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TechCrunch: WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff. “Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/techcrunch-wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/

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Los Angeles Times: Amazon places bid on TikTok as deadline looms. “Amazon reportedly has made a bid to buy TikTok, the popular video app that is in danger of being banned in the U.S. if it can’t reach a deal that would separate it from its Chinese owner.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/los-angeles-times-amazon-places-bid-on-tiktok-as-deadline-looms/

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Ars Technica: Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins. “On the heels of releasing its most capable AI model yet, Google is making some changes to the Gemini team. A new report from Semafor reveals that longtime Googler Sissie Hsiao will step down from her role leading the Gemini team effective immediately. In her place, Google is appointing Josh Woodward, who […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/ars-technica-google-shakes-up-gemini-leadership-google-labs-head-taking-the-reins/

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Ars Technica: DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge. “Google’s artificial intelligence arm DeepMind has been holding back the release of its world-renowned research, as it seeks to retain a competitive edge in the race to dominate the burgeoning AI industry.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/ars-technica-deepmind-is-holding-back-release-of-ai-research-to-give-google-an-edge/

#ai#deepmind#google

Yuval Harari on the rising trend of techno-fascism driven by populism and artificial intelligence has been visible since the US presidential election in November

Nexus, which was published just a few months earlier, is a timely explainer of the potential consequences of AI on #democracy and totalitarianism. In the book, Harari does not just sound the alarm on #singularity—the hypothetical future point at which technology, particularly AI, moves beyond human control and advances irreversibly on its own—but also on #AI’s foreignness.

#YuvalHarari #technofascism #musk #peterthiel #billionaires #siliconvalley
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apple.newsYuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’ — WIREDThe academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what hope there is for superintelligence safeguarding democracy.

Digital Trends: TikTok challenger Skylight lands Mark Cuban’s backing. “As TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, a fresh contender backed by entrepreneur and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban is ready to shake things up: Skylight. Available now on the App Store and Google Play, Skylight promises a creator-friendly, open alternative designed to rival TikTok.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/digital-trends-tiktok-challenger-skylight-lands-mark-cubans-backing/

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If you want to understand the horrifying future these tech billionaire nazis have in store for humanity, it helps to understand what parts of our "glorious past" as a species they're looking to recreate. This interview with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences and media studies professor Anita Say Chan talks a bit about the history of data and eugenics, what it means that guys like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (along with most of Silicon Valley's movers and shakers) are devout believers in eugenicist philosophies, and how that's reflected in their efforts to reshape society in horrifying, and objectively fascist ways. In terms of our discussion about the uber rich fascists who heavily influence the Trump regime they bought and paid for, I'm mostly including this here to point out that these guys have gone on record in support of a lot of openly fascist shit and for the most part, your media pretends we don't already know these guys are nazis; it's not a secret, it's just not "worth mentioning" when media orgs are fawning over technofascist billionaires destroying our planet and our lives.

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech

"Big Tech successors like Musk and PayPal billionaire-turned-arms dealer Peter Thiel have overtly promoted fraudulent race science, with Musk amplifying users on X who argue that people of European descent are biologically superior. In response to another user’s deleted post suggesting that students at historically Black institutions have lower IQs, Musk posted, “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE”—diversity, equity, and inclusion, misspelled. In 2016, Thiel buddied up to a prominent white nationalist, and, the same year, was said by a Stanford dorm-mate to have complimented South Africa’s “economically sound” system of racial apartheid."

Mother JonesEugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in techA new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
#Fascism#Trump#Musk

🚨 ALERT: Silicon Valley has discovered its latest "innovation"—vibe coding! Apparently, it involves hiring people who claim to "feel" their way through code like it's some kind of mystical jazz improvisation session. 🎷🤦‍♂️ For startups, it's like intentionally inviting a tornado to your picnic and wondering why everything got blown away. 💸🌪️
soeren.codes/articles/do-not-b #vibecoding #startupinnovation #techhumor #codinglife #SiliconValley #HackerNews #ngated

www.soeren.codesSøren Johanson

MalwarebytesLabs, and good for them: Why we’re no longer doing April Fools’ Day . “… go ahead and order your Hot Dog Sparkling Water, eat your crust only pizza, or have a snooze in your banana sleeping bag. We love that. But as a cybersecurity brand we want you to feel like you can trust us—every single day of the year. If we say something is fake, then it’s fake. If we say it’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/malwarebyteslabs-why-were-no-longer-doing-april-fools-day/

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New York Times: OpenAI Completes Deal That Values Company at $300 Billion. This link goes to a gift article. “OpenAI said on Monday that it had completed a $40 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile company’s valuation from just six months ago. The new fund-raising round, led by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, values OpenAI at $300 billion, making it one of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/new-york-times-openai-completes-deal-that-values-company-at-300-billion/

#ai#finance#money
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Das Wasser in den Umleitungen, das Umwälzen von Erden und Abbau, Luft, Energieverbrauch, soziale Umformation, Gifte, Grundrente. Alle in diesem besagten Tal in der viertgrößten Ökonomie, werden #NorbertWiener, Cybernetics, gelesen oder zumindest zur Kenntnis genommen haben. Kein #SiliconValley kommt ohne Unterklassen aus. Burgerbrater, Putztrupps, Abschaum, Obdachlose.