Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions(twitter.com)

954 points by enraged_camel 7 months ago | 633 comments

A post on X by economics writer Joseph Politano claiming tech-sector employment is now worse than during the 2008 or 2020 recessions.

Iran has now been offline for 96 hours(twitter.com)

121 points by payamb 9 months ago | 80 comments

AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days(twitter.com)

25 points by da_grift_shift 8 months ago | 33 comments

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms(twitter.com)

472 points by AffableSpatula 9 months ago | 305 comments

An X post describing a hidden multi-agent 'Swarms' feature in Anthropic's Claude Code, linked alongside a GitHub tool for enabling unreleased features.

FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub(twitter.com)

468 points by merlindru 10 months ago | 155 comments

An X (Twitter) post from the FFmpeg account about issuing a DMCA takedown on GitHub; the post content did not load in the capture.

NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers(twitter.com)

28 points by spendy_clao 8 months ago | 4 comments

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

I'm Tired of Talking to AI(orchidfiles.com)

1753 points by theorchid 5 months ago | 850 comments

A personal essay recounting frustration with people replying using copy-pasted AI answers, including on GitHub discussions and from an employer sharing ChatGPT screenshots.

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data(twitter.com)

746 points by notRobot 1 year ago | 304 comments

An X (Twitter) post from Lunduke Journal reporting that Mozilla removed its promise to never sell Firefox user data; the post content did not load.

OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster(reuters.com)

887 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 977 comments

Reuters exclusive reporting that OpenAI researchers sent the board a letter warning of a powerful AI breakthrough before Sam Altman's ouster as CEO.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)

665 points by speckx 5 months ago | 542 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.

Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high(worksinprogress.news)

414 points by bensouthwood 1 year ago | 411 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Deena Mousa arguing that AI is not replacing radiologists, with demand for human radiologists at an all-time high.