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China sentences official to death for taking \$325m in bribes (r/news)

• Andy_LaVolpe: Embezzlement and bribery should be treated as treason. Public officials that accept bribes should be treated as traitors to the people.
• Quinocco: Not a fan of capital punishment, but if you’re gonna have it, I’m all for using it for rich people crimes.
• Wonderful-Process792: Three hundred and twenty-five million? If this is true, aside from this guy’s personal actions, somebody is not minding the shop. That’s a lot of money to go unnoticed for so long.

ICE agent fatally shoots motorist during traffic stop in Houston (r/news)

• 2daytrending: A loss of life should always trigger serious scrutiny, regardless of agency involved.
• limbweaver: it’s not a traffic stop, ICE can’t do traffic stops.
• TheObsidianHawk: This just in, there was no body cam footage. It went missing.

‘Buckling’ beams at Manhattan high-rise under construction trigger mass evacuations (r/news)

• Drum_Roll_Plz: FDNY confirmed the building is still actively moving and they cant get anyone inside to shore it up until it stops.
• airwalker08: The building has not moved since 12 p.m. That’s a sentence I never expected to read
• OpenMindedMajor: Surprised to hear this. The architect, Gensler, has a pretty great reputation within design/construction. Interested to know what’s happened here

IOC lifts suspension and paves way for Russia to compete at LA 2028 Olympics | International Olympic Committee (r/news)

• invyros: FIFA and IOC competing for least moral sports org.
• tanbug: Is there a secret competition among countries, organisations and companies to become the biggest assholes on the planet?
• Saint-Caligula: Trump must have called the IOC as well.

Three tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz as US revokes license authorizing sale of Iranian oil (r/news)

• Prudent_Rice7840: But the Memorandum of Understanding!
• Fallouttgrrl: On a Tuesday? kalshi bettors must be so upset right now
• Ive_seen_things_that: Good news is Trump gets another peace deal with Iran!!

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MLE - Anthropic vs Meta (Blind)

• daTing3 (Meta): Why’d you even ask this here. Humble brag?
• dnxuli (Meta): Ladies and gentleman, op is what we call “hutya” ⚡️
• apple145 (Meta): Is this some kind of sick joke

Everyone wanted to join either Facebook or Google. What went wrong? (Blind)

• !AI-native (Meta): You are kidding me if it still isn’t
• hopeonly (Google): I joined for a few reasons but prestige wasn’t one of them. Am I the only one?
• oeGp70 (ex-AT&T): swe was never prestigious to begin with. only in the minds of other swe. doctor or pe/vc is more prestigious.

Stay at Amazon or join Salesforce? (Blind)

• jaskeerat (Salesforce): If your wlb is ok, stay. I made this move, there’s no learning or career progress here. No wlb either in a lot of teams
• Grind_LC_8 (Salesforce): Stay at Amazon, I too switched from Amazon to Salesforce but regret it now. There is no learning here
• carenoone (Salesforce): Salesforce is very chaotic now

Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment (r/technology)

• buttorsomething: Surprising no one.
• sniksniksnek: “Dad, how did we win the war against the machines?” “Crackheads, son. Never forget, we owe them our lives.”
• chevalier716: Finally, meth heads everywhere have found a way to work for the benefit of their communities.

Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined (r/technology)

• neat_stuff: The guy who brought us the VR headset Metaverse might not always get things right? Impossible.
• Imaginary_Manner_556: This guy is so lucky he bought instagram. His own ideas suck.
• Crivos: AI bubble go pop?

Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up (r/technology)

• Impossible-Ad6326: Because it’s shit, forced down our throats and people generally don’t like to have shit forced down their throats.
• antaresiv: It makes search more complicated because now I gotta fact check what it gives me
• odelay321: Copilot, how do you remove copilot from my pc?

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Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits as boot camp outbreak sickens nearly 300 (r/news)

• StevieOfPhoenix: Wow it’s almost as if vaccines could have prevented this in the first place.
• OrderAdditional1791: “Nobody knew” this could happen
• TheRexRider: Ok. So what have we learned?

Camp Mystic, site of deadly Texas flooding, files for bankruptcy (r/news)

• Icouldusesomerock: And that’s what happens when you don’t prioritize saftey
• Dull-Ad8161: It should also be facing criminal charges.
• CaseyAnthonysMouth: CANNOT BELIEVE they were trying to reopen this year.

Arby’s manager accused of giving customer herpes after spitting in food, court records say (r/news)

• Similar-Wolverine-10: As if I needed any more reason to stop eating fast food.
• FlyingFlipPhone: This is why you should NEVER return food to the kitchen.
• Health_throwaway__: And this is why I don’t eat out

Millions lose food stamps under Trump cuts. Arizona is hardest hit (r/news)

• justmitzie: Poverty exists not because we can’t feed the poor, but because we can’t satisfy the rich.
• africanlivedit: Time for those who voted for him to pull themselves up from their bootstraps!
• Fit-Let8175: On the bright side, the very rich are richer still!

Powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas (r/news)

• lee7on1: Early videos are already looking very bad, this is so sad…
• Itzli: This is awful, it’s the last thing they needed. Fuerza Venezuela!
• sjhesketh: We’re in Aruba on vacation and felt an aftershock around 6PM. Very noticeable.

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Does anyone use Gemini for coding inside Google? (Blind)

• lppmsj (Google): Everybody
• fcEs35 (Google): No we like to give token money to other companies instead.
• fhfdodmk (Google): Everyone

The golden age of tech is over (Blind)

• horn dog (Meta): Elon
• slackerswe (Microsoft): ZIRP
• gh443 (Google): Chinese 996 workers and AI

Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will “Never” Go Back to Normal (r/technology)

• zooommsu: They have to say this because there are many people postponing purchases and skipping updates in the hope that things will improve in the future.
• cotd345: It’s in their best interest to say that now. Then the bubble pops and the story changes to ‘we could have never predicted that’.
• pazz: So Bitcoin fucked up the GPU market and now AI is fucking up the RAM market? This reality sucks.

AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them (r/technology)

• mokunuimoo: You thought we were getting AGI and we’d live in Star Trek but instead it’s going to be The Slopularity and Idiocracy
• Niceromancer: They ain’t learning shit.
• wesweb: this will end up being the biggest waste of capital investment in history

Windows 10 support extended to 2027 for free — Is this Microsoft admitting Windows 11 isn’t enough? (r/technology)

• View-Maximum: This is corporate customers noping out of an expensive hardware upgrade.
• SlowCrates: Windows 11 sucks.
• ZombieZookeeper: Linux only just removed the 486 code, just saying.

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Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr. (r/news)

• handDrawnEevee: I am honestly surprised that something as risky as stem cell injection is the goto for ‘treating’ autism among antivaxxers. Like it’s so much more complicated than just a getting a vaccine, you can’t be anti-vax and pro-unregulated stem cell treatments, that’s nuts.
• avid-shrug: Medical experimentation on the disabled is honestly the natural conclusion of the anti-vax movement.
• imoftendisgruntled: Don’t the conspiracy theorists think that stem cells are from abducted children?

Judge orders Justin Baldoni to cover Blake Lively’s legal fees for Wayfarer lawsuit (r/news)

• SquareSecond: Don’t pay expensive lawyers to file meritless lawsuits.
• shanghaisnaggle: Let us never speak of this again.
• rThundrbolt: Counterpoint: can everyone just stop talking about these people?

Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape charge, inspiring outrage from his daughter (r/news)

• SpaceForceAwakens: Would almost be more acceptable if they just let him go free and stated they don’t care.
• BaronGreywatch: Rapist gets 90 days.
• BiteMeHomie: That’s it, we are officially beyond parody.

Active shooter barricaded in building in Midland County, Michigan; police officer, civilian wounded (r/news)

• comfortably_nuumb: I work in the building across the street from that hospital. Yesterday was extremely surreal.
• Expensive_Plastic186: I love my country so much, but holy shit America do you have a gun violence problem. I can’t even imagine
• Only-Newspaper-8593: This shit is exhausting

Gene Shalit, ‘Today’ show movie critic, dies at 100 (r/news)

• AudibleNod: I love this quote from Roger Ebert “Gene Shalit has a merry way with words, and a mustache to match.”
• skarekroh: Gene Shalit was still alive?
• ThePiggySlasher: 100 years old. Just a kid.

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New Harvard study proves AI isn’t a bubble? (Blind)

• placement (Amazon): This is not definition of non bubble
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): Result depends on who paid for the study.
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): You can find a study for almost everything your heart desires.

Made it to the final round at OpenAI and got rejected by someone who had been at the company less than a week (Blind)

• cQfh64 (Intuit): It is all luck my friend. Accept it and move on..
• VLSy66 (Apple): Maybe this person was hired for your position.
• fjvueje (Amazon): I hate such a 0/1 interview outcome while the process is so thorough

Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware through anime girl wallpapers (r/technology)

• M39FG9SFGQ: That’s hilarious
• xangbar: Glad I stuck to my Genshin wallpapers instead. Been using the same ones for 5+ years.
• BiBoFieTo: They attacked at our weakest moment.

AMD silently removes memory encryption from GPUs without explanation (r/technology)

• JackSpyder: Forced by the US gov and cant legally say why? My bet.
• Super_flywhiteguy: If it sounds like a backdoor being cracked open, its because its a backdoor being cracked open.
• lazyhustlermusic: They sure get more douchebaggy as their market cap increases.

ICE appears to be buying immigrants’ tax data from LexisNexis (r/technology)

• drewc717: I had a business law professor years ago whose life’s work was basically hating the fact that LexisNexis existed
• Aggeloz: How tf is this kind of data even allowed to be sold and bought????
• SmoothConfection1115: It’s almost definitely not just “tax data” like this headline might make you think (to me I think of W2s and 1040s). LN is an incredibly powerful tool to find all kinds of information about people from disparate sources. Reverse searching phone numbers and email addresses is a common one, but it can also provide detailed information about employment, assets, criminal history, traffic stops, and associates. LN doesn’t produce anything but just slurps up data from all over the place and makes a centralized place to search it.

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400 Masked White Nationalist March on Through Washington D.C. chanting “Reclaim America” (r/news)

• MacrotonicWave: look it’s the folks maga told me didn’t exist
• nd_annajones: Reclaim America from whom? You all seem to be in charge of everything
• WallyMcBeetus: They took socialist transit to get there.

Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in California, car left with major damage, authorities say (r/news)

• StuffonBookshelfs: …just another old person that should have had their license revoked a long time ago.
• kna5041: Time to hand the keys over if you can’t drive around a parked car without hitting it.
• insertnamehere57: Wait is this a new story? This happened again? why is he still driving?!?

Over 842,000 without power across the country as US is blanketed by heatwave (r/news)

• xXxSovietxXx: In Michigan, where we already pay ridiculous rates to DTE (who also haven’t paid taxes in a decade), say they won’t have it fixed by Monday at 11:30pm by the latest
• altmannnn3: Wish we had funds for better infrastructure… I don’t think I’ve heard that word once from the president…
• bluehawk232: Well the important thing is the oil execs made a lot of money

Ukraine hits major oil terminal in Russia’s St Petersburg (r/news)

• Dwayla: Never forget, Ukraine goes after military targets, Russia goes after hospitals, schools, and kindergartens. They are terrorists.
• D00bage: Interesting how far they have come now that they stopped talking to the White House
• Knightrider319: Never too early to start the 4th fireworks!

What movie is a perfect 10/10, but you never want to watch it again? (r/AskReddit)

• newmaninlaca: Dear Zachary
• Effstop1: Trainspotting. It’s great. But I’m a recovering addict (luckily not H) and the downward spiral of watching addiction ruin lives is a bit too much nowadays.
• Queasy-Cap1666: Schindler’s List. One of the greatest films ever made, but it’s emotionally exhausting

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Nvidia can’t even afford free coffee for its employees. Why? (Blind)

• dddpj (Palo Alto Networks): Is this true? The richest company in history doesn’t give free coffee and snacks?
• coh26 (ex-Honeywell): Meta can’t afford to keep its employees. Why?
• h7k-6gjL (NVIDIA): Yeah I’ll take no layoff fears over free coffee. Especially since I’m fully remote. RTO? Never heard of it

Lost hope after layoffs and failed interviews (Blind)

• dnxuli (Meta): Hang in there bud! Market is brutal!
• fiiope (eBay): But you made lots of money off coinbase already
• Melly00 (ByteDance): Invest more in your interview prep. You already converted well with screens & onsites, you just aren’t capitalizing on them. The markets tough, 2.5 is nothing

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content (r/technology)

• Yung_zu: This is a pretty concise example of the reality of having these people be our “job creators”
• Starship_Taru: I feel like if I did half the shit meta did I’d be in jail
• -ghostinthemachine-: This is a normal part of testing model guardrails (red teaming), not just for your own safety evaluations but to compare the safety profile of competing models to your own. In fact, it is almost always done in coordination with the model providers to let them know ahead of time so you don’t get banned.

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium (r/technology)

• 404PUNK: Crazy to think we’re building a ton of these things on purpose. Its almost like someone in charge thought we weren’t killing the planet fast enough.
• Daimakku1: The fact that politicians were/are giving tax and other incentives for these data centers to be built in their areas tells you everything you need to know about who they really work for.. and it ain’t us. There is nothing but downsides to people who live near these data centers.
• mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw: Tell me again how people opposing data centers are just irrational Luddites.

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country (r/technology)

• Annonnymist: Trump wants to pardon 250 people today then this Air Force gentleman should also be pardoned
• shocontinental: It couldn’t have been him, he was with me the whole time . . . at church
• binding_swamp: Rise up! Flock surveillance rollout is a bad development and will only get worse if people don’t push back.

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Autopsy released of Mississippi baby killed by police (r/news)

• MaidoftheBrins: Why is it taking so long for any video to be released? Walmart, dashcam and body cam all need to be given to Crump and the ME.
• mustardmeated: The cop’s gonna get off on qualified immunity, without a doubt.
• PorQuepin3: The US is a third world country

More people than thought may be at risk for red meat allergy caused by ticks (r/news)

• whowhodillybar: It’s crazy to think of how life changing it would be to just become allergic to meat and potentially dairy.
• dskot: My MAGA neighbor just put a sign out front of his house about how Billy Gates is behind this one and they want us all to eat lab meat. Wonderful.
• FireRotor: I met a guy in French lick Indiana, who would smoke meat for veterans and I asked him what he smoked and he said just chicken because everyone has the damn allergy.

Vatican excommunicates all members of ultra-conservative rebel group SSPX (r/news)

• CoalCrackerKid: Chicago Pope doesn’t play around
• rhino910: This was a good move by the Pope. A radical right-wing group in the Church that refuses to acknowledge the Pope or the Church’s teachings is bad for the church
• GearhedMG: SSPX Excommunicado 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time.

‘Moscow will fall’ — 13 Russian power stations shut down across occupied Ukraine, military says (r/worldnews)

• Scribble_Box: What an absolute, colossal fuck up this has been for Putin. You love to see it. Slava Ukraini!
• BKinBC: SOMEBODY has to be thinking, ‘maybe I can get him near the window…’
• MustardEnema007: Have they hit the distilleries?

What’s a movie that was clearly meant to start a franchise but failed? (r/AskReddit)

• wish1977: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• MidnightPrevious4473: Eragon
• Tels315: Jumper

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Google L7 to Anthropic T6 (Blind)

• 6️⃣7️⃣: You can say no
• scHR67 (Uber): they starting to low ball now hahah
• BLaA58 (Google): Lol no

OpenAI Proposes 5% US Gov Stake: A New Precedent for Tech Regulation? (Blind)

• iqbdh (Meta): Scam Altman
• dfgjbvv (Meta): Corrupt mfers
• 46cahdY (DoorDash): Bribe.

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI (r/technology)

• Sufficient-Skill9530: Says the guy that always talks about the antichrist and looks like a demon.
• Tessa7: Another person that ran out of people to tell him ’no’ a long time ago and now thinks he has some sort of special insights
• Silicon_Knight: I never thought anyone could make Elon Musk look sane.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!” (r/technology)

• ottwebdev: Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers from saying what he really thinks during live interview…..
• williamgman: Is ketamine the new CEO breakfast of champions?
• jobrien80: Congratulations to Drugs. Clear winner of the war on drugs.

Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them (r/technology)

• BoppinMonkey: Welcome to Little Tikes Democracy. You may be holding a wheel, but Big Brother is pushing you wherever he wants.
• Hi_Im_Dadbot: Someone should call the police about that.
• sad_cosmic_joke: It’s almost as if “fighting crime” isn’t the actual purpose of these systems??