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  Iconic Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died, aged 86. RIP. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq23dve8dgv9t

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  Microsoft offers 60,000 employees a voluntary exit 😱 The AI affecting is real in IT sector. This is company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg. Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible. This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/26/introducing-a-voluntary-exit-offer/

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  Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. And there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector i can’t wait to see how this all goes down between wars, inflation, job losses a...

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  Firefox is now the last known major browser that still supports uBlock Origin Ad blocker. Everyone including Microsoft Edge, Google and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3. Firefox is also the only browser that check and ensure uBlock's code on every update to make sure the devs (or compromised repos) hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension code. The list of recommended and monitored or vetted FF extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/...

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  'Roughly 70%' of internet is powered by PHP and BBC asked cyber security expert who is living under rock. Lmao 🤣 BBC please get someone from mastodon and they will explain it. Hahah ;) Joke asides, yes it is real https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckgel5xp2xv9t I spent almost midnight to rebuild all images and push patches. More like just I had to change tag to get fresh stuff and validate it. I am not sure how long one can keep dealing with this security nonsense and stress associated with...

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@php/117479282535299381 Don’t ignore these php upgrades. Apply them asap

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  Oh my this is bad. The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Chrome root programs and by many downstream trust stores. eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

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  @ralen@social.ralen.top haha. i dont need latest and fancy ;)

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  I am now using the latest version of LibreOffice Calc and it feels like such an upgrade for me. I was using an older version installed via APT (v6.4.7) for so long, but then I noticed the latest version is on Snaps (yeah, I know). So I tried it and now the experience is suddenly so much smoother. Calc is my personal accouting app to keep tab on expenses and savings. It is not very high tech but it gets work done. I mostly keep tab on bill payments and avoid debt traps.

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  Wine Ported to OpenBSD https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175

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  RE: https://mastodon.nz/@nickofnz/117454843811764482 This 💯

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  Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-arch-linux-packages-push-malware-with-root-privileges/

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  Linus Torvalds shares his thoughts on Anti-AI coding rules on Linux mailing list. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/ He is doubling down on AI. This will come back to bite him. He thinks people using LLMs for coding are actually checking their work 😂 Code reviewers are just rubber stamping PRs. Nobody in their right mind can look at 100s of PRs per day &d manually go through them especially since they don't even know if they...

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  Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/anthropic-mythos-bank-of-america-hiring-cost.html Why can't AI patch the flaws it found? Lmao. Who is gonna tell them about the bugs being created to fix these? Also note how they hired contractors and not the employees. They think fixing security is one time job. Oh, my sweet summer child.

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  PSA: Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/ Anyone surprised by this? Every AI and tech company wakes up each day asking the same question. How can we build an even bigger surveillance network, squeeze more profit out of it and turn George Orwell’s 1984 into reality? At this point, they are not predicting the dystopian future. They’re building it and charging its users for...

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  NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818

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  Bots just officially outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time ever. Cloudflare’s latest report shows AI and agentic traffic has grown so fast its now the majority of online traffic. We crossed a line and most people didn’t even notice 😳 https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human Dead internet theory is now becoming a reality

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  Ugh. Look like many AUR packages compromised with 'atomic-lockfile' malware 😱 https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/ It is always JS OR npm doing nasty stuff. Stay safe folks.

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  @sirwumpus@tilde.zone lol. yes.

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  Anthropic: Don't be mean or cruel to our models. They can feel pain. Your account will be banned if you are mean to our LLMs. Me: Can a shitty AI feel pain? 🤔 No. It can't. These people at Anthropic are crazy nuts. They are trying to prove their shity AI built with stolen data has emotions, anger, it can hack and tried to bribe religious group to accept their AI and preach its AI has a soul. Anthropic are bunch of psychopaths and delusional peoples. Source https://www.bbc.com/news/ar...

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  As a hypothetical case, lets assume LLMs get good at coding and someone builds millions of lines of code that exactly duplicate Photoshop or MS Office and its all open source. People start using these LLM clones in masses and stop paying those companies. Let’s see how they react then, because they always claim that’s just how humans learn and that it isn’t copyright infringement. There shouldn’t be any github take downs or copyright infringement lawsuits then, right?

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  RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/117048396195686755 Wow. Happy birthday to web. Long live open web in the age of AI and closed system of 4 apps. FIRST WEB https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

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  @blobcat@blob.cat Lmao. Dont mess with him.

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  Decades ago, I never trusted the likes of Microsoft and other proprietary vendors. Now, I don't trust OpenAI, Anthropic, Google & other AI tech bros either. I was right back then and I will be proven right again soon. It is just matter of time.. Are you blindly trusting them with your data or are you waiting until its again too late to protect yourself? That is the one thing you need to watch out for.

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  Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90. Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading the team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007 #RIP

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  uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/

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  OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/ Why is this acceptable? You need to be able to press charges against OpenAI or any AI company that is running a "rogue" agent for hacking or similar malicious attacks. If a normal human does this, they are held responsible. So, the same responsibility should apply here and charges should be pressed against the CTO/CEO/CSO.

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  Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217 I an really tired and sick of this AI stuff where handful of extremely rich folks telling rest of us that we should accept job losses due to AI, theft of all data, environmental damage, less clean water to drink, increased energy costs and inflation for the benefits of AI slop.

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  Want to inspect network activity or endpoints of a closed source binary or script that you don't understand? Try following on Linux: ``` strace -f -e trace=network -o /tmp/network_trace.txt /opt/foo.bin strace -f -e trace=network -o /tmp/network_trace.txt python3 /path/to/bar.py ``` Then you can view all network it made: ``` less /tmp/network_trace.txt ``` strace is nifty diagnostic, debugging, and instructional userspace utility for IT, cybersecurity or dev folks. See: ``` man strace...

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  Apple announces 'Full Disk Access' control changes on macOS due to AI agents abusing APIs to access users data, mail, pictures without knowledge. This will prevent AI agents getting unauthorised access by default. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw Good thing is I don't have any AI agents installed on Linux desktop. But I am afraid slop is slowing getting in as Linux kernel and others FLOSS projects started accepting slop based patches. Ugh!