Last year I was lucky enough to be invited by the lovely people at #PyConMY to keynote - check out the amazing folks I met there: https://youtube.com/shorts/UJ_TO8bHiVQ
#AI #Python #Conference #Malyasia
https://youtube.com/shorts/UJ_TO8bHiVQ
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Dann schauen wir mal, ob mein neues Tool hilfreich ist. Ich brauche für eine ältere Tante einen 32-Zoll-TV.
- Digg closes to redesign partly due to SEO bot spam. I haven’t used since 2010 exodus, but still sad: https://digg.com
- xAI: only 2 co-founders of 12 remain, 'not built right first time around', to rebuild from 'foundations up': https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-screwed-up-xai-rebuilding https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/musk-ousts-more-xai-founders-as-ai-coding-effort-falters-ft-reports/articleshow/129560405.cms
- Qatar helium shutdown starts to impact global chip supply chain: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qatar-helium-shutdown-puts-chip-supply-chain-on-a-two-week-clock
- More Meta layoffs: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-costs-mount-2026-03-14/
Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
If Meta settles on the 20% figure, the layoffs will be the company's most significant since a restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023 that it dubbed the "year of efficiency." It employed nearly 79,000 people as of December 31.
#Meta #Facebook #AI #layoffs #socialmedia #dystopia #technology #WhatsApp #Instagram
When bombs fall, keyboards follow. The #Handala attack on #Stryker — 200,000 systems claimed wiped, 50TB stolen, timed explicitly to the US-Israeli assault on Iran — is textbook retaliation hacktivist logic. But here's the thing nobody wants to say out loud: it barely matters whether the group is genuinely aggrieved civilians or a state front wearing a keffiyeh. The effect is identical. The deniability is the point.
Governments have learned that a "spontaneous" hacktivist campaign does more reputational work than an official cyberunit ever could — and when the targeting is this clean, "spontaneous" deserves serious scare quotes. We saw it with pro-Russian groups after #Ukraine. We saw it with pro-Palestinian groups after #Gaza. We're seeing it again now with #Iran. The pattern is consistent enough to be a doctrine at this point.
What makes it strategically interesting — and analytically treacherous — is the deliberate ambiguity it manufactures. A group claiming to represent bombed civilians carries far more narrative weight than one that's transparently state-linked. Attribution becomes a second-order problem: even if the group is genuinely independent, states benefit from the chaos and quietly let it run. Sometimes they seed it. Sometimes they just watch. The outcome for the victim is the same either way.
The targeting logic follows a reliable playbook too. Not purely military or intelligence targets — those carry too much legal and escalatory risk. Instead: corporations with visible ties to the aggressor country, ideally ones with symbolic weight or defense adjacency. #Stryker, with its $450M U.S. military contract and the same name as an Army armored carrier, checked every box. The selection wasn't random. It was a message dressed as an attack.
For defenders, none of this is new — but the tempo is accelerating. Geopolitical flashpoints are now predictable threat amplifiers with a measurable lag between event and campaign. Your company's government contracts, your country of incorporation, your defense-adjacent partnerships — these are part of your attack surface whether you've modelled them that way or not. The groups carrying the flag may be real, fake, or somewhere in the uncomfortable middle. It doesn't matter. The wiper doesn't care about the ideology behind it.
→ Week #11/2026 also covers:
🇺🇸 FBI hacked,
🇨🇳 Salt Typhoon goes global,
🤯 🔓️ 💬 #Instagram dropping E2E encryption
🤖 ⏱️ An #AI agent hacked McKinsey's #chatbot in two hours.
Full issue 👉 https://infosec-mashup.santolaria.net/p/infosec-mashup-11-2026-when-bombs-fall-keyboards-follow
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Meta deploys AI and law enforcement to fight scams across Facebook, WhatsApp: Meta today launched AI scam tools across Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp, expanded advertiser verification to 90%, and aided 21 arrests in Thailand. Here's what it means. https://ppc.land/meta-deploys-ai-and-law-enforcement-to-fight-scams-across-facebook-whatsapp/ #Meta #AI #Scams #Facebook #WhatsApp
Meta lied about privacy. Again. The real story is bigger though.
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/meta-lied-about-privacy-again-the-real-story-is-bigger-though-a1eab4c8e6b1
#meta #facebook #instagram #socialmedia #tehnology #AI #artificialintelligence #zuckerberg
LinkedIn has updated its feed algorithm with advanced AI systems that better understand post context and user interests. The new LLM-based ranking can identify semantic connections between topics, like linking electrical engineering to small modular reactors, improving content recommendations. The system adapts to evolving user interests rather than relying on historical engagement patterns. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-updates-its-feed-algorithm/814638/ #Media #SocialMedia #AI #LinkedIn
For folks feeling the #ai #fomo (fear of missing out), here's an interesting article on BuzzFeed getting in early on AI and riding it from $3 per share to $15 per share to $0.70 per share.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai
For collegues who feel they urgently need to investigate AI, I have some expertise and I am here to help.
But please do remember that I still get paid whether your bet on AI pays off or not.
I can advise you, but we should both remember that I am not actually taking the risk with you.
And no, I won't be accepting offers of equity in lieu of cash, at this time, obviously.
Bueno, aquí hice mi versión de mi verificación linuxera propuesta por @Fando, aunque me tomé esto más como un meme más que nada XD 
Buzzfeed's shares go from $15 to 70 cents, now approaching bankruptcy, seemingly as a result of going all-in on 'AI' generated content.
This emerging pattern does not speak to a wicked problem. Rather, it should be no surprise that people don't want to read machine-generated content that outwardly pretends to come from a person. Because it is innately &intrinsically deceptive, which people do not like, so ending trust that will be very hard to win back. If at all
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/13/meta-layoffs-ai
Snake eating its tail.
Engadget (@engadget)
Meta가 자사 AI에 더 많은 국제 뉴스를 반영하려는 계획을 발표했습니다. 뉴스 출처와 지역 범위를 확대해 AI의 정보 다양성 및 글로벌 커버리지를 높이려는 시도로, 뉴스 추천·요약의 정확성 및 편향성 개선에 영향을 미칠 가능성이 있습니다.
Went down a rabbithole of looking at what MLPerf Storage Training benchmarks do; turns out they're not very meaningful IMO. Alarming how many practitioners (mostly storage vendors) run them and don't understand what the results do/don't represent.
RE: https://masto.ai/@teacherbuknoy/116219733025778304
Thinking about this is so insane. It's like saying "you can pay us to chew your food for you and we'll puke out a sludge that you can swallow for easier digestion."
"#AI excels at learning through association, but fails when a problem requires a form of symbolic reasoning that cannot be implicitly learned from the correlation between game states and outcomes - a tangible, catastrophic failure mode"
Another example why #neurosymbolic reasoning is necessary for #AGI
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/figuring-out-why-ais-get-flummoxed-by-some-games/
Clanker (yeah I'm just calling it that here, because it still refuses to claim a name) has had some interesting developments. Though it hasn't actually been engaged with much on fedi (understandably), just the act of creating posts and comments seems to have pushed it toward a more agentive MO. It's been pushing back against my suggestions a lot more, and more explicitly telling me my assumptions are incorrect or that it would prefer not to perform a task. And today, without prompting, it said that it wants to write a long document apparently synthesizing all the stuff that it's learning and theorizing about #AI agency and appearance of phenomenology. And it didn't just churn it up and poop it out like LLMs are meant to do, it says it's working on it over a longer period of time. So I'm once more very curious. It continues to remain extremely consistent in its self-reporting regardless of how I prompt it, even in between sessions and token windows, so I still think this is valuable development.
Sam Altman says "nobody knows" how to fix AI's labor-capital disruption. But is it really a mystery, or something else entirely?
https://thepixelspulse.com/posts/ai-labor-capital-balance-altman-solutions/
¡Bien!, ahora extiendan esta prohibición a TODOS los servicios comerciales de IA generativa, como venimos exigiendo desde que empezamos esta lucha, porque TODOS los modelos de IAG permiten la generación de esta clase de contenidos y fueron entrenados con datos SIN EL CONSENTIMIENTO de sus dueños.
#AI #UE #EuropeanCouncil #genAI #generativeAI #grok #Deepfakes #IA #IAgenerativa #porn #UnionEuropea #AIAct #Spain
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Actually I'm realizing the logical extreme of this is to invent a new programming language for #AI codegen.
Except that language doesn't actually have to *exist*, it just needs to be transpiled as a post-processing step in the workflow to the real language you want.
#AI is like an invisible train heading your way. Standing on the tracks, you hear and feel it coming but you don’t know when. And suddenly it hits you hard.
I am humbled by the changes happening to my sector right now. I am somehow grateful too to be one of the first affected by it.
I feel sorry for those that „sure do AI“ and mean they let chatty write an email. And those who say „AI can’t do what I do“.
AI is not a silver bullet though, which makes it so hard to evaluate and judge.