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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-… Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

💯 vcs and tech bros act like they cured cancer with Gen AI. Lmao. In reality, they just stole every thing out there while causing large amount of environmental damage to build a slop machine and slop OS.

Ageless Linux: Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't. https://agelesslinux.org/

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-l… For anyone running a content driven site like a forum or blog, a new site or user generated content is now a bad idea. The users are long gone because these AI chatbots steal everything and keep users on their apps. So, I am not surprised they shut down. Even big newspapers are reducing staff, and everyone thinks LLMs will write news for them and I have the Taj Mahal to sell you ;)

AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/ Look on the bright side in a few years there will be good demand for "artisanal" software engineers and specialized IT folks who can fix this AI slop generated code at 1000$ per hour.

Poll: Are there issues with the supply of cooking gas or petroleum products in your area due to on going #war ?

Another day, another company is reducing IT and software dev jobs to replace them with AI despite many report indicating that Gen AI doesn't work as promised. Get ready for more outages for Jira and co ;) ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/12/atlass… I didn't think Jira could get any more messed up, but I underestimated their commitment to the bit. AI is a bold choice for a platform that struggles with basic navigation. Lmao #ai #llm