@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-27 11:10:40
Taiwanese prosecutors search Intel VP Lo Wen-jen's homes days after TSMC alleged he leaked sensitive info, suggesting the government is deepening its probe (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-27/ex-…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 15:30:16
The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-26 15:52:40
Dallas Cowboys Assistant Unfazed Despite Legitimate Interest From Titans https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-assistant-unfazed-despite-legitimate-interest-titans
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-28 02:11:52
How Trump Officials
—Noem, Miller, Patel
—Portrayed Pretti As Violent
Despite Conflicting Evidence
In trying to defend the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday,
Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to portray him as a violent domestic terrorist
—even an “assassin”
—running counter to emerging video evidence and first-person accounts of the deadly encounter.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed after Pretti’s death he had
“vio…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-27 18:40:55
19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer (Laura Romero/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-college-student-deported-despite-judges-order/story?id=127914941
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p40#a251127p40
@hippyjo@c.im2025-12-26 07:38:57
India continues to support Russia's genocide in Ukraine by buying sanctioned oil.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/25/indias-top-refiner-quietly-returns-to-russian-oil-with-shadowed-supply-route-d…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-11-27 14:00:01
"Why hosting the UN climate summit in the Amazon was so important, despite the disappointing outcome"
#UN #UnitedNations #ClimateSummit
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-27 16:41:20
A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts for 98% of Vietnam's electronics exports, "signaling limited technology spillovers" to the local economy (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-27 16:30:44
Trump says midterm elections will be 'about pricing' despite calling affordability a 'dead' issue (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/4362763/trump-midterm-elections-pricing-despite-calling-affordability-dead-issue/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p22#a251227p22
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-26 14:07:09
Cowboys RB Malik Davis' career day came despite gnarly eye injury https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-malik-davis-career-day-despite-gnarly-eye-injury