Mastodawn

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:

Wombatadon 9h ago

ocdtrekkie Mar 18

The idea that Office 365 is compliant for use in any regulated space is *absolutely laughable*, but apparently the reason GCC High is approved for government use is because the government let agencies use it while they were evaluating it, and then realized so many agencies were now dependent on it, that they had to approve it even though it wasn't able to actually meet the security criteria.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/

#microsoft

Wombatadon 2d ago

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦2d ago

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116313103762711048

Pope Francis’ #Beatitudes papacy makes him one of the most important #antifa politicians of our era because,

THE BEATITUDES ARE THE OPPOSITE OF FASCISM

have said numerous times USA’s #1 export is #fascism. Bergolio survived #OperationCondor and understood that, to fight fascism inside the #RCC, he needed a vanguard of bishops like Prevost.

Pope Leo’s homily is a complete rebuke of evangelicals’ supply-side Jesus. USA warmongering #christofascism is not only an oxymoron. it’s #heresy.

🧵…

In this year of 2026 if you absolutely have to run your mobile, international event in America - and you choose to run it in Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, that is certainly a choice that reflects which of your members or employees you see as human.

Wombatadon Mar 24

Metacurity Mar 24

"The police were at our door at 3:30 in the morning." What?

The federal criminal police in Germany were dispatched on Sunday to visit and call in the wee hours firms that use PLM solutions, PTC Windchill, and FlexPLM, to alert them of a critical security vulnerability.
https://www.heise.de/news/WTF-Polizei-rueckte-Samstagnacht-wegen-Zero-Day-aus-11221345.html

WTF: Polizei rückte Samstagnacht wegen Zero-Day aus

Wegen der Sicherheitslücke in Windchill und ZeroPLM schickten mehrere Landeskriminalämter Polizeibeamte zu betroffenen Unternehmen. Die sind irritiert.

heise online

Wombatadon Mar 19

Social media considered harmful.
(for children)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/social_media_bad_for_kids/

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

: Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline

The Register

Wombatadon Mar 19

Prof. Sam Lawler Mar 19

Well, I have now been quoted calling SpaceX "fuckweasels" in a real publication by real journalists: https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116598/spacex-to-start-small-with-1-million-satellite-plan-pushes-back-on-critics

I guess I am proud of myself? (They are, indeed, fuckweasels, for their complete lack of care for the atmosphere that we all depend on, as well as not caring about Kessler Syndrome, or light pollution, or smashing people on the ground...)

SpaceX To Start Small With 1 Million Satellite Plan, Pushes Back On Critics

The company's rebuttal to the FCC mentions launching orbital data center constellation in phases, and studying potential atmospheric impacts. SpaceX also threw plenty of shade at Amazon.

PCMag Australia

Wombatadon Mar 18