Do you think they post this announcement in a "blog" to temper the impact of a "press release"? Potential #privacy concerns as Oracle #AI will have access to data of US citizens collected by federal agencies? blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infras...

Trying to imagine the looks on the faces of the people I worked with at Google in 2018 if you’d told them that in 7 years their flagship product would be sending users to commit terrorism at airports and that no one will do anything about it

Lawsuit alleges Google's Gemini guided man to consider 'mass casualty' event before suicide www.sfgate.com/business/art...

Late night ramble ... I've been writing software since it was punch cards. In that time have had every title including CEO except for marketing. Still write Open Source code. All that said I fear for the millions of tech people the colleges have cranked-out and made us a commodity against AI.

Considering AI is infamous as an almost universal antagonist to #privacy across all industries and datasets, what are the new privacy concerns inherent in this framework shift? Any #AI #ethicist, privacy advocate, or #iOS #developer please weigh in! 9to5mac.com/2026/03/01/a...

The clock is ticking! Goodreads is doing a giveaway for Privacy's Defender, a novel from EFF's Cindy Cohn that gives insight into the most pivotal legal disputes that shaped the Internet. You have 8 days to enter and get the chance to win a free copy! www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Another reason for us to be thankful for #AI and big data centers! They get first pick of the best resources from #water to memory. #RAMpocalypse www.gamesradar.com/hardware/des...

Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt' by the end of 2026 thanks to the #RAMpocalypse, Phison CEO reportedly says buff.ly/5aH2H5W #news #tech #technology #AI #openai #grok #aislop #nvidia

We just launched the Open Source Endowment, the first endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers, with $693,000 raised already. The world depends on Open Source, but making our ecosystem sustainable is a complex task. I hope that, with community consultation, the Endowment can help 🙏

Back from a two-week break! Low End Mac has a new Tech Spec article. lowendmac.com/2026/apple-a...

This mind-bending relativity illusion has never been seen—until now. Using ultrafast lasers and a 300-picosecond camera, researchers at the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology visualized the rotating Terrell-Penrose effect, an effect of special relativity.

The @npmx.dev plugin for VSCode / Cursor is such a time saver! 1-click path to the git repo and to the enriched package details view on npmx.dev 🙏 github.com/npmx-dev/vsc...

🐢 Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island after nearly 200 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state." I was so happy when I learned about state transitions in Physics. 🙃 Don't think I was wearing bunny slippers that day.

And it is JUST THAT SIMPLE to accommodate #accessibility. It really doesn't have to be a great and mighty battle. One person decides to be a good human and make another person's day easier. Done. #Communication #ASL It can be built in to #code and #UX too. #Design for #a11y

The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier. They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964. #WomenInSTEM

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

I'll just post this here. #Security analysts might want to attempt to patch these. Individuals with other proclivities might be inspired. 🤷‍♀️ #DataPoisoning #LLM #AI #Privacy Also: "inferring forward" AKA #extrapolation youtu.be/AJf4SNuDnoI

With data centers expected to become the largest source of electricity demand in the Pacific Northwest, Washington legislators are pressing ahead with a bill aimed at protecting the grid and offsetting potential hikes for utility ratepayers. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/11/h...

🔥 Hot Repo！ 🔥 (100+ new stars) 📦 cjpais / Handy ⭐ 14,151 (+148) 🗒 TypeScript A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

Croak pioneered advancements in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology (including US Patent No. 7,599,359), laying the essential groundwork for current audio and video conferencing tools such as Zoom, FaceTime, and WhatsApp. She holds over 200 patents. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech #engineering

Dr. Patricia Bath & Marian Croak were the first two Black women inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2022. Bath saved the sight of millions with her Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment. Croak did pioneering work in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. #WomenInSTEM #BHM

#Random Thought For the Day: Are #octopods #aliens? octopus.org.nz/content/dna-...

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Excluded from most popular accounts of the #womensmovement due to her forward thinking views on human rights, Matilda Joslyn Gage is a fascinating figure in American #history. Join us this Wednesday for our #WomensHistoryMonth event "The Wonderful Woman Behind Oz." www.salemwitchmuseum.com/events

Decrease in job satisfaction seems logical. Looking forward to this one.

TikTok Alternative 'Skylight' Soars To 380K+ Users After TikTok US Deal Finalized https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/27/0036229/tiktok-alternative-skylight-soars-to-380k-users-after-tiktok-us-deal-finalized?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Often there's a better way to write your code than using break in a loop. Read more 👉 https://trey.io/xtql6h #Python

Today it occurred to me to wonder if those Photo Challenges that specify posting previously unposted photographs are a new way to expose and harvest previously unavailable original content for various hungry #AI engines to consume. Argument could sadly be made for every #photoChallenge. 🤐🤦‍♀️🫣

@eff.org can we get more size runs for: shop.eff.org/cdn/shop/pro... pretty please?

This looks like an interesting minimal distraction option, probably particularly appealing to certain #neurodiverse, #neurodivergent, or #neurospicy readers. #Privacy #RSS #Blogs

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While the phrase “agentic commerce” may sound like aspirational marketing jargon, the tools are already here, and people are apparently using them, much to eBay's chagrin.

There is a lively conversation here about #AI in #education and #environmental impacts and #energy use. A little bit of the rabble-rouser contingent, but also some cogent anti-AI talking points. Consider that AI data centers may be granted priority access to resources humans need to survive. #Water

Cursor and Windsurf are transitioning to self-developed AI models, reducing dependence on external vendors. #ai

Understand Lambda Functions with Easy Programs youtu.be/A2d5eKBZTZA

🐍 Using Pandas and #Python to Explore Your Dataset 📰

Results from a survey of 1,750 AI-using tech workers: • 55% say AI beat expectations; ~70% say their work quality’s up. • >50% save at least ½ day/week. • PMs get most value from AI help with PRDs (21.5%), mockups (19.8%), comms (18.5%). • 92.4% report at least one significant downside of AI

Imagine how much progress we could make if our profession wasn't expected to reinvent software engineering from scratch every 5 years.

that sound you hear is thousands of home networks crying out and then suddenly ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

I keep thinking about this and also how there's a massive delay in terms of peer review, and as someone without a FT/TT position who does not use AI to write my papers but has six (maybe seven?) pending pieces...it's really frustrating. It's levels of austerity/capitalism.

A really interesting assessment on how and why #AI is not necessarily a helpful tool for #Women. Not just in the workplace but also as a new agonist for misogyny, reinforcing some destructive ideas and patterns. #WomenInSTEM open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...

This kind of experience is necessary and can be informative, transformative or fundamentally encouraging for #YoungWomen #Leadership #Empowerment #SheCan youtu.be/o2vjNLnzKKk

Look forward to reading 'You Stand on Her Shoulders: 50 Women Inventors and Pioneers the Patriarchy Doesn’t Want You to Know About' by Olivia Starling herwiki.org/you-stand-on... #Books #BookSky #AdmirableWomen #PioneeringWomen

Just entered the magical flow state where the code writes itself and bugs flee in terror 🤩 ​Just kidding... I spent 45 minutes hunting a bug. Such is the life of an indie dev - coffee and debating whether it's me or the engine that is broken 😂 #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #programming #devlife

On October 7, join Chloé Messdaghi and top #security professionals, software engineers, developers, data scientists, and #AI specialists as they share practical insights, real-world experiences, and emerging trends to address the full spectrum of AI security. Save your spot: bit.ly/429cviO

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @danr.bsky.social on advancing the Array.prototype.pushAll proposal to Stage 1 today at TC39 🎉 It lets you append many items into an existing array without running out of stack memory 👍 ❌ Risky: arr.push(...veryBigArray) ✅ Safe: arr.pushAll(veryBigArray)

🧪 Thinking of using fetch() streams to track upload/download progress? @jakearchibald.com shares more, and how could limit future browser optimizations. ✅ Streams = Great for parallel processing ❌ Streams ≠ Reliable for measuring up/down % Read more 👇 jakearchibald.com/2025/fetch-...

Substack's Use of #AI report from July. Some interesting #insights here. Notably, AI assistants can offer #neurodivergent folks tools to confidently interact with others in more #neurotypical styles. Also note the #age of those using AI may not be what you'd expect. substack.com/inbox/post/1...