“Our customers' needs are shifting, the business models that serve them are shifting, and that means the work itself -- what we do, where we focus, and how we're organized -- has to transform too.”

We haven't a clue how to make a buck out of AI either :o

They're embedding thousands of engineers inside client organizations not just to "help" with AI implementations, but to hoover up proprietary data, workflows, and problems then repackage those insights as shiny new "MICROS~1 innovations."

It's the same game Google played with search: results ranked by how many links pointed to a site. Now with AI, the answers you get are mostly remixed from other people's conversations and data, creating a convincing illusion of intelligence on the other end.

Forward-deployed engineering? More like forward-deployed surveillance with a consulting invoice attached.

> The article notes that in May the chief executive of California's Port of Long Beach "launched a cyber-defense operations center to thwart tens of thousands of cyberattacks daily, which jeopardize computer systems and all equipment connected to them."

If only there were a device that could isolate your private network from the public network. Something like a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

The irony of Dish's Open RAN dreams ending with them becoming a heavy AT&T reseller is delicious. This is the classic "monetize it or lose it" telecom shuffle. Dish spent years (and billions) trying to become the fourth full MNO with its own Open RAN 5G network and Boost Mobile, only to hit the wall on scale, debt, and FCC buildout pressure.

This is the kind of long-game persistence the FSF does best. Grinding through 85GB of extracted firmware from 200+ LineageOS packages, dumping it all into PostgreSQL for cross-device pattern matching. The baseband maze is brutal: legal certification, FCC-style signatures, carrier lock-in. Every blob they document or replace moves the needle for existing projects like postmarketOS or Replicant. ref

Must be a slow news day. The end user has to download and install the “malware” and then give it the admin password.

> And now Meta gets to learn how Big Tobacco felt.

They'll finance reports that say Social Media is good for the kids. Oh - wait ;)

How about informing users when you pass their IP address to the Feds:

Transparency Report: January to June 2025

“As for global legal requests from government and law enforcement agencies, there was a 27% increase in legal requests to remove content from Reddit and a 12% increase in non-emergency legal requests for Redditors’ account information.”

Exercising a cynical loophole for Broadcom. They can pretty much ditch any contract they want just by playing musical chairs with the product.

Microsoft under Bill Gates, an extortion & protection racket ?

Groklaw: Microsoft Litigation Resource Page

In order to function, every such AI requires training on such copyright works else what you have is a gigantic doorstop. To claim otherwise is entirely specious.

* All my own words, without putting it through ClippyAI :)