eLearningTechie

eLearningTechie@mas.to

🔸🔹🔸🔹🔶🔹🔸🔹🔸Tired techie. Often lost in another tab. Professional lurker. Permanently bewildered. :ablobthinkingeyes:Formerly at 👉 twitter.com/eLearningTechie🔸🔹🔸🔹🔶🔹🔸🔹🔸--------------- Note: I will not boost image content without alt text.

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Post #3152911
Amazing numbers from a survey of 200+ businesses: 81% Reported an increase in production incidents due to AI-generated code 70% Say maintaining their test suite is now a bigger burden than writing code itself 52% Reported a significant increase in software development output due to AI coding tools 92% of business leaders expressed confidence in the production readiness of AI-generated code source: https://www.cloudbees.com/lp/2026-state-of-code-abundance-report
Post #3152910
When &#39;AI&#39; does all sorts of damage to open-source projects AI bros and vibers simply shrug. When open-source bites back AI bros and vibers are outraged: how could anyone harm their precious little agents...? 🙄 https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/fed-up-with-vibe-coders-dev-sneaks-data-nuking-prompt-injection-into-their-code/
Post #3152909
Gillbert!! 🤣🤣🤣 https://youtu.be/xSPeum5Q6Pk 💀 #tgif
Post #3152908
&quot;Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. (...) Users who have had their accounts stolen say that there is no way to escalate their problem to a human.&quot; - https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/ Just wait until they discover your bank&#39;s...
Post #3152907
&quot;While Microsoft and Nvidia publicly say AI agents are on the verge of revolutionizing every aspect of work, this research shows that AI agents struggle to perform simple tasks and often unintentionally sabotage users in the process.&quot; - https://www.404media.co/nvidia-and-microsoft-researchers-say-ai-agents-dont-care-about-safety-or-reliability/ Or put another way, humans are sabotaging themselves by treating the slopmachine as if it were an even slightly intelligent fellow hum...
Post #3152906
&quot;An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality&quot; - https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/ Where to even start ...
Post #3152905
RE: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/116705633505321272 WTF...?
Post #2031147
Surveillance dressed up as &#39;green AI data centres&#39; - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98r4e594p7o 🙄
Post #2031142
Oh noes my bread dough escaped its holding pen 😱 How&#39;s your weekend going so far?
Post #2031140
&quot;The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. [...] The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.&quot; - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07310-z (via https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/)
Post #2031139
&quot;A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.&quot; - https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/asia_tech_news_roundup/ Interesting.
Post #2031138
This from the Waterpark Sim dev team is ConcernedApe level care for their players: &quot;...apart from creating the new content (...), we have been working hard to improve the performance of the game for all. This was always a goal of ours, but with the current prices of Pc parts, we decided it was even more important than ever to make sure as many people as possible can enjoy the game without having to worry so much about their machine specs.&quot; https://store.steampowered.com/news/...
Post #1450584
&quot;British adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online.&quot; - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/ofcom_social_media_use/ Probably too busy with their chatbot boy/girlfriends these days...
Post #1450583
&quot;OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.&quot; - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/openai_puts_stargate_uk_on/ Good. Gives people more time to brew up anger and rebellion at this pointless waste of resources that are already overpriced in the UK.
Post #1450582
&quot;During testing on Ubuntu (...) only nine system processes made internet connections. By comparison, macOS reportedly showed more than one hundred processes communicating externally.&quot; - https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/04/09/0617212/little-snitch-comes-to-linux-to-expose-what-your-software-is-really-doing Blimey.
Post #1450581
Is it a coincidence that both &#39;fail&#39; and &#39;entertainment&#39; contain AI...? TGIF!
Post #1450578
It would appear that the entire &quot;AI&quot; industry is fraud and deception on every single level. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions
Post #1450577
TL;DR: Give Scam Altman all your bio data, so that we can solve a problem he and people like him created - https://news.zoom.com/zoom-and-tools-for-humanity/ What a world we live in.😞