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TNW: “Microsoft’s professional network becomes the latest name on a list that now includes Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and IBM, even as the same companies are guiding $725 billion of AI capital spending this year. LinkedIn is cutting roughly 5% of its staff, the latest reduction at a Microsoft-owned business and the most recent entry in …
Ed Zitron: “…AI Revenues Are Pathetic and Circular, With OpenAI Representing 71%+ Of Microsoft’s AI Run Rate and Anthropic 80% of Amazon’s. While Meta and Google refuse to actually explain their AI returns, Microsoft revealed that it had $37 billion in AI revenue run rate — $3.08 billion a month or so — and Amazon …
The EU treats big tech platforms like public infrastructure. If your platform is big enough that people and businesses have no real alternative, you play by public rules. And that’s a great way of seeing it. LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network. Over 1.2 billion people and hundreds of millions of businesses depend on …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 14, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …
The Register: “GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability. Scarcely a day goes by without an outage at a cloud service. Forget five nines – the way things are going, one nine is looking like an ambitious goal. GitHub has had a rough month so far. On February 9, Actions, pull requests, …
ProPublica: “ProPublica…published never-before-released data connecting generic drugs to the factories that manufactured them. The data powers Rx Inspector, our groundbreaking tool that allows you to find the factories where your generic drugs were made and their Food and Drug Administration inspection track records. The data, which ProPublica created by linking several FDA datasets, has never …
Cybernews: “A new wave of online lists is mapping out European alternatives to everyday apps and platforms, encouraging users to switch from US tech platforms and instead support local innovation, reclaiming control of their digital lives. Curated “tech swap” lists are trending across Europe. Multiple directories, forum posts, and social media threads appear regularly to …
The Verge [no paywall]: “Microsoft’s library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among employees. Now those physical books, journals, and reports, and many of Microsoft’s digital subscriptions to leading US newspapers, are disappearing in a shift described inside Microsoft as an “AI-powered …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 28, 2025 – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On …
Shanaka Anslem Perera – The Cognitive Extraction Economy: How Humanity Became the Training Data for Its Own Replacement. “A forensic investigation into the largest uncompensated transfer of intellectual labor in history—and what it reveals about the true architecture of artificial general intelligence. “In October 2025, Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI released a study that …
Good Jobs First: “In the past year, four the biggest tech giants, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, spent an estimated $360 billion on capital expenditures, mostly building data centers across the U.S.; even more investment is projected in the next several years. Most of that will be spent on purchasing building materials and specialized equipment, …
Spyglass: “A funny thing happened on the way to AI web browsers taking over the world: they’re now getting blocked left and right from doing the things that would make them useful. This is, to say the least, a problem. I first noticed it when OpenAI rolled out their ‘ChatGPT Atlas’ browser a couple weeks …
