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Comment Ebb and Flow (Score 1) 107

I don't follow politics closely, but even I can tell that the pendulum is going to swing back—how hard, I don't know; a lot can happen between now and 2028.

Almost no real change will take place, of course, but the people bitching now can go back to cheering, and the people cheering now can go back to bitching—wherein “cheering” is a ritual that mostly involves bitching about the past.

I choose to bitch in the comments section of Slashdot.

Comment Tenacity Fork (Score 5, Informative) 31

For anyone just tuning in, MuseCY Holdings Ltd. (a.k.a. Muse Group) bought out Audacity in 2021. Development direction has been iffy ever since; see the aforelinked history page for details. The fork, Tenacity, looks good but isn't available in many distros' official repos—likely because dust took so long to settle when Muse Group set off an explosion of forks by injecting Audacity with spyware (since reverted).

Comment Merit? (Score 2, Interesting) 64

This choice seems questionable. Even with my limited knowledge of the industry, I know that Blue Origin lags behind. Their crowning achievement thus far is a ten-minute, sub-orbital Katy Perry.

I tracked down the official contract, but my legalese is a little rusty. Can anyone find the non-delivery clause?

Comment Gaslighting (Score 4, Insightful) 17

Notice the narrative's attempt to divert blame toward the Web at large: “It's not our fault; your ‘misconfigured site’ is the problem.” In the real world, the LLM industry bears the onus for piping together arbitrary execution locally to arbitrary input over HTTP.

Any attempt to claim otherwise is a distraction. Disregard it.

Comment Year of the Linux Desktop (Score 0) 45

This may be the catalyst.

Historically, focus has been placed on “converting” existing users. This is an uphill battle against adults set in their ways. Kids, meanwhile, are largely blank slates, have free time, and want to play games.

Get the kids to install SteamOS, and you can have your year.

Submission + - Claude Code Source Leaked

Grady Martin writes: A security researcher has leaked a complete repository of source code for Anthropic's flagship command-line tool. The file listing was exposed via a Node Package Manager (npm) mapping, with every target publicly accessible on a Cloudflare R2 storage bucket.

$ du -hs .
35M .
$ find -type f | sed 's/^.*\.//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -bVr
1332 ts
552 tsx
18 js

Submission + - AI Data Centers Can Warm Surrounding Areas By Up To 9.1C (newscientist.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Andrea Marinoni at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues saw that the amount of energy needed to run a data centre had been steadily increasing of late and was likely to “explode” in the coming years, so wanted to quantify the impact. The researchers took satellite measurements of land surface temperatures over the past 20 years and cross-referenced them against the geographical coordinates of more than 8400 AI data centres. Recognizing that surface temperature could be affected by other factors, the researchers chose to focus their investigation on data centers located away from densely populated areas.

They discovered that land surface temperatures increased by an average of 2C (3.6F) in the months after an AI data center started operations. In the most extreme cases, the increase in temperature was 9.1C (16.4F). The effect wasn’t limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centres: the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometers away. Seven kilometers away, there was only a 30 percent reduction in the intensity. “The results we had were quite surprising,” says Marinoni. “This could become a huge problem.”

Using population data, the researchers estimate that more than 340 million people live within 10 kilometers of data centers, so live in a place that is warmer than it would be if the data centre hadn’t been built there. Marinoni says that areas including the Bajío region in Mexico and the Aragon province in Spain saw a 2C (3.6F) temperature increase in the 20 years between 2004 and 2024 that couldn’t otherwise be explained.

Submission + - Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub, GitLab (neowin.net)

darwinmac writes: Neowin reports that on GitHub, Microsoft appears to be injecting ads into pull requests generated by Copilot. There are now thousands of pull requests containing the phrase, "Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast."

A quick cursory search of that phrase on GitHub reveals this is not an isolated incident. The exact same promotional text appears in over 11,000 different pull requests across thousands of repos on GitHub. Even merge requests on GitLab are not safe from the injection.

At first, you might think the ads are coming from Raycasts Copilot extension, which lets you start and track Copilot coding agent tasks, kick off Copilot jobs, monitor progress, and manage pull requests from within the Raycast launcher using prompts. But the ads appear to be tied to Microsofts Copilot coding agent tips rather than Raycast itself. Neowin adds:

If you look at the raw markdown of the affected pull requests, there is a hidden HTML comment, START COPILOT CODING AGENT TIPS, placed just before the ad tip. This suggests Microsoft is using the comment to insert a tip that points back to its own developer ecosystem or partner integrations.

There is a growing push for monetization in generative AI, as labs and platforms try to cover the massive costs of inference computing.

With an over $400 billion gap between the money invested in AI data centers and the actual revenue these products generate, Silicon Valley slowly returned to the tested and trusted playbook: advertising.

Ads on generative AI platforms are already proving lucrative. Just weeks after launching ads for Free and Go tier users, OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hit a $100 million annualized run rate. The company now plans to expand the ads to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and roll out a self-serve ad platform for businesses.

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