Mastodawn

The Onion, gloriously on target as ever.

https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman

While leading OpenAI, Sam Altman has weathered leaked internal memos, an attempt to oust him as CEO, and widespread skepticism about artificial intelligence’s role in society. The Onion sat down with the entrepreneur to hear his vision for the technology’s future. The Onion: Good morning, Sam. How are you doing today?Altman: Certainly! Here are some […]

The Onion

Rubén Béjar 1d ago

Gerry McGovern 2d ago

The hidden beauty of vibe coding

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

The Register

Rubén Béjar 1d ago

4ª edición del concurso “Trabajos Fin de Estudios (TFE) Relacionados con Tecnología Libre" coordinado por la Oficina de Software Libre de la Universidad de Zaragoza.

Premios en metálico y kits de Arduino.

Límite el 30 de abril. Se pueden presentar TFE defendidos en universidades españolas el segundo semestre de 2025 o que vayan a defenderse, o se hayan defendido, en el curso 2025/26.

Bases completas:

https://osluz.unizar.es/content/iv-concurso-tfe-tecnologia-libre

Se agradece RT y toda la difusión que queráis darle.

IV Concurso TFE Tecnología Libre | Oficina Software Libre

Rubén Béjar 1d ago

Yago Álvarez Barba 1d ago

ElEconomista compara la PENSIÓN MEDIA de 2026 con el SALARIO MÁS FRECUENTE de 2023.

Porque si comparas Pensión MEDIA 21.935 con salario MEDIO 35.400 de 2026

O pensión MODAL 12.600/13.300 con salario MODAL 15.500 no engañarían a nadie, claro. Y se trata de eso, no de periodismo.

Rubén Béjar 2d ago

Colin Nov 10

Rubén Béjar 3d ago

Kevin Beaumont 5d ago

Buzzfeed journey:

- Successful
- Pivoted to GenAI for content
- Laid everybody off
- Now admits it probably can't stay in business

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Futurism

Rubén Béjar 4d ago

cslinuxboy 5d ago

Yet another Linux filesystem creator loses his mind. This time to AI psychosis https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/

#AI #AIPsychosis #Psychosis #BcacheFS #Linux #Filesystem #KentOverstreet

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

: It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

The Register

Rubén Béjar 4d ago

Dare Obasanjo 4d ago

In a survey of 1,000 hiring managers, 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.”

Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-13/the-ai-washing-of-job-cuts-is-corrosive-and-confusing?embedded-checkout=true

Rubén Béjar 5d ago

Greg Egan 5d ago

Antimatter Trucker is finally a job title! But don’t worry, this isn’t going to be “The Wages of Fear, 2026”:

“The device on Cern’s truck will carry about 1,000 antimatter particles, weighing about a billionth of a trillionth of a gram. Should the containment fail, and the antimatter make contact with normal matter, the resulting pulse of energy would be so feeble, the load doesn’t even warrant a radioactive label.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/14/please-drive-carefully-scientists-plan-to-transport-volatile-antimatter-for-first-time

Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

Cern researchers are testing traps capable of moving antimatter, which explodes into energy as soon as it comes into contact with regular matter

The Guardian

Rubén Béjar 6d ago

petersuber 6d ago

Big news from #arXiv:
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678/chief-executive-officer

1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization.
2. It's leaving #CornellU.
3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k.

#GreenOA #OpenAccess #Preprints #ScholComm

Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678

arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

The Chronicle of Higher Education Jobs