Mastodawn

Interesting segment at the start of this week's Vergecast. Worth listening IMO

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/913792/ai-divide-sam-altman-vergecast

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

In the wake of Allbirds’ pivot to AI, the attacks on Sam Altman, and data that suggests people still don’t want AI, The Vergecast discusses the increasing divide.

The Verge

TheBadPlace Apr 10

yahoo news | Fear and loathing at OpenAI

Sam Altman’s tumultuous tenure at OpenAI—marked by a brief firing, a rapid reinstatement, and a sweeping re‑organization—has become the subject of a deep dive in The New Yorker. The piece questions whether Altman is the right steward for a technology as transformative as artificial intelligence, probing his leadership style, decision‑making process, and the broader implications of concentrating such power in one individual’s hands.

The Verge’s latest podcast episode, “Fear and Loathing at OpenAI,” builds on the New Yorker’s investigation. Hosts David Pierce and Nilay Patel discuss Altman’s seemingly ordinary business tactics against the backdrop of an industry that many argue needs a different kind of leader. They also touch on side projects—Nilay’s iMac‑to‑monitor conversion and David’s “vibe‑coding” productivity app—before diving into the core debate about AI’s future and the responsibility of its CEOs.

In addition to the Altman conversation, the episode features a lightning‑round segment that revisits the ongoing mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity, with speculation about whether it could be Adam Back. Listeners are encouraged to vote for The Vergecast in the Webby Awards, submit questions for an upcoming meta‑Vergecast, and explore related links covering OpenAI’s economic proposals, CNN’s reporting controversy, and further reading on Bitcoin’s creator.

#openai #samaltman #theverge #satoshinakamoto

Fear and loathing at OpenAI

On The Vergecast: what it takes to be in charge of AI, some vibe-coding and DIY work, and Brendan Carr.

Yahoo Tech

Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋Apr 10

Apparently, #Amazon will soon be throwing older #Kindle devices completely off their infrastructure. This is probably an effort to coerce people into buying newer readers. (Those historically execrably dire movies aren't going to pay for themselves, after all.)

Archived copy of #TheVerge article here:

https://archive.is/nqdp2

Anyway, in related news...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EytYGAWtevA

#ThinLizzy #Jailbreak

tekphloyd

Apr 4

I saved a doomed #Windows laptop by embracing #Linux
#TheVerge
https://www.theverge.com/tech/905946/windows-11-forced-obsolescence-linux-thinkpad?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Im5NT3JxZzVseE4iLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTA1OTQ2L3dpbmRvd3MtMTEtZm9yY2VkLW9ic29sZXNjZW5jZS1saW51eC10aGlua3BhZCIsImV4cCI6MTc3NTczOTY1NSwiaWF0IjoxNzc1MzA3NjU1fQ.XH7ELBm3uccEyAanEmC7F_IdNh1zvBPyinYO0nlQU1s&utm_medium=gift-link

I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux

My laptop was supposed to be obsolete without Windows 11, but Linux helped me rescue it from the landfill — and you can use it to save your laptop, too.

The Verge

realcaseyrollins ✝️Mar 31

@taylorlorenz @0461fcbecc4c3374439932d6b8f11269ccdb7cc973ad7a50ae362db135a474dd @taylorlorenz But like, should we expect anything else from these people?

If we're lucky, #TheVerge will make a video and the #Fediverse in five years.

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 28

Returning from aid trip to #Cuba, Americans have phones seized at #US airport

From #TheVerge
March 28 , 2026

https://www.theverge.com/policy/902284/cuba-aid-convoy-phones-seized-cbp-nuestra-america

#EndTheEmbargoBlockade
#news #politics

Returning from a humanitarian aid trip to Cuba, Americans have phones seized at US airport

Customs and Border Protection agents briefly detained 20 activists traveling with CODEPINK, 18 of whom had their phones taken.

The Verge

realcaseyrollins ✝️Mar 27

This is why #TheVerge sucks now BTW. They’ve emphasized appeasing #BlueAnon and screwing over the people who made their videos and forgot that the whole point of why people liked them in the first place was that they were cool people with good insights in the tech and social media space.

But they drove away fantastic contributors like #backlon and #BeccaFarsace, who killed it at both journalism as well as review videos, and didn’t replace them with anyone with equivalent talent.

Now the #YouTube channel is pretty much just podcast clips, and the website (which, to be fair, hasn’t declined as poorly) feels less like a place for journalism and news than if you ran a competing site like #Engadget through the filter of #KaraSwisher’s glasses.

RT: https://social.teci.world/objects/dcf1eadd-c372-4656-83a2-32e9b34de845

Dustin Mar 23

The Vergecast’s Brendan Carr is a Dummy segment from March 20th has, IMHO, the best listener-created jingle to date. I think the creator’s name is Julia.

Well done. I’ll be singing it for days.

#TheVerge

Led By Gilded Fools Mar 20

Google Sucks Shit: According to The Verge, Google search is now replacing headlines—those things we painstakingly craft—with inaccurate, AI generated AI slop, often changing the meaning entirely in what the company calls a "small and narrow experiment."

It changed a Verge headline from "I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything” to “‘Cheat on everything’ AI tool.” This is bad. Google search was the internet. It's a fucking verb.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

#Google #GoogleAI #GoogleIsEvil #GoogleAssistant #Gemini #AI #TheVerge #GoogleDiscover #Discover

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

The Verge