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I posted about the Claude Code leak on LinkedIn and almost immediately someone attacked me about my criticism. They tried the "take a look at COBOL and get back to me" angle.

Buddy. I've written COBOL. I spent several years working almost daily with a 3-million-line monstrosity of a COBOL program. I was working on another app that interfaced with it, but in that work I occasionally had to read the code and in a few cases modify it. Granted I haven't spent as much time looking at the leaked Claude Code source code (and won't lol), but nevertheless I confidently declare that Claude Code is worse. "Spaghetti code" doesn't come close to describing this thing.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #ClaudeCode #ClaudeCodeLeak #Anthropic #Claude #tech #dev #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #software #COBOL #LinkedIn

Elon Musk's #SpaceX has confidentially filed for a #US #IPO, setting the stage for what could become the largest #StockMarket listing on record.

A public listing at a potential valuation of >$1.75 trillion would signal that #SpaceExploration has moved from a speculative venture to a ‌mainstream #investment. SpaceX's growth has been driven by its reusable rockets & the #Starlink satellite internet network.

#Musk #billionaires #technocracy #tech #business #antitrust #law
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-registers-take-rocket-maker-public-blockbuster-ipo-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-04-01/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Anthropic apologists still coming out of the woodwork to run cover for them or complain, 24 hours after I posted that the Claude Code source code is horribly ill-structured.

You don't have to pretend that Claude Code's source code is lovely just because you like using it or are impressed by whatever madness is going on around AI right now.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Anthropic #Claude #ClaudeCode #ClaudeCodeLeak #AgenticAI #tech #dev #software #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment

“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”

Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

#tech #google #palantir #iran #iranwar #politics

#ElonMusk Set to Take Stand Soon in Blockbuster #OpenAI Trial

A lawyer for #Musk framed the consequential showdown with OpenAI as a moral issue [cuz Musk is so freaking “moral”]. A company lawyer said the case stemmed from Musk not getting his way.

#law #egotistical #billionaires #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #regulation #accountability #oversight
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/28/technology/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-trial?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#ElonMusk has made a particularly bold demand of his #WallStreet advisers ahead of the #IPO of #SpaceX.

#Musk is requiring banks, law firms, auditors & other advisers working on the IPO to buy subscriptions to #Grok, his #AI #chatbot, which is part of SpaceX, acc/to 4 people with knowledge….

Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, & they have already started integrating Grok into their #IT systems….

#tech #business #law #SEC #antitrust
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I have long since ranted about the lack of tech literacy and how that’s intentional, partially by big tech, but also partially because I believe educational places are/were teaching tech backwards.

For instance, in schools, certainly my school, I was Taught how to do things with technology, but I was never taught *how technology worked and why it worked the way it worked.*

Fear comes from not knowing how stuff works and why it works.

I just came across two different people from generations that have been trained to be afraid of links. younger than me, GenZ and older, GenX and so we broke down a link.

The different parts of a URL, how to read a URL, the various components of a URL, how to find a URL inside of tracking garbage, how to tell the difference between HTTPS and HTTP and what each does and means, and why, and I explained what all the different parts of a URL tells the user and why.

I think we went about tech literacy all wrong. People technically know how to use email, but they don’t know the half of what makes up an email address, why the @ sign is an @ sign to begin with, and a whole host of other things as just won example. That’s the kind of tech literacy I truly think we need more of.

Like, instead of everybody telling me when I was younger that Wikipedia was terrible and should never be used, I wish my instructors would’ve taught me how to use the references. How to use the external links. How to track edits. Nothing complicated. I had to learn all that later on.

And guess what, after breaking down every component of a URL, and teaching others how to read a URL, thoroughly, the fear of links dissipated. No coding required! #Education #Technology #Tech

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Today, we’re launching social websites, a new kind of online destination. These blend posts from Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and more, plus YouTube, podcasts and your favorite publications to create community sites based around the things that matter to you.

https://about.surf.social/surf-launches-surf-social-websites/

#SurfSocial #OpenSocial #Technology #Tech #Fediverse

In the US-Iran war, data centers are a target. Iran has struck several Amazon facilities, including another one just this week in Bahrain.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Sam Biddle of The Intercept to dig into why data centers are a target and how the military uses AI.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/322_why_iran_is_attacking_data_centers_w_sam_biddle

#tech #iranwar #datacenters #amazon #iran #ai #artificialintelligence

The earliest discovered DOS source codes have been recovered!

As a continued effort to preserve some of the oldest computing artifacts, such as the UNIX 4th Edition tape discovery that happened as 2025 was coming to the end, Microsoft has continued to give access to the source code of old versions of MS-DOS, such as version v1.25 and v2.11.

Today, on April 28th, Microsoft has made a huge announcement that will excite those interested in retrocomputing in a way that never happened before. Microsoft has finally released the source code of the earliest DOS versions discovered!

You can see the GitHub page of the source code here.

Open the source code

Those newly-available source code materials that provide an early look of how PC-DOS 1.0, the first DOS for IBM PCs, was developed, as a celebration of the 45th year anniversary of the antique operating system. This collection of such materials, such as e-mails and other documents, were done by a team of historians and preservationists, with the leaders being Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini.

The team has located, scanned, and transcribed the stack of DOS-era source listings from the author of DOS, Tim Patterson, which are now available in the MS-DOS source code found on GitHub. Those listing include interesting bits, such as development snapshots of the PC-DOS 1.0 kernel, sources to 86-DOS 1.0 kernel, and utilities like CHKDSK, a program for checking your disk for errors.

https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/2049171077079998908

This is such a huge discovery and preservation that was done, and anyone who’s interested in seeing those artifacts in person will be able to do so by visiting the Interim Computing Museum in the next coming days.

To learn more, visit this announcement post:

Read more#DOS #IBM #microsoft #news #Retrocomputing #Tech #Technology #update

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.

His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

https://disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb-sell-em-smarts/

#tech #chatgpt #samaltman #artificialintelligence #generativeai

This is cool, just discovered that an AM radio can be used as a Flipper Zero speaker, as long as the speaker is playing something even at a low volume. (Surprisingly, lower it is, the more clear the sound becomes.)

Here I’ve used some test videos to showcase this finding. The classic Bad Apple, the Doohickey Corporation video and an edited version of the Albuquerque animation.

Using the FZ as a proper music player is possible!

#Tech #Technology #Radio #AM #AMRadio #Flipper #FlipperZero #Cool

I just had an interaction on LinkedIn in which the person claimed we don't code anymore, we "manipulate data". When I pushed back, they gave a PHP regular expression as an example. Apparently what they meant by "manipulate data" is "modify highly-structured strings according to a syntax", an activity they don't seem to recognize as coding. 🤦‍♂

Do instructors just not teach the code-data duality anymore? Data is code is data is now a mystery?

#ComputerScience #tech #dev #coding #software #SoftwareDevelopment #literalism #LinkedIn

Turns out we’ve been selling our mouses (mice, mousse, mooses?) a bit short. Case in point: the middle mouse button. Most people only use it to scroll. But you can open links instantly in a new tab, close tabs, and so much more. PC World, which wisely only used the singular, offers up the details:

https://flip.it/CTlprg

#Tech #Computers #Devices #Technology

On jailbreaking a forced-obscelescent Kindle ...

"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books on one of the largest-format Kindle devices ever made."

Bonus points for "Darth Bezos" 😁

https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not-obsolete-it-needs-a-jailbreak-ill-show-you-how-its-done/

#Amazon #Kindle #Jailbreak #Tech

I recently reread Fred Brooks's 1986 classic No Silver Bullet, which you can find here: https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf . I think it is useful to re-consider Brooks's distinction between the essential complexity versus the accidental complexity of software development in light of the recent mania behind using LLMs for coding. Which of these types of complexity does LLM use address? Does it introduce more of either class of complexity?

In light of what I've seen, LLM use seems to provide the illusion of addressing both kinds of complexity in the short-term while it increases essential complexity in the long-term. It may or may not reduce some accidental complexity; the verdict is still out, as far as I can tell. Judging from the recent leak of the Claude Code front end source code, LLMs seem to introduce an enormous amount of new accidental complexity.

To the extent that LLMs are in the category of what Brooks calls automatic programming, this quote he shares from David Parnas is important:

Automatic programming always has been a euphemism for programming with a higher-level language than was presently available to the programmer.

The "higher-level language" LLMs trade in is English, which Dijkstra has strongly argued makes for a poor programming language. But even if, contra Dijkstra, it turns out LLMs somehow change that equation, we are still stuck with Brooks's argument that higher-level programming languages largely only address accidental complexity. They do not get at the essence of what makes creating software systems difficult.

Taken together, all this seems to suggest that LLM use in coding is a net negative, and if the above is to be believed it will result in worse outcomes, not better, over the long haul. Definitely re-read Brooks and see if you agree.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLMs #ClaudeCode #software #tech #dev #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment

Your browser could already be part of a botnet thanks to this dangerous Chrome flaw

Your browser may never act suspicious enough to raise concern.

https://www.androidauthority.com/chromium-browser-vulnerability-3669581/

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #AndroidAuthority [Android Authority]

I realized that if I was writing a program and it didn't always work, I had a choice: I could either fix it, or call it AI.

--David Parnas

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLMs #Claude #ClaudeCode #ChatGPT #tech #dev #software #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

Little Bits: Issue #35 For March 2026

A brief reminder of the power each of us hold and how their is a positive side to the Internet through all these shiny new little bits.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-35/

#blog #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #tech #news #LinkDump

What's the competitive edge if software is free? I see two paths.

https://blog.mempko.com/entering-the-architecture-age/

#tech #software #AI #LLMs

I might have made something horrible.

https://blog.mempko.com/an-abject-horror/

I re-thought what and object oriented system could look like in the world of AI and came up with The Ask Portocol.

I then created a system to see how far I can take the idea. I would love to hear people's feedback. Also it's open source so you can contribute.

#tech #OpenSource #AI #CompSci #Software #project #philosophy

I had to move an 84 Gbyte file from one physical disk to another, and found myself feeling impatient about how long it was taking. So, I calculated that 84 Gbyte is roughly the storage space of 58,333 1.44 Mbyte floppy disks, which was the largest storage unit I had available when I was a kid, and my sense of proportion returned. It would have taken considerably longer to copy over 58,000 floppies.

#tech #dev #computers #storage

Have you checked out @jasonkoebler's @404mediaco Media Rebels Surf feed? It's full of tech builders, writers and thinkers, like @Gargron, @timnitGebru, @molly0xfff, @briankrebs and more, filtered for tech talk.

https://404media.surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jy2fmw061y7yjw0rtg4a0sg8

#SurfFeeds #SurfSocial #Technology #Tech

The courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman heated up Monday when Musk’s AI expert Stuart Russell, a Cal-Berkeley computer science professor, took the stand. Russell co-signed an open letter in 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research. Here's more from @Techcrunch, including what Russell told jurors and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers about the risks associated with AI:

https://flip.it/28x0Q5

#Tech #AI #ElonMusk #SamAltman #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Misinformation has become pervasive in Taiwan's information environment. A survey by NTU found that there was a high level of awareness of misinformation and its impacts on society

Over 90% of respondents supported government legislation to regulate misinformation. 76% believed that technology companies should take a more active role in limiting its spread

https://en.tfc-taiwan.org.tw/taiwans-2025-misinformation-survey-from-political-narratives-to-scam-driven-content/

#Taiwan #FactCheck #disinformation #SocialMedia #tech #台灣 #事實查核