Oracle have laid off 30k employees today. They did it to personal email accounts at 6am 🫡 saying they needed the money to spend on GenAI instead. https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026

Oracle’s share price since they went GenAI nuts:

Remember being 15, fixing things nobody asked you to fix, staying up way too late debugging stuff for fun? We built the contest we wish had existed back then. 🤩

Any Free Software project. 6 months. No fixed topic. Up to €4096 + a trip to Brussels to meet their people.

Ages 14–18, anywhere in Europe. Solo or team. Totally beginner-ok.

📣 If you know a young hacker, tell them about it!

🔗 https://yh4f.org/register

🔗 More information on https://yh4f.org

#YH4F #FreeSoftware

Any Democratic candidate who does not put this headline into an ad is politically negligent

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/gop-health-care-pay-iran-war

#USPol

Anthropic lost a class action suit for scraping books. Writers can register with Anthropic to be compensated for their pillaging of our copyrights.

The compensation system was AI-coded.

Anthropic can't keep track of our submissions. They don't know who wrote what.

Their customer support is AI-driven. Send a mail! Log in to a nonexistent page! Resubmit and it'll be fine!

This will be fine.   

2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism

2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

*Company makes my life worse through their product*

I will boycott this product

*Company continues making my life worse, now through externalities*

How do I boycott an externality