Friend is leaning hard into “all press is good press” and it shows. I’ve heard an interview with at least one tech reviewer who tried this thing out and, unsurprisingly, it was absolute garbage.
I’ve never heard of this used anywhere else, but take that with a grain of salt
I’m not always proud of Americans, but there clearly are still some heroes out there. Like the king of all Florida men:
One man in Florida sits in a lawn chair holding up a piece of cardboard on a pole to block the camera’s view.
Better title: “make sure you’re on the official website when you’re trying to download software, even if you’ve used it before”.
The list includes widely used tools like PowerToys, CrystalDiskMark, EasyBCD, Lively Wallpaper, and Wintoys, all cloned onto lookalike domains that in most cases rank above the real project pages on Google.
Off the top of my head, I wouldn’t know the right domain to download CrystalDiskMark or EasyBCD, for example. It doesn’t sound like these clones are perfect replicas, but a convincingly close enough domain name with the same page contents might fool a ton of people
That’s a load-bearing “plus” there.
These accusations are extremely uncharitable. Trump’s dismantling of clean energy is an entirely different topic, and Grist has published multiple articles on it.
But even ignoring all that, the article literally addresses this:
The national increase in power sector emissions represents the reversal of a longstanding trend. Before the AI boom, U.S. power consumption had been flat for decades . Utilities, grid operators, and energy planners had assumed that pattern would continue, and many planned to retire their older and dirtier coal plants with the expectation that natural gas and renewables could replace them. Instead, electricity demand is rising much faster than anticipated. Data centers could make up more than 10 percent of U.S. electricity usage by 2030, and they operate around the clock, including when wind and solar farm output is low .
GristNative families were promised free solar. Trump took it away.From elders struggling with high electric bills to lost economic development opportunities, Trump’s gutting of Solar for All is felt by residents of northern Plains reservations.It looks like the open source project is dead and Google has transferred only some of the researchers to a for-profit pharmaceutical-to-be company.
This company appears to have gotten $600 million thanks to Jared Kushner’s brother back in 2025
You can choose not to participate in this platform, or in these topics. You can even use a client to ignore them entirely.
Still could have skipped the broken glass and fire. Now they just have 8 guys who feel more bulletproof than they really are.
(Not that I’m complaining…)
The artist behind the images, Jonny Sheridan, described them as exploring the “perils of AI”. “Concerns about AI alignment with human values, the impact on employment and fears about the end of humanity are addressed.”
“My AI-generated graphics have people asking a lot of questions already answered by my AI-generated graphics.” (They really aren’t.)
Interesting to note that the AI graphics supposedly about misogyny were generated by a very defensive man, and the first critic in the article - who gets her face posted alongside it -is a woman. Very strange.
The Linux Foundation isn’t Linux per se, but it funds a lot of the development. And they are funded the most by Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle. And the best known Linux Foundation funded developer, Linus Torvalds, is an AI pusher himself now.
So that might be why they signed on.
www.linuxfoundation.orgMembers of the Linux FoundationLinux Foundation members help support the development of shared technology resources while accelerating their own innovation through open source.We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges. We used AI to learn how to do this. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we use and the distance we need to jump and so on and it gave us steps on what we have to do. We practiced a lot and kept asking questions. We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process.
Good call, AI.
Meta enlisted cricketer Virat Kohli and a roster of content creators to promote its Gen 2 version of the glasses aimed at affluent Indians.
And it turns out affluent Indians behave the exact same as affluent Americans that go around like creeps to record people. In this case, it was to effectively mock and dox them. And it clearly worked, because the influencer gets to hide behind a pseudonym in the article, while the trans person does not.
ETBrandEquity.comVirat Kohli to be the face for Oakley Meta performance AI GlassesDiscover how cricketer Virat Kohli partners with Oakley and Meta to revolutionize training with AI-powered glasses, enhancing athletic performance and insights.Really? Because the more I look at it, the worse it gets!
By contrast, unlawful efforts to extract value from closed models raise legitimate concerns. Those concerns should be addressed through targeted legal and commercial frameworks rather than sweeping restrictions on techniques that play an important role in AI innovation.
That bold part describes corporate capture. Mandatory “frameworks” for the companies that can afford to build them out.
And the nationalism is all over. Just Ctrl+F “America”. Here is Mozilla telling the government to put AI in classrooms:
America wins the AI era by diffusing it into the workflows of factories, hospitals, farms, classrooms, and main street businesses.
And here is the America First part a bit louder in case you missed it the first time:
The age of AI can be one of prosperity. With the right choices, open weight AI can expand opportunity, strengthen competition, extend American technological leadership…
I’m not familiar with how this federation is supposed to work specifically, but does that mean in theory that you could still contribute to projects that do contain cryptocurrency through a Codeberg account?
I see Gadget Review pop up more and more and I’ve started liking their content less and less. The editorial guidelines say they use AI right on the page you linked. And if I scroll down and click on a random article , it’s AI generated and based on a tweet by CSAM poster Dom Lucre. It’s not the first article I’ve seen that’s basically repeating a tweet from some extreme looking Twitter account either.
Gadget ReviewBear Spotted on Top of a Power Pole in New Mexico – Here's What HappenedNew Mexico bear electrocuted on a live utility pole after 911 told a caller to wait, exposing a gap between wildlife and utility emergency protocols.And Mozilla and Palantir and the Linux Foundation.
This entire letter is rancid. “Governments, invest in us!”
Policymakers have an important opportunity to act. This includes expanding access to compute for startups and researchers, investing in shared training assets (datasets, tools, evaluation frameworks)…
Mandatory “distillation is good when we do it but evil when foreigners do it”. Good job Mozilla, my favorite “internet is for everyone” company, sinking into nationalism!
Distillation… reflects a long tradition of learning from, building upon, and improving existing technologies, a tradition that has helped drive innovation since the rise of the open-source software movement. By contrast, unlawful efforts to extract value from closed models raise legitimate concerns .
Full list:
AxiosExclusive: "Little Tech" launches new policy coalitionA new group focused on boosting "Little Tech" has launched.Ironically, if you visit this site, you’ll be hit with a “please disable JavaScript” message at the top. Seems the author understands “their platform, their rules”.
They also make some okay points and concessions, before making a terrible suggestion for what Codeberg should do. Apparently they think Codeberg needs to be more soapbox-y, not less.
I think Codeberg made a misstep, but this suggestion is somehow worse.
Jack Dorsey has recently gone full Crypto Bro and this is one of his latest projects. This one is designed to connect people based on their physical location (it’s very strange, you can enter groups based on an arbitrary grid that basically overlays a world map) and on its face this seems like a double edged sword at best.
That’s because it’s from Gadget Review, a website that looks like it uses AI to generate graphics and (at least) augment its articles.
The original article is at least helpfully linked at the top:
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding
Edit: I see Gadget Review pop up more and more and I’ve started liking their content less and less. The editorial guidelines say they use AI right on the page you linked. And if I scroll down and click on a random article , it’s AI generated and based on a tweet by CSAM poster Dom Lucre. It’s not the first article I’ve seen that’s basically repeating a tweet from some extreme looking Twitter account either.
Nikkei AsiaFive US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI fundingData center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study showsOr “Meta Superintelligence safety director”?
(To be clear: screw the director for insisting a bot and not their own stupidity for “terrifying” anybody)
Fast Company'This should terrify you': Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emailsOpenClaw nearly wiped out the AI alignment employee's entire inbox, in an incident that social media is calling ironic.