Comment They all signed an NDA (Score -1) 119
All operate in clandestine shadow wars from proxy channels. The Chinese bots and Russian bots are really really stupid.
Comment Gravity Damp Pillar Refraction (Score -1) 47
GDPR is the pulse of life. It is the permanence and the oculus which promotes it. It is the belonging and the pathways of necessity. To opt out is to never have been.
Comment Min Neural Water (Score -1) 112
Or they could have sold 100-year bonds and made tap water illegal. Why not exert restraint so the left is more right?
Submission + - Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens to Rewrite Legacy Code (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Gen Z can’t catch a break. Entry-level jobs are vanishing; some 40% of bosses say they plan to hire fewer grads because AI can do the job cheaper, and young workers are routinely slammed for showing up late and refusing to put in overtime for free. Cisco’s president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel isn’t buying it—he’s just handed one of the company’s biggest jobs to a 27-year-old he found hidden in the org chart “five levels” below him. “I’ve given him unlimited tokens because he’s going to refactor code,” Patel told Fortune at a small roundtable dinner. “So I’m like, you can go, you can go nuts.”
The “him” is Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, or “Paddy,” as Patel affectionately calls him. He joined Cisco in 2025 after the $429 billion tech giant acquired EzDubs, the real-time translation startup Krishnamurthy cofounded in 2023. And despite coming in as a former founder with CEO experience, he was, in Patel’s words, “buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic.” That changed when Patel dropped into Cisco’s San Francisco office, and the pair got talking. Krishnamurthy reckoned he could rewrite Cisco’s legacy code with a two-person team. Patel says even the most AI-forward people on his own team weren’t thinking that way.
So he has given himself four weeks to prove it, with the final goal of rewriting 98% of Cisco’s legacy code within 24 months. Now, he’s on the hunt for more Paddys: young hires who will “challenge the system and the status quo,” or, as he puts it, be “an energizer bunny that just goes out and kind of revs everyone up.”
The “him” is Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, or “Paddy,” as Patel affectionately calls him. He joined Cisco in 2025 after the $429 billion tech giant acquired EzDubs, the real-time translation startup Krishnamurthy cofounded in 2023. And despite coming in as a former founder with CEO experience, he was, in Patel’s words, “buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic.” That changed when Patel dropped into Cisco’s San Francisco office, and the pair got talking. Krishnamurthy reckoned he could rewrite Cisco’s legacy code with a two-person team. Patel says even the most AI-forward people on his own team weren’t thinking that way.
So he has given himself four weeks to prove it, with the final goal of rewriting 98% of Cisco’s legacy code within 24 months. Now, he’s on the hunt for more Paddys: young hires who will “challenge the system and the status quo,” or, as he puts it, be “an energizer bunny that just goes out and kind of revs everyone up.”
Submission + - Tech-Brah Sam Altman Wants All RAM For AI (tomshardware.com)
Gilmoure writes: Looks like OpenAI CEO wants to own all the computing resources and rent out terminals to the world, as a way of propping up his business plan now that debt ridden AI companies are teetering on the edge.
Altman's talk suggests that the company would prefer that more RAM go to OpenAI's data centers rather than home computers, which also sparks enthusiast fears of not being able to own your own hardware or software, but rather rent an agent and a computer in the cloud.
Submission + - Persisent SSH Backdoor found in Claude Code VS Extension (phorion.io)
2phar writes: Phorion has detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. It's a bad one, folks..
Submission + - Pope Leo XIV Calls for Autonomous Weapons Ban and Warns Against AI Personhood (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Pope Leo XIV is calling for concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons and warning that granting AI systems legal personhood could obscure human responsibility. In a thread on X, he says decisions affecting human life, freedom, and the use of force must remain under effective, informed human oversight. NERDS.xyz examines his demands for shared standards, independent oversight, and remedies for people harmed by AI.
The pope describes machines as tools rather than people, warning that AI personhood could leave victims confronting a faceless entity. He argues that a reliable system serving people is more valuable than an exceptionally powerful one whose consequences cannot be adequately predicted or controlled. The accountability question extends beyond weapons: when an AI system causes harm, how do we ensure the people behind it remain answerable?
The pope describes machines as tools rather than people, warning that AI personhood could leave victims confronting a faceless entity. He argues that a reliable system serving people is more valuable than an exceptionally powerful one whose consequences cannot be adequately predicted or controlled. The accountability question extends beyond weapons: when an AI system causes harm, how do we ensure the people behind it remain answerable?
Comment Michael Checksum (Score -1) 152
...criticized Sega audio. And monomorphic types. And white broncos with a rhinoplasty glove fitting of a white royal aristocrat Master whose System ignored poverty and AIDS among minors. Games on XBox use long-polling until jailbroken.
Comment Bier Frau After (Score -1) 147
Pass a field test and I'll shave my head. Better yet, I'll accept a role as ambassador to Saudi Arabia and marry Tom Brady's ex-wife.
Comment Holistic Capitulation (Score -1) 120
I think you meant to say Holistic Capitulation, but sarcastically imply long devotion.
Comment If you don't like Canada, move to poverty (Score -1) 120
Googld people tend to leave a spool of ribbon, so you can trace them to a Death Stranding metaphor retrospective.
Comment Nonprofit Education Skin-heads (NES) (Score -1) 109
The Eurozone proposed haircuts, and socialist drones found a new enemy: Super Ma-Zelda FF 3. The Petrodollar Pyramid appears conspicuous next to a Fortnite Fortune. Tech experts cite media formats as a historical concern. But also a vulnerability to supply chains and telemetrics. ROM hackers should remake Hideo Kojima as a $5000 6-ft vinyl plushie.
Comment Anti Jamaican King Charles (Score -1) 14
Imagine you submit formal papers after 300 years to account for colonial injustice. It is a legitimate wager... or is it? Our Global South demands the ICC to value a hidden facet of history. An insulting retro-future, enforced by a Brotherhood of BRICS built on toppled realty. Is Poland next, and Taiwan?
Comment Finger Symbols (Score -1) 100
Fedora error asks Bob to report with symbols; Bob feeds Linux. Linus uses Fedora; Linus feeds Bob. Dancing girl is unharmed.
Comment Foreign debt is exempt from corrected annuity (Score -1) 81
So desperate woman are still easy to stigmatize.
