Mastodawn

"Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it."

https://browsergate.eu/

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

BrowserGate

xaxat 22h ago

Joseph Cox 22h ago

Astronauts are trained for decades in some of the most physically and mentally grueling environments of any career. They’re some of the smartest people on the planet. And yet, once they get up there, fucking Outlook is borked. https://www.404media.co/artemis-2-astronauts-microsoft-outlook-livestream/

Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work

In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.

404 Media

xaxat 2d ago

Bob Jamieson 2d ago

Normal Island News

IDF not joining US ground invasion because it's only comfortable fighting women and children

Israel has announced its troops will not be joining the US in the ground invasion of Iran, due to concerns they would have to fight grown men, rather than unarmed women and children.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/idf-not-joining-us-ground-invasion?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #satire #IsraelTerroristState #Iran #US

IDF not joining US ground invasion because it's only comfortable fighting women and children

Israel has announced its troops will not be joining the US in the ground invasion of Iran, due to concerns they would have to fight grown men, rather than unarmed women and children.

Normal Island News

xaxat 2d ago

Chris Geidner 2d ago

BREAKING: Judge Leon finds Trump likely lacks the authority to build the ballroom, blocks Trump admin from building unless Congress actually gives that authority.

"[N]o statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have."

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.60.0_3.pdf

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McNadoMD 3d ago

Nothing gives Israel a special right to invade neighbors, bulldoze their homes, and create a DMZ.

US voters must make anyone supporting the Israeli state unelectable until support for this bullshit stops.

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David Gerard 3d ago

the precise timeline of how OpenAI fucked over the RAM market

> October 2025: Sam Altman flies to Seoul and signs simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 900,000 DRAM wafers per month. That's 40% of global supply. Neither company knew the other was signing a near-identical commitment at the same time.

https://xcancel.com/aakashgupta/status/2038813799856374135

edit: this guy is a seriously bot-pilled pumper, but this seems to be a good summary of known facts. doubt the AI memory use trick he mentions is load bearing tho.

Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta)

The timeline on this is genuinely insane. October 2025: Sam Altman flies to Seoul and signs simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 900,000 DRAM wafers per month. That's 40% of global supply. Neither company knew the other was signing a near-identical commitment at the same time. Those deals were letters of intent. Non-binding. No RAM actually changed hands. But the market treated them as gospel. Contract DRAM prices jumped 171%. A 64GB DDR5 kit went from $190 to $700 in three months. December 2025: Micron kills Crucial, its 29-year-old consumer memory brand, to reallocate every wafer to AI and enterprise customers. The company explicitly said it was exiting consumer memory to "improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments." Translation: the AI demand signal was so loud that selling RAM to PC builders stopped making financial sense. March 2026: Google publishes TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces AI memory requirements by 6x with zero accuracy loss. Cloudflare's CEO called it "Google's DeepSeek." The entire thesis that AI would consume infinite memory forever just got a six-month expiration date on it. Same month: OpenAI and Oracle cancel the Abilene Stargate expansion. The $500 billion data center vision that justified the RAM deals couldn't survive its own financing terms. Bloomberg attributed the collapse partly to OpenAI's "often-changing demand forecasting." MU is now down ~33% from its post-earnings high. Revenue up 196% year over year, EPS up 682%, and the stock is in freefall because the company restructured its entire business around a demand signal that came from non-binding letters and is now being compressed out of existence by a research paper. Micron bet the consumer division on Sam Altman's signature. The signature was worth exactly what the paper said: nothing binding.

Nitter

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myrmepropagandist 4d ago

Right now US military might is for sale to the highest bidder so a host of actors are purchasing their wish lists.

That's what these wars seem to be. People talk about "Israel controlling the US" and get antisemetic about it, but Israel is just *one* of the people in line to get their dream fulfilled. US Cubans (some of them) want the US to "fix" their country. Venezuela was something similar. Bibi has dreamed of bombing Iran forever... we are the doordash of war.

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JP 4d ago

I had to get this idea out of my head. #TheyLive #LLM

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Aral Balkan 4d ago

@glynmoody Sadly, not just itself.

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thoe 5d ago

@[email protected]

I really liked @[email protected] 's suggestion to bring back the e-mail signatures highlighting the environmental impact of printing e-mails, only for "AI" instead. It's not much, but it's something. If I had the courage I'd use something like this at work:

Before using "AI" to summarize, respond to, or process this email or its attachments, please consider the environmental impact and the potential effects on your own cognitive abilities. "AI" consumes significant natural resources, and relying on it can diminish your own thinking skills.

CC: @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Edit: spelling