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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • Banks to offload $15bn of debt for Anthropic data centre backed by Google

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  • We're going to need a popping emoji

  • Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic

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  • Morgan Stanley helped arrange a private-credit vehicle, funded by outside investors, that buys the chips and leases them to Anthropic in an adaptation of the vendor-financing model Boeing and GE built to sell aircraft and engines.

    In June, the first tranche of TPU hardware passed from Google through Broadcom into this financing blender. A special-purpose vehicle known as Compute SPV paid $35bn for roughly 1GW of the AI hardware, representing around 1mn TPUs, according to people familiar with the matter.

    The SPV’s cash came from three tranches of debt anchored by Apollo and Blackstone. Broadcom, in effect, guaranteed the two senior tranches by agreeing to cover any shortfall if Anthropic stopped paying and the SPV could not sell the hardware for enough to make the senior investors whole.

    I don't know what the hell is going on here but it reeks of shell companies and Enron and meltdowns.

  • AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

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  • That sounds plausible but is in direct contradiction to the contents of the article.

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    AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

    www.theregister.com /security/2026/07/28/ai-found-bugs-arent-proving-any-easier-to-exploit-despite-the-hype/5279637
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    Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

    techcrunch.com /2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/

  • LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

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  • If I discovered that 42% of the apps in my app store were malware trojans I'd be closing the whole thing down until I sort my shit out.

  • OpenAI falling short of their ad revenue projections by 90%

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  • The 100 bn is "by 2030". I guess their interim target for this year is much less than 100. Maybe the target is $10 billion and they achieved $1 billion.

  • OpenAI falling short of their ad revenue projections by 90%

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  • It's "get a new business model"

  • Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding

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    OpenAI falling short of their ad revenue projections by 90%

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/openai-ad-revenue-ai-advertising-financial-projection
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    Chrome adds global keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + G, in any app) to launch Gemini

    mastodon.online /@mwichary/116952836351215165
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    The history of encrypted email

    computer.rip /2026-07-19-email-encryption.html
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    DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns

  • Here's how I host my own AIM server

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  • I followed Veronica down this rabbit hole. The server part was beautifully easy.

    But sadly, there are no Linux AIM clients - pidgin dropped AIM support 8 years ago.

    I compiled an 8 year old version of pidgin from source and it ran but seems hardcoded to point to AIM's official servers (which no longer exist).

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    Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

    krebsonsecurity.com /2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/
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    Hundreds of economists say 'we must act now' on AI’s economic impact

    apnews.com /article/ai-must-act-now-job-displacement-783469467e0df1463df44518f33295ee

  • Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

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  • They're so desperate.

  • A leaked Microsoft experiment reveals a new OS built entirely around Copilot and AI agents

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  • Windows, as a React app running as a PWA, inside Edge.

    I really really hope they do this because it would be the end of the company.

  • Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected

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  • You probably didn't intend to set the language on this post to Polski...

  • Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI

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  • The company's stock is down more than 40 percent in the last month.

    iiiinteresting

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    She beat 261 applicants for the job. She wasn't real

    www.hcamag.com /nz/news/general/she-beat-261-applicants-for-the-job-she-wasnt-real/578320
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    DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% as AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production

    www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/dram/ddr2-memory-prices-jump-up-to-60-percent

  • Google will make apps in the Play store available on other stores too

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  • Google has gone so far from "don't be evil" that they're dead to me either way.

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    Google will make apps in the Play store available on other stores too

  • Gen Z turn to ‘dopamine sites’ for quick comfort

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  • lol so bleak

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    Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT

    apnews.com /article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f
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    Americans lost nearly $900 million to AI-powered scams, FBI says

    www.malwarebytes.com /blog/scams/2026/06/americans-lost-nearly-900-million-to-ai-powered-scams-fbi-says
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    'What a joke': Github Copilot's new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs

    techcrunch.com /2026/05/30/what-a-joke-github-copilots-new-token-based-billing-spurs-consternation-among-devs/
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    Hackers are using AI to find security flaws no scanner can catch, Google warns

    www.euronews.com /next/2026/05/27/hackers-are-using-ai-to-find-security-flaws-no-scanner-can-catch-google-warns
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    AI assistants can sway writers’ attitudes, even when they’re watching for bias

    news.cornell.edu /stories/2026/03/ai-assistants-can-sway-writers-attitudes-even-when-theyre-watching-bias

  • The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill

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  • The sheer volume of engagement leads to obvious mistakes. One assistant thoughtlessly commented “Huge win” on a post commemorating the September 11 attacks.

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    The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill

    restofworld.org /2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/
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    Digg tries again, this time as an aggregator of news about AI

    di.gg /ai
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    The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy)

    www.404media.co /the-ai-compute-crunch-is-here-and-its-affecting-the-entire-economy/

  • Mastodon has been awarded a €614k service agreement

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  • This addresses some really difficult and long-standing problems and I really look forward to seeing the result.

    I've had my eye on FIRES for some time and this funding will take it from fringe niche thing to the big time.

  • South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

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  • unlimited downloads at just 400 kbps after their data allowances expire.

    Well they did say BASIC mobile data...

  • Iran Faces US Wrath, But 5,000 Sailors On USS Ford Face 650 Failing Toilets

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  • It's weird because USA has 11 aircraft carriers, easily enough to rotate their usage.

  • House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails

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  • Sadly they'll just think it's the federal govt doing the spraying that's why they ignore state laws.