ramblingsteve

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@tante "Starting April 15, Copilot will no longer be available inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote without a paid license." 🎉🎉🎉

All together now: fuck systemd

First to tongue the boot when it comes to this age verification shit I see.

@arclight yes, our culture today epitomises the old phrase: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.'
Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test

: Robotron: 2084 is the original robot uprising game

The Register
@davidgerard it's a Darwin award test too :D

AI job losses free up time for unemployed mobs to burn down tech CEO‘s houses

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/ai-job-losses-free-up-time-for-unemployed-mobs-to-burn-down-tech-ceos-houses/

"“Back when I had a job I never would’ve had the free time to organize an unruly rabble and march towards the beach house of (Open AI CEO) Sam Altman. But now I’m getting so much more violent retribution accomplished in a day.”"

AI job losses free up time for unemployed mobs to burn down tech CEO‘s houses

PALO ALTO, CA - With Silicon Valley boasting that artificial intelligence could replace millions of jobs around the world, currently laid-off workers have reported having more free time to form angry mobs dedicated to storming and torching the homes of the tech billionaires responsible.

The Beaverton
What future do you want for Sycamore Gap tree? Vote now on what's next for the felled landmark

Last July, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were each jailed for more than four years for criminal damage to the famous landmark.

Sky
The great license-washing has begun – OSnews

The promise and the reality:

The story of the Loughton supercomputer is an insight into the dizzying ambitions for artificial intelligence as an economic powerhouse, in the UK and beyond – but also how those hopes can dissolve into a less exciting reality.

The $17.5bn investment represents a plan, by a UK company, to buy chips made in Taiwan by a US company, put them in a building in Loughton, and rent them to another US tech company.

Asked about how the site would create 750 jobs, Nscale could not say how this figure had been calculated.

Again and again, @davidgerard, Ed Zitron and others have highlighted that many of these loudly trumpeted "commitments" and "contracts" to invest billions are nothing more than hype to inflate the AI balloon. Here's another shabby example. Who's behind it? Former crypto bros, of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/from-press-release-to-scrap-metal-site-the-essex-supercomputer-thats-still-a-scaffolding-yard

#pivotToAi #cryptobros #FuckAI