Oracle have laid off 30k employees today. They did it to personal email accounts at 6am 🫡 saying they needed the money to spend on GenAI instead. thenextweb.com/news/oracle-lay…
I have added an AI policy for this website (TL;DR: there is no AI content here). I am not categorically opposed to carefully-supervised LLM use, but see no place for it on a human-written IndieWeb.
We need to start building a list of Open Source infrastructure projects (and project forks) that categorically reject contributions from LLM slopmongers, so we know what’ll be safe to keep using and contributing to in the long term.
"Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"
[. . . ] From April 24 [ . . . ] inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are not affected by this update.
This approach aligns with established industry practices [ . . . ]
"At 10:52 UTC on March 24, 2026, litellm version 1.82.8 was published to PyPI. The release contains a malicious .pth file (litellm_init.pth) that executes automatically on every Python process startup when litellm is installed in the environment."
litellm version 1.82.8 on PyPI contains a malicious .pth file that harvests SSH keys, cloud credentials, and secrets on every Python startup, then attempts lateral movement across Kubernetes clusters.
I just opened a great role in my team at @openproject: Senior UI/UX Designer. 🥳 #getfediHired
Anyone looking for a full-time, remote* #design & #research role in #foss?
In case you would like to shape the future of OpenProject in a user-centric product team, please apply with your portfolio, CV and a cover letter. We want to hear from you and not your #genAI. Thanks! :)
*In a location within 2 hours (time-zone) from Berlin.
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B parameter hybrid model combining Mamba state-space models, transformers, and mixture-of-experts architecture. Optimized for Blackwell GPUs, it delivers up to 7.5x higher throughput than Qwen for agentic AI workflows. Available under open weights license for commercial use. venturebeat.com/technology/nvi… #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIResearch #Nvidia
This group "The Library of Babel" is confronting the invasion of #genAI into everything we do, seems interesting:
"a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression. "
We are a global community of education professionals who refuse the call for generative AI (GenAI) adoption in schools and colleges, and reject the narrative of its inevitability.
(I would sign it but they want my email and I can't access the terms of service to check what they want to do with it..)
"A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call."
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
