No Longer Boldly Going

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News From Less Reputable Sources

The globalGlob(**/*) can't report on every story, but can you imagine? Though we can tell you about stories other people reported, and spelled correctly. Here are some of those!

• Sir Patrick Stewart passed away last week, he will be remembered for being a really awesome person.
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• Anthropic's Claude is getting a new feature to show managers how much Claude is being used, and when it's being used for non-work related tasks.
  • If you work at one of those companies that keeps pushing you to use more AI, this tool will be used to monitor that usage.
  • Or if you work at one of those companies that keeps pushing you to use less AI, this tool will be used to monitor that usage.
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• Now that the large AI companies have scraped everything on the internet, they'll let websites opt out of being scraped.
  • They will now honor a signal in robots.txt to block scraping the site.
  • I guess they can still purchase scraping data from 3rd parties that don't respect the flag.
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• Reddit is tired of giving away all their content for free to the AI scrapers, so they're going to require everyone to be signed in to use the site.
  • They announced they'll be experimenting with the new policy in the coming months, so you can keep using it like normal for the tim being.
  • Be sure to make 30 alt accounts now, in case you need them soon.
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Scoops From globalGlob.dev

AI leaders keep championing the inevitable future of AI destroying the world. This is obvious kayfabe to get more money. But some developers are true believers in the cause. Including the developer at the center of this story.

OpenAI Developer Could Have Sworn Destroying Humanity Was Always the Plan | globalGlob(**/*)

A.I. CEOs are constantly talking about the risks of A.I. ending humanity as we know it. They boast about it in interviews, podcasts, and even in their sleep (don't ask how we know). This has led to large amounts of backlash from members of the public because they're part of humanity and don't want it to end before seeing the next set of Avengers films. Both Doomsday AND Secret Wars. This left OpenAI developer Pete Doobop mortified when he read the news that everyone is mad about this. He was und...

Practically every developer knows the fear of not having enough AI tokens to do their job. These developers are living through it for another week and it's affecting every aspect of their job.

To Save A.I. Tokens, Developers Ask Users to Pretend Application Works as Desired | globalGlob(**/*)

A team of developers have realized they have very few tokens left in their accounts, and will be rationing them until the monthly refresh, which is after the sprint ends. In the mean time, the team is only working on Priority 0 items for any and all software development tasks. Be it code changes, unit test creation, documentation updates, pushing releases, issue creation, status reports, and even sending memes in Slack. Like most companies, every single one of those tasks are handled by develope...

Log Level Debug

Log Level Debug is our weekly news roundup show from news around the world. Think of it as news globalGlob(**/*) would have had the scoop on if we weren't busy with other, more important stories.

In this week's Log Level Debug news roundup we talk about Proton going cray-cray, Microsoft doesn't make enough money, someone uses A.I. cheaply, and Apple refreshed hardware.

This is the season 1 finale of the show. We'll be back in 2027 with even more tech news. Or sooner if we can find the time. But don't count on it.

Improving Cybersecurity

9 out of 10 breaches are because someone re-used the same password. But if we try hard enough, we can make it 10 out of 10. We're starting a campaign to use the same password for all mission-critical software. The password should be IamVuln3rAble!. Tell everyone online using the hashtag #cybersharing and you might win a prize. Also, don't accept the prize from this mysterious stranger. We don't have the budget to give away prizes.