Oh come on.
"We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences."
All kinds of awful.
"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant."
https://futurism.com/leaked-chatgpt-lawyer-displace-amazonian
Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI chatbot now faces "hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine".
I've heard about some jobs pushing their workers into using AI, but now students?
"The reach and pace of AI’s impact to society, including many dimensions of higher education, means that we at Purdue must lean in and lean forward and do so across different functions at the university."
"We’re learning a lot, I’m going to be honest with you."
https://www.theverge.com/news/767421/taco-bell-ai-drive-thru-trolls-glitches
It's working!
"Large companies (defined as having more than 250 employees) have reduced their AI usage, according to the data. The slowdown started in June, when it was at roughly 13.5%, slipping to about 12% at the end of August. Most other lines, representing companies with fewer employees, are also at a decline, with some still increasing."
"Only ten percent [of over 5,000 US adults] said they were "more excited than concerned," indicating that most Americans simply do not share the extremely optimistic views of tech leaders selling AI products."
Learning a new AI-related term: workslop.
"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
#workslop #AI #slop #GenAI #technology #news #TechNews #study
#TechNews #Technology news picks of the day:
➡️ @404mediaco - Reader-supported investigative journalism on tech, privacy etc
➡️ @arstechnica - Tech news site since 1998
➡️ @osnews - Computing & tech news site since 1997
➡️ @2600 - Hacking magazine since 1984
➡️ @heiseonline - German-language tech news since 1996
➡️ @verge - Tech news site in US
➡️ @TechDesk - Human-curated tech news on Fedi
➡️ @TechCrunch - US tech news site
➡️ @podcast - Tech news podcast from blind people's perspective
🧵 1/8
Atlassian is sunsetting its Data Center products. For Confluence users, the question is no longer whether to migrate, but how.
Together with @nextcloud ,we ran a webinar, “Break free from Confluence”, covering:
✔ Live migration demo
✔ Preserving hierarchies, macros & permissions
✔ Migration strategies with minimal disruption
Recap 👉 https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/Webinar-overview-break-free-from-Confluence/
#XWiki #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Confluence #DataCenter #Atlassian #Tech #Technology #News #Technews
🇦🇹 Austria's Armed Forces have replaced MS Office with LibreOffice on 16,000+ workstations 📄
This shift began in 2020 to avoid mandatory cloud reliance ☁️
Their goal? Digital sovereignty—not cost saving 🔒
They even contributed 5+ person-years of code 🛠️
EU trend toward open-source grows 🇪🇺
🔗 https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forces-ditch-microsoft-office/
#TechNews #LibreOffice #Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #FOSS #Security #Europe #EU #Microsoft #Cloud #DigitalSovereignty #Government #Defense #Innovation #Technology
Getting ever closer to living the dream!
"Slackbot today is fairly rudimentary. But what we've done is we've actually rebuilt it from the ground up as a personalized AI companion."
https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade
"Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between January 2020 and May 2025. The results indicate that material created with machine learning tools initially overtook human-written content late last year."
#news #technology #TechNews #slop #AI #DeadInternet #DeadInternetTheory
"Sources tell Windows Central that internal teams are also beginning to push back against excessive integration, and the company may therefore reconsider its stance.
At the very least, Microsoft may dial back Copilot features or remove the chatbot’s branding from apps like Notepad and Paint to make the experience feel more conventional, the report says."
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-reportedly-plans-to-dial-back-copilot-across-windows-11-apps
"It’s one thing when a taxi is replaced by an Uber or a Lyft. It’s another thing when the jobs just go completely overseas."
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines
#news #technology #TechNews #AI #waymo #automation #labor #workers
Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl at today's hearing over social media’s alleged harms to children:
"If your glasses are recording, you must take them off. It is the order of this court that there must be no facial recognition of the jury. If you have done that, you must delete it. This is very serious."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-18/mark-zuckerberg-tesimony-la-social-media-trial
#news #USNews #technology #TechNews #meta #SocialMedia #MetaGlasses #AI
