/tech/ - Technology

The power of AI utilized to synergize a never-ending stream of corporate buzzword slides:
https://brightpath-global-solutions.com/

Remember a few months ago when AIbros said that water usage for data centres is a non-issue?

Well Google was finally forced to reveal the numbers for a planned data centre after an episode of legal wrangling, and it turns out it can use 2 to 8 million gallons per day.

https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2026/02/26/google-data-center-water-estimates-go-public-residents-in-roanoke-and-botetourt-react/

https://youtu.be/7A2_YPtN1Eo?si=GU7bXH1AUl6tL83N

OLMo from Ai2 is supposed to actually be open source.

Lifehack: When looking for a job, impress the HR AI with this simple trick.

Seems like grok is disabled on xitter for non-premium users lmao

This was probably something I had envisioned ever since claude tried to "rewrite" GCC (and failed): people are using LLMs to strip copyleft licenses, in this case, chardet, a python library to detect string encoding. One of the maintainers took it upon himself to rewrite the entire project with claude, released it as v7.0, changed the license from LGPL to MIT, and then compared both codebases to demonstrate that it's not a derivative. I'm no legal expert and I have no idea what's the legal basis for these things, and I don't know if the FSF is going to try and litigate it and set precedent, but it seems like a huge trend that could undermine copyleft itself

Relevant discussion on github: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

comrade Ed Zitron, eyes glowing with unearthly prophetic light, has declared a new epoch in history:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-beginning-of-history/
>I believe we’re in a new era. It’s entirely different. Stop trying to say “but in the past,” because the past isn’t that useful, and it’s only useful if you’re capable of evaluating it critically, skeptically, and making sure that it’s actually the same rather than it feeling like it is.
>I keep calling this era “The Beginning of History,” not because it directly reflects Francis Fukuyama’s theory (which relates to democracies), but because I believe that those who succeed in this world are not those who are desperate to neatly fit it into the historical failures or successes of the past, but are willing to stare at it with the cold, hard fury of the present.
>There are many signs that the past no longer makes sense. The collapse of SaaS (which I’ll cover in this week’s premium), the collapse of the business models of both venture capital and private equity, the collapse of democracies under the weight of fascism because the opposition parties never seem to give enough of a fuck about the experiences of regular people.
>That’s because using the past to dictate what will happen in the future is masturbatory. It allows you to feel smart and say “I know the most about anything, which means I know what’s going on.” It is, much like an LLM, assuming that simply reading enough is what makes somebody smart, that shoving a bunch of text in your head — whether or not you understand it is immaterial — is what makes somebody know something or good at something.

>>32867
>AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses
i will thanks

Google does not "start" a state of emergency in the sense of a government declaration; however, they frequently issue "emergency security updates" for billions of users when critical vulnerabilities are actively exploited in the wild. [1, 2, 3]
As of March 14, 2026, Google confirmed two new zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910) and released an emergency update to address them. [2]
Key Details of the Current Situation

* What's Happening: Attackers are currently exploiting "zero-day" flaws, which means they were using these security holes before a fix was available.
* Target: These vulnerabilities typically impact the V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome, allowing remote attackers to execute malicious code on your device via specially crafted web pages.
* Impacted Platforms: All versions of Google Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux are affected. [2, 4, 5, 6, 7]

How to Protect Your Device
Google urges all 3.5 billion Chrome users to update their browser immediately to ensure they are protected. [2, 8]

1. Open Chrome on your computer.
2. Click More (three dots) in the top right corner.
3. Go to Settings > About Chrome.
4. If an update is available, Chrome will download it automatically.
5. Click Relaunch to finish the installation. [9, 10, 11, 12]

Note: While your standard tabs will reopen after a restart, Incognito (private) tabs will not. Be sure to save any work in private windows before restarting. [13, 14, 15, 16]

[1] [https://www.forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/09/18/google-issues-emergency-update-for-all-chrome-users-attacks-underway/)
[2] [https://www.forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2026/03/14/google-zero-day-alert-for-35-billion-chrome-users-attacks-underway/)
[3] [https://www.android.com](https://www.android.com/intl/en_au/safety/emergency-help/emergency-location-service/how-it-works/#:~:text=Google%20does%20not%20get%20any%20emergency%20locations,the%20purposes%20of%20making%20an%20emergency%20call/text.)
[4] [https://www.forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2026/02/19/google-issues-emergency-chrome-update---attacks-underway/)
[5] [https://www.forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/11/19/attacks-confirmed-google-issues-emergency-update-for-2-billion-chrome-users/)
[6] [https://moxso.com](https://moxso.com/blog/google-issues-emergency-chrome-update)
[7] [https://thehackernews.com](https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/new-chrome-zero-day-actively-exploited.html#:~:text=7151.68%20allowed%20a%20remote%20attacker%20to%20potentially,on%20the%20NIST%27s%20National%20Vulnerability%20Database%20%28NVD%29.)
[8] [https://tech.yahoo.com](https://tech.yahoo.com/articles/google-zero-day-alert-3-141027346.html#:~:text=Google%20Zero%2DDay%20Alert%20For%203.5%20Billion%20Chrome,Underway.%20Google%20issues%20emergency%20Chrome%20security%20update.)
[9] [https://www.malwarebytes.com](https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/update-chrome-now-zero-day-bug-allows-code-execution-via-malicious-webpages#:~:text=To%20update%20manually%2C%20click%20the%20More%20menu,and%20you%27ll%20be%20protected%20against%20these%20vulnerabilities.)
[10] [https://www.ndtv.com](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/government-issues-high-severity-alert-for-google-chrome-users-11013529#:~:text=The%20national%20cybersecurity%20agency%20has%20warned%20people,the%20three%2Ddot%20menu%20in%20the%20top%2Dright%20corner.)
[11] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zi3x3AmN_3A)
[12] [https://www.facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/GBNewsOnline/videos/google-issues-an-emergency-chrome-update-to-protect-users-google-tech-security/24123633503954468/)
[13] [https://www.forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/06/05/google-issues-emergency-update-for-all-3-billion-chrome-users/)
[14] [https://www.forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/10/google-issues-emergency-update-for-all-3-billion-chrome-users-attacks-confirmed/)
[15] [https://www.forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/07/01/google-confirms-emergency-update-for-all-chrome-users-attacks-underway/)
[16] [https://www.forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2026/02/06/new-chrome-browser-security-alert---restart-now-google-says/#:~:text=The%20security%20update%20only%20%E2%80%9Capplies%20the%20next,aside%20from%20Incognito%20windows%20for%20obvious%20reasons.)

>>32875
It basically rapes their search engine like a total greg

>>32865

ed zitron is a clickbait shill who paywalls his own blog posts

and we're not in a "new era" at all, the world has been through this kind of thing before during the industrial revolution when unrestrained capitalism destroyed the economy and now it's happening again.

studying history is not "masturbatory" it's just basic common sense, human civilization is an extremely stable system that seldom deviates from its patterns.

how long do you think it will be before people finally realize that donald trump died in office long ago and all of his public appearances and speeches have been ai-generated?

there was already a new thread here >>32796

>>32882
> the world has been through this kind of thing before during the industrial revolution
i think the industrial revolution counts as an era, seems like a total nitpick. i understand where you're coming from, but this is not aimed at historians but at, like, VCs who say this is the exact same scenario as the dotcom bubble. he could've phrased it differently i guess, but the guy is like a video game reviewer-turned-tech-blogger-turned-figurehead-for-skeptics

Lol.

https://www.ft.com/content/c26d916c-ca1a-4fbe-9b17-6f94d14f222a

All these AI companies hate you and want you to be a slave and then go extinct. Hard to find any other explanation for their choices.

>>32895

during the industrial revolution, a time of technological innovations that were far, far more groundbreaking and disruptive than anything we have experienced during our lifetimes, a bunch of rich industrialists convinced the world that laissez faire economics were the key to the future, get the government off america's back and let big business thrive and trust that these groundbreaking technological changes would usher in a new utopia where machines would do all the work and everyone would share the rewards and live like kings. then factory farming depleted the nation's topsoil and caused the dust bowl, then came the stock market crash and the great depression.

the lesson to be learned from history is, technology doesn't change human nature. technology is just a tool, it doesn't change what humans do, it just allows humans to do what they already do harder and faster, and like any tool it can be used and it can also be misused. it doesn't matter how disruptive or groundbreaking the technology is, the rich and powerful capitalists will always abuse their wealth and power and hoard all of the rewards for themselves and deplete resources and destroy the economy if left to their own devices.