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QuantumFunnelon Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

Great, let's keep expanding privacy-destroying products and hyper-surveillance in the name of corporate profits!

QuantumFunnelon Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)

Have unpopular solution or mitigation strategy, hire consultants, execute, blame the consultants

QuantumFunnelon My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto

Geohot should focus his attention on jailbreaking cars now

QuantumFunnelon New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

The entities that own the data centers (the mag7) famously do not pay much in taxes due to their extensive use of tax havens and loopholes

QuantumFunnelon GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

As with all things, the answer is always "it depends" based on what is being optimized

QuantumFunnelon I used sound waves to make espresso

Manual lever machines like the Flair use even less energy. This is silly.

QuantumFunnelon Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

What's your point? Yandex is quite a competent search engine

QuantumFunnelon A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline

Being amazed at how that's allowed displays a naiveté only one could have if they've never been in the process. What you describe is exactly what being in academia is all about for the last couple generations. Being a grad student sounds prestigious to an outsider, but the system is literally built to exploit their labor.

QuantumFunnelon French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data

So that if you ever step out of line with regards to what the government deems "worthy" behavior (whatever the hell that means at any given moment) you can be de-banked and effectively excluded from participating in society

QuantumFunnelon If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?

A net worth millionaire nowadays is just a person who bought a single family home at least 10 years ago. A million bucks is not what it used to be.

QuantumFunnelon Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

Maybe it's time the economy shifts from having to prioritize the investors for everything

QuantumFunnelon We accepted surveillance as default

Many of them in this very forum

QuantumFunnelon Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds

None of the big artists people want to see ever play at those venues

QuantumFunnelon Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

How convenient that the government doesn't make the numbers public and then have to issue statements like this when journalists do some digging on the matter

QuantumFunnelon You are not your job

That's a very privileged thing to say about a career where the tools to replace developers did not exist

QuantumFunnelon OpenRocket

Helps to have terrain around your country that makes it one giant fort

QuantumFunnelon Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-a...

QuantumFunnelon Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

Who needs rockets when you have autonomous mini drones

QuantumFunnelon The Waymo World Model

Also known as a monopoly. This should terrify us all.

QuantumFunnelon Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

TSA has always been security theater

QuantumFunnelon All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision

Pepper your angus because that's the endgame of all the people playing this game right now

QuantumFunnelon Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

And this is exactly why I never connect my TV to wifi

QuantumFunnelon I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

People are terrible at keeping score for others, because they're usually only paying attention to themselves

QuantumFunnelon In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

Well of course someone dismissing this would be the top comment here

QuantumFunnelon Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

QuantumFunnelon OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss

The only thing I trust google to do is abandon software and give me a terrible support experience

QuantumFunnelon Open Social

Private likes are the only way forward on social media if we're to finally decouple free speech from the vindictive outrage mob feedback loop

QuantumFunnelon Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

This is probably better evidence than any public filing

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/09/01/office-cmbs-delinquency-ra...

QuantumFunnelon The Storm Hits the Art Market

Labubu

QuantumFunnelon Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277241662...