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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 9h

OpenAI Codex rivals Claude Code www.infoworld.com/ar... | Codex gives software developers a first-rate coding agent in their terminal and their IDE, along with the ability to delegate background tasks to agents in the cloud

OpenAI Codex rivals Claude Code

Codex gives software developers a first-rate coding agent in their terminal and their IDE, along with the ability to delegate background tasks to agents in the cloud.

www.infoworld.com

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 10h

The AI dilemma: To compete with China, the U.S. needs Chinese talent

Immigration restrictions can accelerate the flight of top talent, threatening the strategy that it is better to have the brightest minds working for U.S. companies.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 11h

Datacenter water use? California governor says don't ask, don't tell

Cali governor derails bill to monitor datacenter water use

: Bid for transparency on consumption evaporates with Newsom veto

www.theregister.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 12h

Is it time for companies to embrace Arm-based PCs?

For companies looking to move past Intel-inside Windows PCs, Arm-based computers might be a good option. Here's what to consider when deciding which direction to go.

www.computerworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 13h

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 14h

UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs

Trade unions and online safety experts sign letter warning jobs losses could expose children to harmful content

www.theguardian.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 15h

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots techcrunch.com/2025/... via @techcrunch

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch

SB 243 is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from harms associated with use of AI companion chatbots.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 16h

Slack is transforming its Slackbot into a 'personalized AI companion'

Slack is turning its Slackbot into a full-fledged AI assistant. The redesigned bot will be able to do stuff like analyze data and create project plans.

www.engadget.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 17h

Need a Google Workspace alternative? Try Sync-in thenewstack.io/need-... via @thenewstack

Need a Google Workspace Alternative? Try Sync-in

This tutorial will help you deploy your own in-house sync server with the help of Docker.

thenewstack.io

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18h

OpenAI and Broadcom are working together to develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and computing systems over the next four years www.wsj.com/tech/ai/... via @WSJ

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

Unpacking the Microsoft agent framework www.infoworld.com/ar... | Bringing together two very different ways of building AI applications is a challenging task. Has Microsoft bitten off more than it can chew?

Unpacking the Microsoft Agent Framework

Bringing together two very different ways of building AI applications is a challenging task. Has Microsoft bitten off more than it can chew?

www.infoworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks

The empty boulevards that once symbolized the mainland’s property bust now serve as testing grounds for hundreds of autonomous vehicles.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic www.theregister.com/... via @theregister

Data quantity doesn't matter when poisoning an LLM

: Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset

www.theregister.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

Google's third folding Pixel is a lean, mean productivity supermachine — but only one specific question can tell you if it's the right phone for you

One question to ask yourself about Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold

Google's third folding Pixel is a lean, mean productivity supermachine — but only one specific question can tell you if it's the right phone for you.

www.computerworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

Rubik’s Cube gets a $299 update, complete with IPS screens and its own apps

The Rubik’s WOWCube is a 2×2 cube with modern twists.

arstechnica.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software under investigation for traffic safety violations techcrunch.com/2025/... via @techcrunch

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation for traffic safety violations | TechCrunch

The U.S.' top auto safety agency said it had identified more than 50 reports of FSD running red lights, crossing yellow lines, or making illegal turns.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

Ferrari's first EV is coming next year with big speed, big sound and a Jony Ive design

Ferrari unveiled the first proper details about its first EV, the Elettrica, which is set to fully debut next year.

www.engadget.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

Tasklet is IFTTT for the agentic age thenewstack.io/taskl... via @thenewstack

Tasklet Is IFTTT for the Agentic Age

Tasklet.ai is launching out of beta today. Instead of using code or a graphical drag-and-drop interface, you create your agent by chatting with it.

thenewstack.io

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a “second chance” by letting them apply to create a new channel

YouTube will give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback

YouTube is rolling out a feature for previously terminated channels to apply to create a new channel after scrutiny from Republicans and President Donald Trump.

www.cnbc.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 5d

How GitHub won software development www.infoworld.com/ar... via @InfoWorld | Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest

How GitHub won software development

Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest.

www.infoworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 5d

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes restofworld.org/2025... | AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 5d

Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT www.theregister.com/... | Microsoft Copilot, not so much

Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT

: Microsoft Copilot, not so much

www.theregister.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 5d

Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems venturebeat.com/ai/s... via @VentureBeat

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 5d

Insurers balk at paying out huge settlements for claims against AI firms arstechnica.com/ai/2... | OpenAI, Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential lawsuits

Insurers balk at paying out huge settlements for claims against AI firms

OpenAI, Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential lawsuits.

arstechnica.com