Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social), page 2

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU — registers, memory, flags, and program counter are all tensors.
Every ALU operation is a trained neural network.
https://github.com/robertcprice/nCPU

Apple is now killing low end Windows machines with Macbook Neo that starts @ $599

* CPU: Apple A18 Pro chip
* CPU/GPU Cores: 6‑core CPU with 2 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores for CPU and 5‑core GPU.
* RAM: 8GB unified memory
* SSD: 256GB (512GB option, $100 extra for this option)
* Size/Display: 13" with 2408-by-1506 native resolution at 219 pixels per inch
* Weight: 1.23 kg
* Up to 16 hours battery life etc.

https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/

TIL, there is a term for huge human job loss created by technology like AI or other such stuff.

In economics, deskilling is the process by which skilled labor within an industry or economy is eliminated by the introduction of technologies operated by semi- or unskilled workers. This results in cost savings due to lower investment in human capital, and reduces barriers to entry, weakening the bargaining power of the human capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskilling

the term is older but I learned today

Imagine being the trillion dollar company that built the world's most used desktop OS, office app and still getting your feelings hurt by the word "Microslop" 🤣 clippy didn't die for this level of insecurity. This is what Reddit or SO mods do, they banned people if they don't agree with your views. Lmao.

Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies. Microsoft CEO and AI chief wants you to stop using words like SLOP and Microslop because it upsets them a lot. Lmao. https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-banned-the-word-microslop-in-its-copilot-discord-server-then-began-restricting-access-after-users-started-posting-microsl0p-and-other-funnies/ Maybe you shouldn't force Copilot AI on everyone and steal their data to train your shitty AI and then every day tell the world how they are scared as AI is going to replace 80% of jobs?

In another news: Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quote. Benj Edwards is no longer working at Ars Technica following an AI controversy that angered readers.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c178zzw780xo

This is happening all over the world especially in legal & tax departments where people who are supposed to uphold laws are using AI and creating a mess. There are no laws in place to ban AI in medical, law, or many such sensitive matters/industries where one could go homeless or worse die due to made up laws or treatments for people by LLM/AI. But, at least tech bros are making dollars? right? 🤡

One of Amazon's data centers in the UAE caught fire after being hit by 'objects' (mostly drone or missile) amid the Middle East conflict. UAE based data center like AWS and others are heavily used by import/export companies, banking & finance, shipping, IT, Energy (oil & gas), and regional governments. The old economy’s high regional demand drives these data centers. Since war destroys both lives and assets, a peaceful solution is the need of the hour for safety of humans and their assets.

/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled”, mobile ecosystem

https://e.foundation/e-os/

Would you use it? My best guess is that most people will use it if /e/OS provides some sort of jailed/isolated compatibility to run banking apps which typically don't work without google play service.

data destroyed by 1 yo? A new threat model unlocked 😅

https://xcancle.com/1v100000/status/2028319935626371137

Claude Code blog post: We are modernising COBOL.

The fear among investors : AI will replace humans, billing hours will drop to zero & IT companies like IBM will go to >/dev/null

The reality: High stakes systems that runs banks, airlines, govts cannot just let a "black-box AI" rewrite their core code without massive oversight, testing, and human accountability. Otherwise, everyone will lose their money/pension/ investments.

What a mess. It is like there is no common sense left in this world 😂

AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380 😂😂😂

So far AI has done more damage than adding any true value to productivty unless you consider the following as plus points:

* Getting staff fired
* Stealing journalist, book authors, or artists’ work
* Environment impact
* Hallucinations that caused harm and loss of life
* Creating undressing images of minors and woman
* The list list endless and you have to be psychopaths to like this

you know Anthropic security tool/plugin is garbage if it can't stop distillation attacks 😂There’s so much nonsense going on with LLMs right now. people actually think anyone can just build a banking system or a food delivery app or security system by typing prompts.

i think it is just IPO/getting more VC money hype.

if you think this crash in IT, IBM, security or other stocks is bad due to Anthropic plugins, wait until you see Anthropic or OpenAI crash hard. Hah. That is going to be epic.

Some good news from medial science.

Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-blood-boosts-alzheimer-diagnosis-accuracy.html

Linuxulator, is a mechanism to run unmodified Linux binaries under FreeBSD. It does not involve virtual machines or emulation; instead, it provides the binaries with kernel interfaces identical to those provided by a real Linux kernel[1]

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic https://hayzam.com/blog/02-linuxulator-is-awesome/

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linuxulator (project wiki page)

the irony

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116092191816673310

yeah right. it was a bug. lmao.

Lmao.

Sumercomputer maker and AI pusher IBM is now tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/tech-giant-ibm-tripling-gen-z-entry-level-hiring-according-to-chro-rewriting-jobs-ai-era/

Cutting entry-level talent could backfire in the long term, according to IBM’s HR head.

#ai

the birth of the internet?