Fabrizio Bartoloni
@bartoloni.bsky.social
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Tech consultant & former IT journalist. QuoraIT Top Writer 2019, 2022. 日本語。
Google has suddenly confirmed privacy initiatives “are being phased out.” The Privacy Sandbox, now in its sixth year, has essentially ended just months after Google confirmed tracking is here to stay and there are no viable alternatives.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
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‘Phased Out’—Google Confirms Bad News For All 3 Billion Chrome Users
Is it time to quit the world’s most popular browser as privacy nightmare comes true?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/18/phased-out-google-confirms-bad-news-for-all-3-billion-chrome-users/
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Andrea Bartz was disturbed to learn that her books had been used to train A.I. chatbots. So she sued, and helped win the largest copyright settlement in history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
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The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/books/review/andrea-bartz-anthropic-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q08.9gGY.VUoBwhAl2AYm
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Poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears.
slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
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Anthropic Says It's Trivially Easy To Poison LLMs Into Spitting Out Gibberish - Slashdot
Anthropic researchers, working with the UK AI Security Institute, found that poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00...
https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/220220/anthropic-says-its-trivially-easy-to-poison-llms-into-spitting-out-gibberish
9 days ago
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Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/will-ai-trap-you-in-the-permanent-underclass
11 days ago
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PETpeeve a Commodore PET CBM 8296 Demo by Rabenauge + Plush +Crest at deadline 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-rS...
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PETpeeve a Commodore PET CBM 8296 Demo by Rabenauge + Plush +Crest at deadline 2025
YouTube video by Bodo Hinueber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-rSLl-Nl0A
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Your chats with Meta AI will start affecting what ads you see on Facebook and Instagram. And no, you can't opt out.
www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...
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Talking to Meta AI will change your ads, whether you like it or not.
And no, you can't opt out
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/your-chats-with-meta-ai-will-start-affecting-what-ads-you-see-on-facebook-and-instagram
17 days ago
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"As of 2024, over a third of women under 40 have received unsolicited sexual photos from someone who was not a dating, romantic, or sexual partner, YouGov reported. "
mashable.com/article/dati...
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Dating app Hily will now ask whether you want to see nudes
Hily launches Consent Guard, a notification pop-up asking whether a user wants to see a match's explicit message.
https://mashable.com/article/dating-app-hily-will-now-ask-whether-you-want-to-see-nudes
18 days ago
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The Rise of Technofascists Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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The Rise of Technofascists
Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/10/the-david-frum-show-sam-harris/684424/
18 days ago
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The current war on science, and who’s behind it
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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The current war on science, and who’s behind it
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/who-should-we-blame-for-the-current-war-on-science/
21 days ago
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Investigating a forged PDF
mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html
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Capisco che per molti qui a Bolzano l'italiano sia lingua straniera ma il cartello "Petto Busto Diavola" al Despar, suppongo calco da TeufelsHähnchen Brust per intendere il petto di pollo alla diavola, non si può vedere.
25 days ago
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AI firm DeepSeek writes less-secure code for groups China disfavors
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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AI firm DeepSeek writes less-secure code for groups China disfavors
Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country’s leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/16/deepseek-ai-security/
about 1 month ago
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After centuries of trying, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour
aeon.co/videos/after...
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After centuries of trying, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour | Aeon Videos
From Newton’s circle to Schrödinger’s curved geometry, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour
https://aeon.co/videos/after-centuries-of-trying-weve-yet-to-arrive-at-a-perfect-way-to-map-colour
about 1 month ago
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Vibe Coding Has Turned Senior Devs Into 'AI Babysitters'
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...
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Vibe Coding Has Turned Senior Devs Into 'AI Babysitters' - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded. Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly wor...
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/2056250/vibe-coding-has-turned-senior-devs-into-ai-babysitters
about 1 month ago
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The $1 Billion AI Training Scam: Why Retraining Won’t Save Your Job
ai.gopubby.com/the-1-billio...
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The $1 Billion AI Training Scam: Why Retraining Won’t Save Your Job
How companies profit from both eliminating jobs and selling false hope to displaced workers
https://ai.gopubby.com/the-1-billion-ai-training-scam-why-retraining-wont-save-your-job-2a3460323b6d
about 1 month ago
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The AI bubble fears are getting worse. Wall Street doesn't want to talk about it Wall Street finds itself caught between optimism and anxiety, deploying different vocabularies depending on which side of the ledger it's addressing
qz.com/ai-boom-bubb...
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AI bubble fears get worse. Wall Street plays it cool
Wall Street finds itself caught between optimism and anxiety, deploying different vocabularies depending on which side of the ledger it's addressing
https://qz.com/ai-boom-bubble-fears
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How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
about 1 month ago
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Why Bitcoin Won’t Save You From Tyranny, Inflation, or Market Collapse:
hackernoon.com/why-bitcoin-...
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Why Bitcoin Won’t Save You From Tyranny, Inflation, or Market Collapse | HackerNoon
Bitcoin isn’t a safe haven, inflation hedge, or libertarian dream. Here’s why its foundations are fragile and its myths don’t hold up.
https://hackernoon.com/why-bitcoin-wont-save-you-from-tyranny-inflation-or-market-collapse
about 2 months ago
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"
#SiliconValley
is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms [...] The group hopes to mirror its approach on pro-
#crypto
super-PAC network Fairshake, which helped cement a victory for Donald Trump.":
techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/s...
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Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms | TechCrunch
The new pro-AI super-PAC network dubbed Leading the Future aims to use campaign donations and digital ads to advocate for favorable AI regulation and oppose candidates that the group thinks will stifl...
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/silicon-valley-is-pouring-millions-into-pro-ai-pacs-to-sway-midterms/
about 2 months ago
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"The next unicorn might not hire anyone. The zero-workforce startup is no longer science fiction" - stopping paying workers was the plan all along:
thenextweb.com/news/rise-of...
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The next unicorn might not hire anyone
As AI rapidly replaces workers, the zero-workforce startup is nearing reality. The prospect is dividing tech — and alarming employees.
https://thenextweb.com/news/rise-of-zero-workforce-startups
about 2 months ago
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Meta downloaded 2.000 porn movies illegally via BitTorrent to train “Movie Gen,” its large language model (LLaMA) & now faces a $359 million copyright lawsuit from 2 adult film companies. That's the company holding yours & your children's data. See why I have no WhatsApp:
thetake.net/2025/08/22/m...
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Meta Faces Copyright Lawsuit from Adult Film Companies | theTAKE
Two adult film companies have filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging that the tech giant illegally downloaded more than 2,000 adult films to train its
https://thetake.net/2025/08/22/meta-faces-copyright-lawsuit-from-adult-film-companies/
about 2 months ago
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#LibreOffice
25.8 is out with faster performances (Writer and Calc open files up to 30% faster), support for exporting PDF 2.0, a new application-wide Viewer mode, support for embedded fonts in PPTX files, new Calc functions and much more:
wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes...
2 months ago
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Google will pay $30M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated kids' privacy on YouTube by collecting data without parental consent for targeted ads
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Google settles YouTube children's privacy lawsuit
Google will pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of children using YouTube by collecting their personal information without parental consent, and using it to send targeted ads.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-settles-youtube-childrens-privacy-lawsuit-2025-08-19/
2 months ago
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Fabrizio Bartoloni
ransomNews
2 months ago
⚠️ Massive PayPal credential dump alleged A threat actor named Chucky_BF is offering 15.8M plaintext
#PayPal
logins (emails, passwords & URLs) in a 1.1 GB dump, likely sourced via
#infostealer
malware. Buyers could exploit it for credential stuffing, phishing or fraud.
#ransomNews
#DataLeak
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How AI Reinforces State Power on Indigenous Lands. Artificial intelligence is not neutral. In public safety, policing, border patrol, and social services, AI systems reproduce long-standing patterns of colonial control:
ai.gopubby.com/ais-colonial...
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https://ai.gopubby.com/ais-colonial-code-c896aba688a8
2 months ago
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Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam.
Alex Rivlin was tackling a last-minute task for his European vacation. That’s how he got snagged in an artificial intelligence-enabled scam. Rivlin, who runs a real estate company in Las Vegas, needed...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-ai-pointed-him-customer-185643548.html
2 months ago
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Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every move. A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Column | Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every move
A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/07/instagram-map-location-sharing-privacy/
2 months ago
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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
2 months ago
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Vibe-coding your profession into irrelevance
www.osnews.com/story/142956...
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Vibe-coding your profession into irrelevance – OSnews
https://www.osnews.com/story/142956/vibe-coding-yourself-into-irrelevance/
3 months ago
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I'm not saying AI steals BUT... this image I've generated with a lengthy prompt has a damn copyright symbol, a name and a year of release in the bottom right corner, FFS!
3 months ago
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Apple is ruining the open web deliberately obstructing any genuine opportunity for rival browser engines to operate on its iOS platform within the EU:
victorwynne.com/apple-open-w...
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Apple is ruining the open web · Victor Wynne
Apple is defying the EU’s Digital Markets Act by blocking rival browser engines on iOS, protecting Safari’s immense profits. The result is the company ruining the open web.
https://victorwynne.com/apple-open-web/
3 months ago
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Study: using “AI” slows developers down significantly. When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues:
www.osnews.com/story/142755...
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Study: using “AI” slows developers down significantly – OSnews
https://www.osnews.com/story/142755/study-using-ai-slows-developers-down-significantly/
3 months ago
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"Why I'm Dialing Back My LLM Usage":
zed.dev/blog/dialing...
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Why I'm Dialing Back My LLM Usage - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Alberto Fortin shares his honest reflection on the reality of using LLMs in production code and why he's taking a more measured approach.
https://zed.dev/blog/dialing-back-my-llm-usage-with-alberto-fortin
4 months ago
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German data protection official wants Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores
techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/g...
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German data protection official wants Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country's app stores | TechCrunch
Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores, saying the company transfers users' data to China illegally.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/germany-tells-apple-google-to-remove-deepseek-from-the-countrys-app-stores/
4 months ago
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This portal verifies whether certain software are FOSS, as they claim or appear to, or not. Some prominent non-FOSS listed are MongoDB, N8n, Tuta Mail:
isitreallyfoss.com/projects/
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Is it really foss?
https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/
4 months ago
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In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if “technological innovation or automation”, like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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New York State Updates WARN Notices to Identify Layoffs Tied to AI
Analyzing trends in leadership, management and the art of career building.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-12/new-york-state-updates-warn-notices-to-identify-layoffs-tied-to-ai
4 months ago
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My 2 cents on Apple's deprecation of
#SceneKit
at WWDC25:
www.linkedin.com/posts/fabriz...
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Bring your SceneKit project to RealityKit - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple… | Fabrizio Bartoloni
ICYM: Apple announced at WWDC25 it deprecated #SceneKit across all its platforms in favor of #RealityKit. This shouldn't be big news to anyone closely following the matter over the last few years,...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fabriziobartoloni_bring-your-scenekit-project-to-realitykit-activity-7338217901641859073-_o4w?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEkCr0B1xVdgogYpe8sfJzmcEHh2yVRZOc
4 months ago
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Klarna CEO warns AI may cause a recession as the technology comes for white-collar jobs
www.businessinsider.com/klarna-ceo-a...
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Klarna CEO warns AI may cause a recession as the technology comes for white-collar jobs
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski previously said its AI assistant was already doing the work of 700 full-time customer service agents.
https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-ceo-ai-may-cause-recession-white-collar-jobs-threat-2025-6
4 months ago
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Bulgaria wins.
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www.indiatoday.in/technology/n...
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Builder.ai used 700 engineers in India for coding work it marketed as AI-powered, after hype now goes bust
The startup that made a great song and dance about AI and its in-house virtual assistant Natasha to “make building an app so easy, anyone can do it” was apparently outsourcing its job to an office in ...
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/builderai-used-700-engineers-in-india-for-coding-work-it-marketed-as-ai-powered-after-hype-now-goes-bust-2734963-2025-06-03
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Who will win the race to destroy our planet first?
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AI Could Consume More Power Than Bitcoin By the End of 2025 - Slashdot
Artificial intelligence could soon outpace Bitcoin mining in energy consumption, according to Alex de Vries-Gao, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam's Institute for Environmental Studies. ...
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0049238/ai-could-consume-more-power-than-bitcoin-by-the-end-of-2025
5 months ago
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@brannalbin.bsky.social
I'm here because of your new blog, I've seen the post about "Realms of Ancardia: Eternal Strife", I keep my fingers crossed... anyway, ADOM classic doesn't work on my new M3 Mac, I've tried the MacOS Intel version, can we hope for a native port?
5 months ago
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Fabrizio Bartoloni
Internet Archive
5 months ago
📚 From Xerox PARC to Apple, women helped invent the way we use computers today. Join us for IN THROUGH THE SIDE DOOR, a
#booktalk
with author ERIN MALONE, led by ABBY COVERT. 📅 Thurs June 12 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1333098526...
#Design
#WomenInTech
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Oh, Reddit...
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"... In 2024, over 150,000 tech workers lost their jobs, and so far in 2025, that number has reached over 50,000, according to
Layoffs.fyi."
www.yahoo.com/news/softwar...
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Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet
AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/software-engineer-lost-150k-job-090000839.html
5 months ago
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È un peccato che sia andato perso. Il simulatore per C64 vi metteva nei panni di un responsabile della sicurezza della provincia di Napoli durante una fase di rischio eruzione del Vesuvio mentre il governo nega i fondi e la gente protesta. Quasi 40 anni e non è cambiato nulla.
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