Axel Springer's Telegraph begins layoffs, pledging to become an "AI-powered" global business; sources: up to 100 jobs will go, with culture and sports hit hard (Esther Addley/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20…
What the actual hell? Even corporate America shuts off IT access at termination. Police agencies can't figure this out? #FlockAbuse #Deflock
OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-signal-chats-that-cost-openai-re…
Microsoft has launched a call for proposals called, honest to god, "AI and Jobs: Designing for Augmented Work." Setting aside the usual puke-inspiring AI garbage that's all over the call, who the hell wants "augmented" work? Could we have reduced work instead?
Nothing in the humanities academe is simultaneously so awe-inspiring and dispiriting as going through applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. What a profoundly broken world in which none of these people have permanent jobs.
Protect and serve ... who exactly?
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013541/a-woman-was-arrested-in-philly-for-blocking-a-delivery-robot
UK’s “Digital and Technologies Jobs Plan”
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-and-technologies-jobs-plan/digital-and-technologies-jobs-plan
During my quiet evening contemplation, I begin thinking about the bogus CA and PHP vulnerabilities crises this week.
Sure is a great week to be between jobs!
Wenn es so weitergeht wie bisher, fordert die deutsche Autoindustrie ab 2029 eine Verbrennerpflicht für Neuwagen ab 2035.
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/lockerung-verbrenner-aus-was-bedeutet-autofahrer-jobs-zulieferer-industrie-104.html