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Sticky: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st November 2026 (awful.systems) 49 BlueMonday1984 13 »
GDLS to bring natural language control to Abrams tanks and next-generation combat vehicles (defence-industry.eu) 5 supersquirrel 6 »
Anthropic AI safety bill: let us kill 50 people — but not 51 (pivot-to-ai.com) 2 David Gerard 53 »
Microslop Says Its New AI Is Better at Diagnosing Patients [NOPE, *AI pretending to be Patients*] Than Real Doctors (futurism.com) 5 supersquirrel 44 »
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Says She Used AI to Identify What's Special About Her Daughter (futurism.com) 7 supersquirrel 52 »
Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits (www.theguardian.com) 2 samvines 31 »
Omarchy on the FreeBSD kernel brought to you by a FreeBSD co-founder (github.com) 1 Sonnenblume 14 »
From OSS to Open Source AI: an Exploratory Study of Collaborative Development Paradigm Divergence | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (dl.acm.org) 0 supersquirrel 3 »
"We copied a summary of the article instead of the full text" - hostile UI design blocking quoting of an article I am trying to share with others (www.airdatanews.com) 17 supersquirrel 49 »
The University’s Soul Has Been Uploaded | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org) 0 supersquirrel 15 »
We put human neurons into a computer! AI will surely follow (pivot-to-ai.com) 1 David Gerard 16 »
Prix Pascal: New French literature prize launched for books co-written with AI (www.euronews.com) 2 supersquirrel 5 »
AI: EU Member States approve “digital expropriation” for AI companies (noyb.eu) 4 adoptivecactuar 29 »
Sharp drops for AI stocks overwhelm markets worldwide as oil prices jump (www.theguardian.com) 1 supersquirrel 86 »
a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier as crypto investing loses prominence | Межа (mezha.net) 2 supersquirrel 9 »
Nobel-Winning Computer Scientist Says AI Has Become Conscious: "We're Toast" [nope] (futurism.com) 49 supersquirrel 22 »
AI will HACK ALL THE TVs by the end of 2026! Or not (pivot-to-ai.com) 1 David Gerard 10 »
The Wall Street Journal’s new AI tool, “Doppler,” forecasts the issues that will shape the midterm elections (www.niemanlab.org) 0 supersquirrel 7 »
Iran threatens to strike oil and AI facilities across Gulf if US and Israel renew attacks (www.theguardian.com) 5 supersquirrel 46 »
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre (www.theguardian.com) 0 supersquirrel 32 »
I've got a memoir full of TechTakes. Including a college and a publisher everyone here knows about! (awful.systems) 2 Crowgirl 3 »
Merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a "good idea," Musk says (arstechnica.com) 5 supersquirrel 15 »
Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision (www.theregister.com) 6 supersquirrel 19 »
Microslop admits that Always On VPN problems were not fixed in the October Security Update (www.theregister.com) 0 supersquirrel 35 »
AI’s epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams (www.theregister.com) 0 supersquirrel 14 »
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