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• Post #4189413

  £5m telescope trashed to save £50k, while they pump hundreds of millions into cloud credits for AI venture capital bro's. UKRI has lost it's mind. https://www.zmescience.com/science/astronomy/hipercam-camera-funding-cut/

• Post #2165190

  Embrace, extend, extort. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/microsofts_github_shifts_to_metered/

• Post #2165189

  I see a bit of a return of job applications with the old jingle: "B.Sc, M.Sc, PhD preferred". Like those are just a continuum of qualifications for the same job. 🤦‍♂️

• Post #2165188

  nailed it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9wlnwl85o

• Post #2165187

  The original tech bro of life sciences https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01226-z

• Post #2165185

  Another example of why AI is just part of the surveillance state. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98r4e594p7o

• Post #2165182

  bbsrc decided that our project modelling hepA disease transmission coming into the UK wasn't worth funding. Let's see how that worked out for them. Oh... Oh well, I'm sure investing in quantum AI is paying off. https://news.sky.com/story/parents-told-to-check-childrens-handwashing-after-south-wales-hepatitis-a-outbreak-13540843

• Post #1478940

  insert your own ironic statement. I could begin listing them but I respect the storage costs of the server admin. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-spins-up-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-engage-with-employees/

• Post #1478939

  Upon leaving the court, the judge was dismayed to find that everybody present had somehow purchased a non-refundable WatsonX subscription and a mainframe contract. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/14/ibm_dei_settlement/

• Post #1478938

  So Anthropic marketing has become "if you don't buy this its gonna p0wn your business, and you don't wanna get p0wned now do you boy?". They graduated from cheap grifter to protection racketeering. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ev24yx4rmo

• Post #1478937

  Funny 'cos it's true. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fisher-price-is-pivoting-to-ai-powered-autonomous-weapons-manufacturing

• Post #1478936

  There's a fine line between satire and reality these days. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-our-glorious-ai-future-there-will-be-no-such-thing-as-money-for-you

• Post #1478934

  This seems to fall apart bit by bit every day. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/europe_picks_4_sovereign_cloud/

• Post #1478932

  https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/palantir_nhs_break_clause/ "All the rights to any know-how are explicitly retained by the supplier and not passed across on termination of the contract. The contract delivers no software – not one line – just a subscribed service; a permanent lock-in; a single point of failure" <- that should be unforgivable for whoever set up the contract in a public service. instant dismissal of the entire management team. it's absolutely...