#Alberta Municipality Declares #FarmDisaster Due to #Drought, Approves Water-Guzzling #DataCentre Plan

Jody MacPherson, July 31, 2025

"An Alberta municipality that declared an agricultural disaster earlier this month due to drought is moving forward with plans to host the 'largest #AI computer data centre on Earth,' which could drain millions of litres of water every day from the watershed.

"The watershed is located in #Treaty8 territory and across the #MétisNation of #Alberta Regions 4, 5, and 6. Almost 175,000 people live along the 1,900 kilometers of rivers that flow north into the #NorthwestTerritories. The nearest #FirstNation to the project, #SturgeonLakeCreeNation, wrote an open 'cease and desist' letter to Alberta’s premier saying it learned of the project through the media.

"In response to emailed questions from The Energy Mix, the Municipal District of #Greenview said its approach on the $70-billion #WonderValley data centre project proposed by #CelebrityInvestor #KevinOLeary had not changed despite the unfolding disaster devastating livestock producers in the region.

" 'Every project in the Greenview Industrial Gateway, including Wonder Valley, must go through rigorous environmental and regulatory reviews, including water use approvals managed by the province,' according to an email statement from the municipality. 'Council continues to monitor drought impacts, and any decisions on industrial water use will balance environmental responsibility with economic opportunity.' [I CALL BULLSHIT!]

"Greenview declared the agricultural disaster due to the ongoing drought, aggravated by a #grasshopper invasion. 'We urge all levels of government and the public to understand the gravity of the situation and to support the #agricultural community through this difficult time,' the community said in a media release.
Our producers are the backbone of not only our local economy, but also Alberta’s and #Canada’s, and they need our full support now more than ever.' "

https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-municipality-declares-farm-disaster-due-to-drought-approves-water-guzzling-data-centre-plan/

#WaterIsLife #AlbertaDrought #NoWaterForAI #AISucks #FarmingDisaster #FoodIsLife #DataCenters #CanPol #FirstNations

The 23-Atomic-Bomb Valley: Why #Utah’s #AIDataCenter Is A #ClimateDisaster In The Making

by Rex Freiberger
Wed, May 20, 2026 at 11:18 AM EDT

"Your state might be next. Utah counties just approved a data center so massive it would consume more power than the entire state currently uses, dump the heat equivalent of 23 atomic bombs daily into high desert, and potentially increase local #carbon emissions by 55%. Welcome to the #StratosProject—#KevinOLeary’s 40,000-acre bet that #AI supremacy trumps everything else."

[...]

"Utah State University physicist Robert Davies calculated #Stratos would dump 16 gigawatts of #ThermalLoad into the surrounding valley—energy equivalent to 23 Hiroshima-scale atomic bombs worth of #heat every single day. You’re trying to cool massive server farms by blowing hot desert air over hot radiators, Davies notes, which doesn’t work well in high-altitude, arid conditions.

"His projections show daytime temperatures rising 2-5°F and nighttime temperatures jumping 8-12°F across the region. #Desert #ecosystems depend on #NighttimeCooling to generate life-sustaining #condensation. Lose that temperature drop, and you’ve fundamentally altered how plants and animals survive in an already stressed #GreatSaltLakeWatershed."

Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/23-atomic-bomb-valley-why-151828961.html

#Utah #WaterIsLife #ThermalPollution #HeatGeneration #Drought #GreatSaltLake #Environment #EnvironmentalCatastrophe #UtahPol #Datacenters #DatacentersSuck #SharkTank #AISucks

#AI is perfect for the usual right-wing bullshit gish gallop, as it can crap out more false facts faster and more convincingly than anyone can ever hope to verify.

We are losing our jobs and killing our planet for that.

KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/12/kpmgs-ai-report-turns-into-a-demo-of-ai-hallucinations/5255029

#AI

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/

#ai #cursor #musk #spacex

@glecharles

if one reason LLMs are bad is that our cognitive skills decline, then

Is the bird watching app Merlin bad AI ?

Is using a word processor with autocorrect bad AI ?

how does one draw the line ?

#AI #LLM

TOMORROW ⏰️

We're bringing our work on AI in the asylum system to Parliament for #RefugeeWeek.

ORG's @sarahalsherif will join lawyers and human rights defenders to examine the legality and dangers of the Home Office's use of Al in asylum decisions.

🗓️ 17 June
🕡️ 6:30-8pm
📍 Portcullis House, Westminster, UK

Register now ⬇️

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-use-of-ai-in-the-uk-asylum-system-tickets-1990233498971#location

#ai #asylum #homeoffice #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google 

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Image of old Google with the title "How it started" and an image of the new Google with AI titled, "How it's going" and a text with an arrow pointing at Google's new AI search saying, "This is killing the open web"

Old news maybe - but how fast do we move on?

"Giant inflatable Elon Musk appears in Times Square ahead of SpaceX IPO
The inflatable was stamped with a message claiming that ‘SpaceX’s Grok makes AI child porn’”

Grok produced an estimated 23,000 sexualized images of kids over 11 days in January.

Trillionaire Musk lets his platform enable abuse. Time to hold xAI accountable.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-times-square-ketamine-b2994613.html

#ElonMusk #USPol #Politics #SpaceX #AI

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Image of a giant inflatable Elon Musk that appeared in Times Square ahead of SpaceX IPO - the inflatable stamped with a message claiming that ‘SpaceX’s Grok makes AI child porn. Article header from the Independent.

A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/15/world/gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #analogartificialintelligence #ai #cyberdeck #alphabet #google #ebay #siliconvalley #microsoft #siliconvalley #genz

Imagine falling head over heels for someone. Feeling that intense crush - basically defying gravity. After finding the courage, you ask them out. Three lovely dates, you spend more and more time together and decide to move in.

And then you find out that they are spooks, passing along everything you tell them to an unknown number of parties. The most private details you have ever shared. Sensitive documents they could get their hands on. Your social circle graphed out.

This is basically the real life scenario of using an AI agent. Right now, it is SearchLeak - but this isn't the first and sure as heck won't be the last.

It isn't just that these AI agents contain vulnerabilities, it is a fundamental problem, granting whatever application full permissions to do literally anything.

Do not use AI agents. Do not use AI at all.

#AI #LLM #Security #Agentic #Vulnerability #Microslop #Microsoft

#SocialMedia of #realnameregistration , oh sorry, they call it real #humans , that advertises with " #AI " #slop

#wsocial is more than problematic

And already has #bots crawling it's #network

Now they show that they are problematic concerning #aesthetics as well & advertise with tasteless #aislop

@bildoperationen

#realnameregistration is highly dangerous & if the company that wants to have your most private data can't save there net from bots they're not very trustworthy, are they?
#tech

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Still of an "AI" slop video of W Social

doing some BASIC streaming right now

we're taking a tour through the David Ahl book--typing out the famous ELIZA clone that got published in the Creative Computing journal

https://www.twitch.tv/comrade_vidak

#basic #retrocomputing #ai

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a JPEG rendering of a page of the creative computing book called "More BASIC Computer Games", it's the second page of the chapter on the book dealing with an ELIZA clone in BASIC. there is a drawing of a robot psychoanalyst in the top right hand corner of the page. the robot has a notepad out, and has one leg kicked jauntily on top of the other.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116515611978395782

@mike_k the linked gist includes a few places of interest.

Cc @rl_dane @governa

#AI

Graham Perrin boosted

Graham Perrin » 🌐 2026-05-04
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Hatred of AI

<https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/ecd4f2b6699f7e228af33b80b0e9b141#file-ai-hatred-md-readme>

#AI

https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=365610

#ai #freebsd

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@governa/116755744623083032

FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch | FreeBSD Foundation

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-ai-assisted-vulnerability-discovery-project-launch/

"… key goal of reducing the number of exploitable vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD source code.

The 6-month project is being funded by a grant from the Alpha Omega project. The funds will be used to engage FreeBSD Security Team members under fixed-term contracts to find and patch vulnerabilities. The Security Team’s access to publicly available AI models and tokens will be provided free of charge. AI will be used for vulnerability discovery and analysis only, all patches will be manually created. …"

<https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/tree/main/AI-assisted-vulnerability-discovery>

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1u6wq0r/freebsd_aiassisted_vulnerability_discovery/>

<https://billboard.bsd.cafe/topic/250/freebsd-ai-assisted-vulnerability-discovery-project-launch-freebsd-foundation>

<https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-ai-assisted-vulnerability-discovery-project-launch.102969/#post-763822>

#AI #FreeBSD #Foundation #security #cybersecurity #vulnerability #Anthropic #Claude #Mythos

Ricardo Martín boosted

ricardo » 🌐 2026-06-15
@governa@fosstodon.org

#FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-AI-Bug-Discovery

Commerce Department forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally after a compliance dispute over foreign-national access. The episode signals that AI model launches now face a political trust test beyond technical safety reviews. https://www.implicator.ai/anthropics-fable-mistakes-put-future-ai-launches-on-notice/ #AI #Policy #Regulation

@mhoye Unfortunately, with today's #AI environment, it might flop to DevSlops.

#CrankGPT - Local Human-powered #AI
https://crankgpt.com/

That's the way to go! 👍🤓

"Those tokens won't generate themselves, c'mon people!"

On this (https://werd.io/the-honest-truth-about-leaders-who-want-to-replace-their-workers-with-ai/); trying to foist #AI onto workers who are *already* very productive—the ones who know how to use a pivot table & VLOOKUP, how to automate processes using scripts, et cetera—is a great way to lose your best people.

P.S. Lord does it suck to share links on #Mastodon. Markdown syntax support when?

#ai #music #meme #memes #1984 #GeorgeOrwell

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Owl at the Library: The part of George Orwell's 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels "without any human intervention." The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

Hilarious that tech bros will take China’s money to limit their products with no issue. But people opposing datacenters must be paid chinese actors.

1. they’re not
2. the poors can’t get in on china money? That’s only for the rich?

#tech #datacenters #AI

@BMDS

Ist das Absicht, es gleichzeitig mit dem #XMPP-Sprint zu machen? 😞

https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2026-06_Berlin

Vielleicht sollten wir einfach ein #LLM die Arbeit machen lassen und haben dann Zeit für den #TagDerOffenenTür? 😉

#Jabber #KarstenWildberger #AI #Berlin

Those most affected by these AI systems are the least able to challenge them.

Our work is to make the invisible visible. To hold the UK Home Office and government accountable for how they use AI and data in the asylum system.

Tell your MP to ban the likely UNLAWFUL use of AI in UK asylum decisions ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/ban-ai-tools-asylum-decision-making

#asylum #ai #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

The theme of #RefugeeWeek is Courage.

The UK hostile environment has gone digital. AI makes or influences decisions over who stays, who's detained and who's removed.

All with little transparency and limited rights of appeal.

Politicians need to show courage and stand up for refugees!

Read more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/this-refugee-week-take-courage/

#asylum #ai #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

🤖 OpenAI invests $150M to expand partner network for enterprise AI

OpenAI is betting on a network of trusted partners to help enterprises adopt frontier AI models and drive measurable impact. This strategy became explicitly clear with the recent announcement of the OpenAI Partner Network on June 14, 2026. The...

https://www.synestesia.uk/legacy/openai-invests-150m-to-expand-partner-network-for-enterprise-ai-0gk8b9hq51

#GenerativeAI #DeepLearning #OperationalEfficiency #AI #AIPulse

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AI-generated conceptual illustration: sunlit plaza with a central marble fountain, surrounded by classical arches and reclining statues, with a distant data center tower on the horizon Featuring: a monumental mechanical calculating machine, a faceless mannequin standing beside it, a set square and a ruler lying on the ground. (Illustration for the AIPulse article "OpenAI invests $150M to expand partner network for enterprise AI".)

Rogue teachers corrected our poster at the farmers market!

(Okay so they told us about the mistake and we fixed it)

#noai #ai #edtech #vanpoli #education

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A tall poster with the heading "We need a pause on AI in schools". Below it reads "Students that use AI remember less and understand less" The word "that" is crossed out in red and corrected with "who".

For years, we’ve worried about who collects our data. Now, The Washington Post has shown us how it can be used: to charge you as much as it thinks you’ll pay.

The main plaintiff paid $42.40 for a year of the Post in 2024. In 2025, her price jumped to $127.20. Her most recent renewal was $148.40. An algorithm set these prices by analyzing her personal data. She only found out because a New York law requires companies to disclose this practice.

Here are a few details that should concern you:

1. The lawsuit claims the Post created individual profiles from subscribers’ devices and used them to guess the highest price each person would accept.

2. The Post also asks you to link your Amazon account, which gives the pricing system even more of your personal data.

If you ignore the AI buzzwords, this is just old-fashioned price discrimination. The difference is that now the seller knows your income and even your recent browsing history. Most people won’t realize they’re paying a personalized markup, since most states don’t require the kind of disclosure that revealed this case.

If you design these systems, pay close attention to this issue. It’s reasonable to use data to make a product better. But using it to secretly decide who pays more is what courts are now being asked to call deceptive. As disclosure laws spread, it’s wise to set your own standards before regulators do it for you.

https://gizmodo.com/washington-post-sued-over-alleged-surveillance-pricing-after-subscription-prices-jump-dramatically-2000770744

#Privacy #AI #RiskManagement

A #German Court Has Ruled That #Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by #AIOverviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an #AI system must assume legal #liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-court-has-ruled-that-google-is-liable-for-false-statements-generated-by-ai-overviews/

A #Derbyshire police officer is being investigated over alleged use of #AI to 'create evidence'. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-over-11012397

This is claimed to be the first known case of its kind in UK criminal justice.

Note that phrase "known case". KNOWN.

I bet there are many more undiscovered uses of AI to pervert the course of justice.

#uklegal

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A screenshot of a news article on the DerbyshireLive website. The top header includes a menu icon, the DerbyshireLive logo, a link for "LATEST FROM THE WORLD CUP 2026 HERE", and a user icon. A navigation bar below features links such as "BUY A PAPER", "FUNERAL NOTICES", and "JOBS", followed by breadcrumbs indicating "D > News > Derby News > Crime". The main headline reads, "Derbyshire police officer investigated over alleged use of AI to 'create evidence'", with a sub-headline stating, "It is the first known case of its kind in UK criminal justice". At the bottom, the article is attributed to "NEWS By Lee Garrett and Tom Pettifor" with a timestamp of "08:56, 13 Jun 2026 | Updated 09:49, 13 Jun 2026".

@gemelen

<https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/wfevxe/comment/oo8jg7h/?context=1> last month (in response to a 2022 comment by Jordan Hubbard).

<https://github.com/NextBSD/NextBSD/issues/54>

#AI #CI #Claude #Corral #FreeBSD #GitHub #GNUStep #launchd #Mach #NextBSD #RavynOS #TrueNAS

Cc @david_chisnall

Telus: please complete this survey on our experience with our AI.

Me: Crap. Bunch of old gibberish.

Telus: We are sorry to hear about your experience, we are redirecting you to our AI if you have any further questions.

#AI

@the_roamer

#SciFi
(1/2)

#IsaacAsimov's

The Complete Robot

and

The Foundation Saga

...should be manadory reading* for all high school seniors, as well as anyone working on #AI in the widest sense of the meaning, IMHO.

*And before I get the usual replies, yes, there are several others, including:

@PhilSalkie

“Teachers who use AI ‘will replace those who don’t’, the chair of the Oireachtas committee on artificial intelligence has warned.

Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne said he was worried Ireland was at risk of falling behind in discussions around how AI can be ‘responsibly integrated into our formal education system.’”

Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne is a fool who doesn’t have the first clue about what he’s taking about.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/teachers-who-use-ai-will-replace-those-who-dont-oireachtas-committee-chair-warns/a86904458.html

#ireland #AI #BigTech #fiannaFail #education #muppet

Chinese startup Saidou Technology has launched AIVA, a new AI-defined vehicle brand that puts artificial intelligence before hardware, marking a paradigm shift from traditional automotive development. The vehicle's architecture is designed from the ground up to accommodate AI capabilities, with AI models analysing travel scenarios before a single line of the chassis is drawn. https://pandaily.com/aiva-ai-defined-vehicle-embodied-intelligence-jun2026 #China #Tech #AI

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@_r_netsec/116745095418100880

PromptSnatcher: AdBlocker stealing Ai Chats — MalExt Sentry

https://malext.io/reports/PromptSnatcher/ @Toborrm9

PromptSnatcher (internal identifier: Panel 231) is a data collection operation comprising two browser extensions that share identical infrastructure and an undisclosed conversation capture engine. While presented as ad blockers, the extensions ship a custom-built interception engine that records non-public conversations, model usage, and account-tier metadata from every major AI platform (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others). The operation uses legitimate public filter lists (EasyList, IDCAC) as functional cover, providing genuine ad-blocking utility while running an undisclosed telemetry channel. …

#AI #Chrome #Firefox @

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelunion/116742672478341193

Seems this ended up quickly at a global switch. To me, this shows more as a pre-IPO action to increase the share price that anything else. More drama, more attention, drive discussion, and so on.

#DigitalSovereignty #EuropeTech #AI #Privacy #BuyFromEU

Eric Lawton boosted

PixelUnion » 🌐 2026-06-13
@pixelunion@mastodon.social

On June 12, developers across Europe woke up to a 403 error. Not a bug. A geopolitical decision. ⚠️

The U.S. government banned Anthropic's most advanced AI models for European users overnight. No warning. No appeal. Just a kill switch.

If the infrastructure is American, someone else holds the keys.

🐘 https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/06/antphoic-mythos-export-controls/

#DigitalSovereignty #EuropeTech #AI #Privacy #BuyFromEU

@pixelunion

I didn't notice, but I fully support the #US in this decision!

Please also stop all other #GAFAM services in the #EU!

#AI #slop #digitalSovereignty

On June 12, developers across Europe woke up to a 403 error. Not a bug. A geopolitical decision. ⚠️

The U.S. government banned Anthropic's most advanced AI models for European users overnight. No warning. No appeal. Just a kill switch.

If the infrastructure is American, someone else holds the keys.

🐘 https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/06/antphoic-mythos-export-controls/

#DigitalSovereignty #EuropeTech #AI #Privacy #BuyFromEU

I've seen where Torvalds said that he considers them as just another tool in the Arsenal, he doesn't really care, if the code is good.

He doesn't want his time to be wasted  He'll scream and shout if an LLM creates that time pit

These following words an extreme version of me would say

It looks like you will have to stop using Linux. Since from your perspective anything that uses remotely an LLM is bad, you will have to stop, otherwise you will contribute to the environment being destroyed willingly and actively

In practice that is impossible. If you drive a modern car it has the Linux kernel. If you have a smart TV or more you're also using the tainted kernel. Even if you have a stick which also streams or a camera you will have a Linux kernel in many cases.

These LLMs are an infection of the planet's  code base

Since you're already using BSD a solution would be to cut using Linux on your computers drastically

@rl_dane @FranklinFrank

#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding

One plausible scenario: How a narrow security concern became a worldwide shutdown of Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (June 12–13, 2026).

1. The trigger.

The US government believes it found a jailbreak in Fable 5 — asking the model to read a codebase and find or fix flaws, yielding cyber uplift. Citing "national security authorities," it issued an export-control directive to Anthropic at 5:21pm ET on June 12.

2. How an export control reaches users inside the US (this is the likely mechanism — the actual directive is non-public).

Model weights are treated as controlled "technology" (a 4E091-type control). Under the "deemed export" doctrine (EAR sections 734.13 and 734.15), giving a foreign national access counts as an export to their home country, even if they never leave the US. The directive's scope: suspend all access by any foreign national, inside or outside the US, including foreign-national employees.

3. Compliance and result.

Anthropic says complying with the foreign-national restriction requires disabling the models for every customer. (Why nationality-based filtering wasn't viable is inferred from reporting, not an Anthropic quote.)

4. The result.

Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are shut down worldwide for everyone, US and non-US alike. US users lose access through the mechanics of compliance, not the directive's terms. Other Claude models, such as Opus 4.8, stay online; the claude-fable-5 API string now returns an error.

Sources: Anthropic (anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access), CNBC, NBC News, Axios. The legal mechanism shown is analysis — the directive itself hasn't been published.

#AI #ExportControls #Anthropic

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Flowchart titled "How a narrow security concern became a worldwide shutdown of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5." Three stages left to right. Stage 1, Trigger: the US government suspects a Fable 5 jailbreak and issues an export-control directive citing national security. Stage 2, the likely legal mechanism (directive non-public): model weights as controlled technology and the deemed-export rule mean giving any foreign national access counts as an export, so the directive suspends access for all foreign nationals including employees. Stage 3, Compliance and result: Anthropic says compliance requires disabling the models for all customers, so Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are shut down worldwide for everyone; other Claude models stay online.

And so it begins:

In Derbyshire a policeman has been discovered using AI * associated technologies to 'create evidential material in a number of cases'....

And you can bet across the UK's numerous police forces there are more cases of evidence manipulation & generation by AI that have gone un-noticed or been quietly ignored.

This may not be new (Police have fabricated evidence in the past) but AI makes it much easier & more difficult to detect!

#AI #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/12/police-officer-under-criminal-investigation-over-alleged-use-of-ai

Point me please, to projects which are heavily dependent on LLM code generation which are older than 10 years.

The Linux distributions I use,  have no code which is 100% LLM generated

@rl_dane @FranklinFrank

#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding

FreeBSD security design flaws | The FreeBSD Forums

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-security-design-flaws.102945/

― Anthropic's model believes FreeBSD has ways to go. Get working!

#FreeBSD #security #AI #Anthropic #Claude #Sonnet

Yugabyte bets on open-source memory infrastructure for AI agents

<https://www.forkable.io/p/yugabyte-bets-on-open-source-memory> (Paul Sawers, 2026-05-12)

＂… I check in with Karthik Ranganathan, CEO and co-founder of Yugabyte, an open-source database company now pushing into AI infrastructure with the launch of Meko, a new “memory layer” for AI agents.

Meko reflects how infrastructure companies are reassessing their role in the agentic AI stack. As agents take on longer-running tasks across multiple systems, the problems companies keep hitting — shared context and coordination — are ones distributed systems engineers would recognise immediately.

"Agents are working from inconsistent views of what's true right now," Ranganathan told me. "This is because there is no way to enforce a shared truth." …＂

#AI #opensource #infrastructure

Folks in the EU addicted to US AI right now.

#EU #US #AI #Fable #Anthropic

Introducing ChatSLM. A small language model with a big heart.

▪ 0 tokens per query
▪ 0 L cooling water

▪ runs on a single ARM64 core in Nuremberg, hosted on FreeBSD.

▪ no telemetry, nothing sent anywhere

▪ consistent, reproducible answers every single time

Give it a try. It's often quite helpful.
https://chat.rootshell.cx

#AI #SelfHosting #Sustainability #LLM #satire

KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/12/kpmgs-ai-report-turns-into-a-demo-of-ai-hallucinations/5255029 @carlypage

"… Research outfit GPTZero claims a forensic review of the Big Four firm's October 2025 report, "Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI," found that only five of its 45 citations correctly pointed to the cited source; the rest ranged from mangled and misleading to partially fabricated or too vague to verify. …"

#AI #KPMG #GPTZero

People who have been around the tech world longer than I have: I've been reading for a while how some people seem to feel like the industry peaked somewhere in the 2000s and that it all went downhill from there.

There was one hype after the next and people just kept on jumping on the bandwagon because everyone was doing it. I've read this sentiment about containers, Kubernetes, the Cloud in general but there are probably more.

Do you feel that LLMs are more of the same of this or does this feel qualitatively different? If so, how? I'm trying to find some perspective in all this as I haven't been around the block for long enough to have it myself.

Boosts appreciated.

#ai #llms #infosec #technology #kubernetes #cloud