes
8 February 2026 indiekit plugins Got my indiekit syndicator for #Linkedin to work 🤓 with a nice backend to refresh the token (using OAuth) via the backend directly with the user linkedin session once...

The people on top are good in one thing: getting to the top and staying there. This can help for some of the work that needs to be done but is a kinda one-sided qualification.
We should try to get people on top that know how to do the work that needs to be done – and allow them to do their work¹.
In politics as in companies.
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¹which does not mean to let them do what they want to. It is important monitor those in power, but we should learn to stop them for the right re…

An anomaly onboard the #Proba3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft led to loss of contact between the spacecraft and ground control: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Work_ongoing_to_restore_contact_with_Proba-3_s_Coronagraph - the root cause of the anomaly is under investigation and mission teams are working hard to recover the situation.

Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio:
“Something very twisted has to motivate the (US government) when for the sake of collective punishment against the people of Cuba, it pressures sovereign governments into depriving their own populations of quality health services,”
Power slowly being restored to Cuba as crews work round the clock | Morning Star

Six Umbrellas – Back To Work
https://archive.org/details/Wuerfel43-SixUmbrellas-Back_to_Work
https://…

Russia halts work at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant amid Middle East fighting: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/russia-halts-work-at-irans.html

THERE WILL BE TRIUMPH OF EVIL, THERE ALWAYS HAS BEEN, ESPECIALLY TODAY, THAT DOESN'T MAKE OUR WORK MEANINGLESS

Die Unternehmen, die für die Plattformen die Altersverifizierung durchführen, sammeln mehr Daten als nötig wäre.
„Yoti “collects significant private information beyond what is strictly necessary to verify age” and that it “relies on sharing sensitive user information with several less user-visible fourth parties.”“
Das ist eins der zentralen Probleme der #SocialMediaVerbote

Not reproducible, however I have a VirtualBox snapshot of the bugged installation.
I can restart SDDM and login, again I get a black screen. Xorg.0.log has one error:
open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
Maybe negligible. The same error occurs when I successfully startx and use twm instead of Plasma (X11).
'reboot -r' is not enough to work around the issue.
Plasma did work, once, after 'shutdown -r now', however this is not a consis…

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

More than 200 journalists at Law360 and its sister publications sign a letter demanding that parent company RELX drop its contract with DHS due to ICE's actions (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsr…

Journalists push back against parent companies’ contracts with ICE - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

I know I'm in a ridiculously privileged situation to be able to moan about this, but work has really felt like **work** recently. Endless marking, paper revisions, reviewing, and admin. It seems that all of the crap tasks have basically bunched together in the last couple of weeks.

Thanks to a work-in-progress Homebrew cask by Andi Péter (https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/issues/15#issuecomment-11159294), I was just able to quickly install and play with the new Gram code editor (

LESSON 20: Don’t chase that feeling of being the hero who solved the problem. Just show up and do the work.

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk/

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

The only thing worse than "it doesn't work and I don't understand why" is "it works and I don't understand why".
As best I can tell, the several months ago state (which worked and gave correct output) and the current state (which worked and gave correct output) both being correct are mutually exclusive, because they swap the forward and reverse FFT inputs.
So either it was broken all along and occasionally worked due to the race I still don't f…

EU adopts -90% emission reduction target for 2040, and max 5% of that by 'high-quality international targets', i.e. reductions elsewhere. 14 years to go and a *lot* of work to be done!
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/p

Florida Man goes to bed early, gets a good night’s rest, goes to work the next day, gets a raise, goes on a bender to celebrate and shoots up the bar, killing 3, including himself, wounding 6.
#CharacterOnTheNews #HashTagGames

A buddy of mine is looking for work! Hit me up if you’re interested in a great developer and leader

Why do we let the greedy capitalists do this to our industry?
#LLM

Ooh how did I miss that the new Pagefind has a new Web Components-based UI (used to be Svelte)? https://github.com/Pagefind/pagefind/releases/tag/v1.5.0 Awesome work team!

Donald Knuth is quite enthusiastic about his recent experiences with generative AI: #Knuth

On my way to work today I found on the ground: a 5$ bill, a full pack of smoke and some dude health insurance card.

Here's Why Personality Tests ALWAYS Work* by SciShow
#science

"How can men of Hispanic lineage work for a paramilitary organization dedicated to terrorizing Hispanics?...White doesn’t mean white race. It means white power."
These killers tell us something disturbing about America under Trump - Raw Story
https://archive.ph/eUUZj#selection-755.70-755.174

dont let em getchu with ur work undone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhShzGRUx30

>Unloading trailer @ work.
>Box filled with bottles of wine fell (and some bottles inside broke).
>Dude helping me unload: "nonono my friend, is good for drink not for trailer"
>Me: "Oh, I thought the trailer wanted a drink" :gnulightened:

GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.
Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a max…

My university suggests in this morning's email blast that to find work recent graduates should start podcasts in which they discuss finding work with older alumni.

I got an email at work from the union, asking me to follow them on Bluesky and/or Threads. I replied back that I can't until they enable the Bridgy Fed or turn on sharing to the Fediverse. I'm guessing that I will never hear from them again.

There are just a few days left to apply for the OSPARK Bootcamp (June/July 2026).
If you are working on an Open Research initiative, service, or infrastructure and want your work to reach the people who need it, this program is designed for you.
Topics:
- Defining goals and audience
- Voice and brand
- Communication channels (socials, video, emails, ...)
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- Focus on real value
- Involving allies
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📅 Application…

I gotta admit that Passkeys have grown on me. I use them with 1Password & the integration even in Apple’s apps is great.
Looks like the worst UX problems have been ironed out and pressing “Login using Passkey” is much nicer than pasting email codes or getting angry that OTP auto-fill doesn’t work.
My main annoyance now is that many sites use it as 2FA and not as a primary login.

OK, I have a horrible bug in `read`, which seems to be looping on the first character after a left parenthesis -- and I can't see why. But I got only four hours sleep last night and I am not taking enough care of my body, so it's time to stop work for the day, have a bath, and rest.
(Yes, I have voted).
#SelfCare

I think I'm going to start muting anti-AI bigots. I know all the bad things about AI. Hell, I've given talks on most those points. But if you work in the technology sector, AI is a skill that we need to learn. So I started playing with it, and guess what? It's enjoyable to learn a new technology. And social media is a place to share that joy. I keep coming across folks that deeply hate AI, and I get yelled at like I'm killing baby seals. So going to starts cleansing my feed …

9 Things You’re Overengineering (The Browser Already Solved Them)
https://dev.to/sylwia-lask/9-things-youre-overengineering-the-browser-already-solved-them-o99

from my link log —
Pushing and pulling: three reactivity algorithms.
https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/reactivity-algorithms/
saved 2026-03-07

Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms | Jonathan's Blog
It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks. The Problem Statement The simplest way to visualise reactivity, in my opinion, is as a spreadsheet. You have a series of input cells, containing your initial data, and a seri…

One thing they don't tell you (or perhaps know) about antidepressants is that you can and likely will continue to have the brain zaps later, even when you've stopped taking them for a while-- I'm talking months later. Not that antidepressants don't work- they can, and do. But just something to be prepared for.
#MentalHealth

There's a senile pedophile who could accidentally wipe out all life on Earth because he's not able to understand the consequences of his actions, and we're all supposed to go to work tomorrow (assuming we survive the night).
Yeah, I don't like this

Is there anything better than watching some poor dude flailing as he's hitting on some random woman? "I really like your shirt, it's such a cool vibe" "it's my work uniform."
I either winced or laughed at that, I can't remember.
[I don't know if he ultimately succeeded in getting her number, but always remember that this is what the apps have taken away from us!]

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Work on the Sisyphus server rewrite in #golang has begun, and I forgot how much I enjoyed Gin. All of the `GET` routes have been implemented, and only a few random crashes had to be figured out...next up is the rest of the routes...lol
h…

(Dogs work too.) @… https://mastodon.social/@lemay/116360005661294329

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Missy Elliott:
🎵 Work it
#NowPlaying #MissyElliott
https://bigenigma.bandcamp.com/track/missy-elliott-work-it-big-enigma-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3jagJCUbdqhDSPuxP8cAqF

RE: https://datasci.social/@nerdsitu/116535048648476763
Very happy this paper is published! Great deep work led by Clément Sebastiao. We systematically study strategies to grow a transport network step by step - motivated by

if i ever get exposed for having a questionable search history my best and most likely honest excuse will be all my mastodon moderation work... you post some weird links, folks

“I learn by failing, and if the LLM takes that work away from me, I won’t really understand what I’m doing.”
https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.html

The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered "Trump Accounts" for children when they launch this summer (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/business/trump-accounts-bny…

BNY and Robinhood Will Help Run ‘Trump Accounts’ for Children
The new tax-sheltered savings and investment accounts will start accepting deposits this summer.

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

I had always admired James’ work and respected his knowledge. I had the pleasure of working with him only briefly, but we hit it off (I christened him “sibling pastry” when making fun of his “brother cake” handle, and it stuck).
I knew about this through Lloydi and Ricky because James had gone dark late last year.
This makes me sad. It’s a loss for all of us.
From Ricky:

You don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know what to do. You feel powerless. Nothing you can do seems like it could possibly be enough.
And then the work is there, on your doorstep, in your hands, and you •just do it• because that is what you do.
Nobody is coming to save you. The choice is ourselves or nothing. The moment you believe that, that you •know• it in your bones, is the moment the work truly begins.
6/

What are the go-to places for used test and measurement equipment in western Europe? Work is looking to expand one of their other labs and I'm only plugged into the north American refurb scene.

Happy Congress Is Stupid and Doesn't Know How Time Or Energy Work Day to those who celebrate!
#daylightsavingtime

On a dark day, it's nice to be reminded that good people exist.
A true cyber citizen just offered meaningful financial support to Metacurity—and it landed at exactly the right moment.
It’s a reminder that this work resonates, even when it feels like I'm doing it alone. Deeply, deeply grateful.

Meta’s approach to user privacy is under renewed scrutiny
-- following a Swedish report that employees of a Meta subcontractor have watched footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses showing sensitive user content.
The workers reportedly work for Kenya-headquartered Sama and provide data annotation for Ray-Ban Metas.
The authors said that several people interviewed for the report said they have
💥seen footage shot with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that
👉shows peo…

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.

If the USA starts blowing up power plants in Iran I will not be going to work and I will make it clear to my employer that is why.

"Colleges are trying to boost student voting. A Trump probe freezes data for that work" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=155315

GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.
Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a max…

Over the past couple of days I had the pleasure of chatting with a number of sharp undergrads who've applied to work on my project next year as part of the university's research opportunity program. It's been a real pleasure working with the group of four others I already have this academic year (their projects are really coming together!). I'm already looking forward to next year.

Plotting "bryon noem's mammaries" and "Ethel Cain's penis" on a spiritual map visually akin to the work of ley line theorists

Seriously the theme of the next few years are going to be “you can check that, you know. Did you actually check?"
It's going to be tedious. It's going to be super annoying. And it's going to be a good part of what keeps us tethered to conversations that actually work with other people and don't turn into weird factions.

That man is a steady source of profound insights.
Keir Starmer says a lot of work remains to make US-Iran ceasefire hold - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0ve1006g9o

Keir Starmer to visit Middle East after US-Iran ceasefire deal
The prime minister welcomes the deal, saying the UK will do "all we can to support and sustain this ceasefire".

Colleges are trying to boost student voting. A Trump probe freezes data for that work (Hansi Lo Wang/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/08/nx-s1-5725279/college-trump-voting-data-probe-voting-registration
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p14#a260408p14

Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-…

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Slop is not good, actually.
Literally the definition of the word slop is "content that is worthless".
It cannot be good—if it would be good, it wouldn't be worthless and then by definition it's not slop.
Now if you, for example, use LLMs to generate code that actually serves the function you want it to serve (let's say while prototyping something), it's not slop, but perhaps experimental or prototype code.
If it's something you generate for other people like for production code and it's not reviewed, then it's slop—it's worthless _even if it works_ because you don't know if it actually works and didn't take the care or responsibility required to make a work product.

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

I wish I could tell you that all our preparations meant we were ready, that we never despaired, that we knew we would endure. I don’t think any of that is true. I spent much of December and January considering, seriously and vividly considering, that this was the arrival of an authoritarian police state that could outlive me. But I didn’t spend too much •time• considering that — because there was work to be done, work right here, in my lap, and nobody was coming to save us.
4/

This past weekend was no holiday for the cybersecurity world, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Germany names alleged ‘UNKN’ kingpin behind GandCrab and REvil ransomware empire,
--Meta pauses work with Mercor indefinitely following breach,
--N. Ireland education IT system contractor hit by breach,
--First convicted spyware maker dodges jail time,
--N. Korea carried out a six-month op t…

Germany names alleged ‘UNKN’ kingpin behind GandCrab and REvil ransomware empire
Meta pauses work with Mercor indefinitely following breach, N. Ireland education IT system contractor hit by breach, First convicted spyware maker dodges jail time, N. Korea carried out six-month op to steal $270m from Drift, Y Combinator dumps Delve over compliance fabrications, much more

Sources say Julie K. Brown's Epstein work didn't win a Pulitzer in 2018 due to at least one jurist's concerns; this year's citation is seen as a "corrective" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/06/2026

Exclusive: Old news: Why a New York Times editor blocked Epstein Pulitzer
“Not the best entry,” Joe Sexton told Semafor, referencing Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie Brown’s 2018 series that effectively reopened the Epstein investigation.

Republicans could and likely would vote to table any resolution to impeach Trump,
but that would represent a de facto endorsement of whatever war crimes Trump chooses to commit against Iran in the coming days,
and of the global economic fallout for Trump’s humiliating forfeiture of the Strait of Hormuz.
The least-worst way forward for both the U.S. and the world is for the war to end immediately.
That almost certainly can’t happen with an erratic president in offic…

Impeachment As A Referendum On The Iran Fiasco
Getting caught trying to stop Trump will do much more for Democrats' public image than fighting internally over whether to blacklist a podcaster. And, at some point, it might work.

Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI-native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-networking-firm-ari…

Continuing upgrades to the new ngscopeclient CI platform.
In addition to the existing release test builds, we now also do a debug build with asan/ubsan and run tests with sanitizers.
This one caught a couple of memory leaks in test harnesses that I need to troubleshoot (the leak appears to be in the harness, not the scopehal blocks being tested).
We still need a ton more tests to be written, of course. But that's orthogonal to the work on the test harness and infrastruc…

Learn in public. Write and talk about what you learn. Discover it like archaeology even though it's barely six seconds old. Talk to the people who were there before you, and ask them what they were thinking,
Don't take for granted that people are oracles who will tell you what's good or not. That ship sailed long ago with everyone wanting us to make them an app and make them rich while they gave us only ideas and expected us to do the work.
Instead you have to want to learn and show that you're doing it, and be willing to make messes and mistakes and own them. Because if you're just vibing, you won't get it.

Organized some of my voice over work on my Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/david-august/sets/voice-over-selected-work-demo
Perhaps I will make a formal reel at some point.

Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics (AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/0

AMD or Nvidia eGPUs can work on Apple Silicon Macs, but not for graphic acceleration
Apple has signed a driver for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs connected to Apple Silicon but there are some big caveats, and it won't improve your graphics. Here's what they're for.

McClatchy began rolling out a "content scaling agent" that summarizes and repurposes reporters' work with new headlines in Q1, prompting some employee pushback (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

McClatchy Journalists Revolt Against AI: ‘It’s a Betrayal’ | Exclusive
Sacramento Bee staffers refuse bylines over a new AI tool as colleagues at the Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer harbor concerns.

Hantaviruses, which belong to the Bunyavirales order, replicate and transcribe their genome in the cytoplasm of infected cells. So Hantavirus already won’t enter the nucleus, and Ivermectin, an anti-parasite substance, won’t do much of anything to a virus.
“…orthomyxoviruses replicate and transcribe their genome within the cell nucleus, whereas bunyavirus genome replication and transcription occur in the cytoplasm.”

Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/925338/openai-mu…

Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model.

Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown gets a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on the Jeffrey Epstein case, which led to Epstein's arrest in 2019 (Jason Nark/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/julie-brown-pulit…

Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”

Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/03/06/…

“History is a bill we keep dodging. The North won the Civil War, the South won the memory. Reconstruction was left for dead, white terror became law, and Jim Crow swaggered in through the breach. That was a political decision to walk away before the work was finished, to protect comfort over Black lives. America pays interest on cowardice, generation after generation, and the bill never shrinks.”

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde expressed skepticism over the need for euro-pegged stablecoins, saying they could hamper the ECB's work (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ecbs-lagarde-is-sceptical-euro-stab…

Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/ai-joins-the-8-hou…

MediaTek launches the first phase of its Taiwan data center, aimed at R&D, powered by Nvidia's B200 platform, and built on Nvidia's DGX SuperPOD infrastructure (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

MediaTek launches Taiwan's most advanced data center to maintain AI edge
Chipmaker to use Nvidia-powered facility for own research and development work

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying "AI is changing how we work" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/coinbase-cut-about-14-w…

Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-mythos-ai-model-preview-security/

Anthropic debuts preview of powerful new AI model Mythos in new cybersecurity initiative | TechCrunch
The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.