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Eeeks, I got the new notepad! 😨 #Windows #ai

A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad…

Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
Microsoft has lost a lot of executives this year already. The company is reshuffling many of its businesses to meet AI demand.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a Rohingya refugee from Burma,
was nearly blind and spoke no English.
He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home.
His family was not notified of his release.
Police are investigating his death
https://www.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Notepad : Sicherheitsupdate gegen Codeschmuggel-Lücke
https://www…

The Nodfather
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This is for tee hee, not treason: let's leave the extrajudicial killing out of it.
#satire #potus45

Some of you have had the misfortune of having this unpleasant chore… iykyk.

Sonnet 060 - LX
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parall…

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.

Patient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587773/patient-data-changed-as-major-nz-health-app-medimap-hacked

Patient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked
MediMap director says the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and NZ Police have been notified.

Microsoft macht Copilot in Notepad zu Writing Tools
In der Windows-Insider-Vorschauversion von Notepad heißen die KI-Funktionen nun Writing Tools. Zuvor hieß die Funktion Copilot.
https://www.