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Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs as the US technology company seeks to reassure investors that its bet on AI infrastructure will pay off.

🔗 US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending | Oracle | The Guardian

I genuinely believe that these tech companies are making these types of choices purely because of the stock market. Layoffs make their stock prices go up because of a perception of improved productivity.

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US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending

Company seeks to reassure investors that bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure will pay off

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Michael Harley 2d ago

So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up-to-date files, but tar + ssh can definitely accomodate the use case of “transmit all of these files over an SSH connection to another host”.

🔗 tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync

This is such a silly stance IMO. Purity culture anyone? Are people like Drew going to continue to reduce their list of acceptable software until they’re forced to not us any software because an LLM was used in the pipeline somewhere? Dumb.

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tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync

Michael Harley 2d ago

Early this morning, Anthropic published version 2.1.88 of Claude Code npm package—but it was quickly discovered that package included a source map file, which could be used to access the entirety of Claude Code's source—almost 2,000 TypeScript files and more than 512,000 lines of code.

🔗 Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file - Ars Technica

Oops!

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Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file

512,000 lines of code that competitors and hobbyists will be studying for weeks.

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Michael Harley 2d ago

OkCupid and its owner Match Group reached a settlement with the Trump administration for not telling dating-app customers that nearly 3 million user photos were shared with a company making a facial recognition system. OkCupid also gave the facial recognition firm access to user location information and other details without customers' consent, the Federal Trade Commission said.

🔗 OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says - Ars Technica

Grrr these damn people make me so mad.

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