Collaborate Disseminate
Reddit’s stock plunged 29.22% on Friday, reports CNBC, its worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024.
Thursday Reddit reported a sales growth that was weaker than previous quarters, and also forecast weak sales for the quarter to come (below… Continue reading Google’s AI Overviews Lowered Reddit’s Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29%
Meta’s smart glasses face new questions from two U.S. Senators, reports Gizmodo.
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey “are requesting that Meta provide more information before Thanksgiving on whether it conducted detailed human r… Continue reading Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’
Kotaku reports:
r/opensource, Reddit’s primary “subreddit for everything open source related,” has banned all AI-assisted and AI-related projects…. As reported by The Verge, the subreddit’s October 24 post, titled “Your tokens aren’t valuable: No m… Continue reading Reddit’s Largest Open Source Community Dumbfounded By AI Ban: ‘I Guess Linux Is No Longer Allowed?’
Brazil’s 80-year-old president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected Sunday, reports the Guardian, “defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power.”
And the results could impact the clima… Continue reading Amazon Deforestation Fell To Lowest Level Since 1988 – And Silva Wins Reelection
The problem? Understanding how AI coding agents interact with the software you build. “Whether you’re maintaining an SDK, building a command-line interface, or publishing an MCP server or skills… you need to understand whether agents can discover and… Continue reading Microsoft Announces Open Source Tool Evaluating Your Software’s Optimization For AI Coding Agents
“59% of maintainers report growing contribution volume since the rise of GenAI,” according to a new study published by Linux Foundation Research. But 25% of their incoming pull requests “are estimated to be low-quality, also known as ‘AI slop’.” And on… Continue reading 25% of Incoming Pull Requests May Be AI Slop, Finds Study From Linux Foundation Research
“As of today in systemd Git it’s now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C,” reports Phoronix:
Core systemd code like the systemd library doesn’t yet support Rust code, but for the var… Continue reading Systemd Merges Support for Rust Programs
From the student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley:
Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students’ homework. After seeing how many of his students used AI to consistently receive top s… Continue reading AI Use Convinces California Math Professor There’s ‘No Point’ Grading Homework
BeamFS creator Aurelien Desbrieres is not calling for a merge, but is requesting feedback on an 18-patch proposal that takes the place of FTRFS, an earlier filesystem he proposed in April.
The Linux/Open Source blog It’s FOSS reports:
Filesystems t… Continue reading A Newly Proposed Linux Filesystem Can Fix Corrupted Data
“Despite massive investments and widespread hype around AI , the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech,” writes the chief economist at U.S. asset management firm Apollo Global.
He adds that “there are sti… Continue reading AI Delivers ‘Zero Financial Payoff’ To Most Companies, Economist Says