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Why is the employee turnover rate high at openAI? (Blind)

• SBhA15 (OpenAI): Very high demand, burn out (no wlb), culture of management not caring much about subordinates, as many of them are super busy already.
• codebredy (Pinterest): must get annoying to work under some wannabe philosophers everyday who think they have solved the question of life and are saving humanity
• agiforall (OpenAI): everyone is very busy and autonomy is very important. The company will take whatever you give them.

What differentiates those who survive in tech and those who don’t? (Blind)

• fastenough (Meta): Being good at politics
• SCyI14 (ByteDance): To some extent just good communication skills/soft skills. Or aura as others said lol
• nNdL81 (Databricks): Nothing is guaranteed. Grind mindset, some degree of smartness will make you more likely to succeed but there are outliers on either end.

Apple really said we’ll catch up eventually (Blind)

• heGetsUs (KLA-Tencor): I stopped buying Samsung a long time ago e ago. When the Samsung “smart” tv needed a Roku brain transplant, the Samsung phone glitched, and even the Samsung washer and dryer broke and leaked water all over the place. I won’t buy a flip phone but if I did, it would be Apple.
• SaigeMare (NVIDIA): I don’t think you understand the issue. For Apple, it’s never about being first. It’s about doing it the best. The UX is always the top priority for Apple, and this is probably why they’ll do well with the Duo as well.
• rwudfs (ByteDance): Samsung is the backbone of great products, but can’t make great products on their own 🙃

Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% (r/technology)

• Spiritual-Nail-2641: Well, they are already terribly underpaid. So they might as well save some energy with AI slop.
• spacetree7: AI tools are like the cotton gin of game development.
• Just-Grocery-2229: 85% adoption rate and Capcom still won’t use AI . Respect.

The internet is inbreeding. (r/artificial)

• BaronsofDundee: I have seen this phenomenon, most of the sources have words like AI & grok in the domain name itself.
• hi-sci-collab: Also people are optimising pages in a different way now, instead of search ranking, they’re optimising for most visibility in the AI search results/regurgitation. Instead of ranking no1, it’s meaningless now, as people get shown the AI summary first, the aim is to be included in the AI summary. This is being gamified and drives decent content un-optimised for AI to be pushed away .
• adrnptcl: “our ai slop is trained on the best ai slop sources on the internet”

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Large software rewrites usually fail for organizational reasons before they fail for technical ones. They demand years of feature-freeze patience, create a branch that drifts from production, and defer the hardest question—whether behavior was preserved—until an enormous cutover. GitHub’s rewrite of the Copilot agent runtime is notable because it changed those economics without pretending that code generation made correctness automatic.

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Techmeme surfaced Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen’s September 18 CNN investigation, “Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say.” It describes a failure more immediate than the usual argument about an autonomous superintelligence: a human analyst used a chatbot inside an ordinary intelligence workflow, the resulting claim acquired the authority of a standard military report, and real forces began moving before somebody checked whether the central fact was true.

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Man who sprayed Minnesota Rep. Omar with vinegar sentenced to 14 months in prison (r/news)

• freebirth: should be longer. that shits literally terrorism.
• joestaff: Vinegar? I feel like the image I have in my head is vastly underestimating what actually happened
• Numerous-Ordinary-19: He should have gotten a longer sentence!

Ireland’s national broadcaster will boycott 2027 Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s participation (r/news)

• gotwaffles: Why is Israel even in “euro” vision? They’re not European lol
• ledow: The one good thing to come out of 2026 might well be a growing boycott of Israel now that we don’t give a damn about what the US thinks any more.
• sephjnr: Was it confirmed the Israel public vote this year was rigged/astroturfed?

Have you fallen in love with a person you found unattractive or unlikable at first? If so, what happened to change your opinion of them? (r/AskReddit)

• thandi81: Yes, i got to know them and in time love them, got married have children find him attractive every day
• GustavesGhost: Yeah. I didn’t find her attractive at first, but always liked her personality. It was just a lot of little things stacking up. Seeing her face in a certain light, hearing her laugh at something I said, watching her talk about something she was passionate about, finding yourself thinking about them when you aren’t together. Eventually you have enough of these little moments of attraction, that you realize you want them. It’s rarely if ever just one moment that completely changes your mind about a person.
• perrytheply: Chick at the school I went to, everyone kind of had this public image of her so it like mentally put an “ugly” or “unattractive” spot in my mind. Someone came up to me randomly and told me that she liked me and I looked up for a second and actually saw her and it completely changed my perspective to the hottest chick in the world lol

People who sit in someone else’s assigned seat in a plane and wait for them to show up, why do you do it? (r/AskReddit)

• KoalaOnABuilding: because i’m an idiot and read the seats wrong
• ArielSwan8462: Main character syndrome. They hope the assigned person will just be too awkward or polite to say anything and surrender the seat.
• Captain_Comic: If I’m in your seat, it 100% because I misread the row and I will move immediately

TIL In the middle third of the 19th century, the clippers which carried cargoes of tea from China to Britain would compete in informal races to be first ship to dock in London with the new crop of each season. (r/todayilearned)

• onehotoneshot: Came down to 28min after 14k miles, insane lol
• AggroJordan: Well makes sense, whoever got there first got the highest prices, I would think.
• Cliffinati: The cannon ball run of the era

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How are people winning in 2026 to get 650k offers (Blind)

• b@ngalore (LinkedIn): Being honest… i dont think you’ll ever make it sorry. Theres software engineering… and there is software engineering
• Meta-101 (Meta): You have to be perfect in everything to land those. Perfect resume, perfect interview
• Nv5ojtDR (PayPal): No one has said it. It is luck

Amazon compensation after yr 4 doesnt make sense (Blind)

• MrCurryMan (Google): You are not supposed to work at Amazon for 4+ years.
• whereami1 (Google): They are asking you to leave politely. That’s why you see so many boomerangs at Amzn to reset their $
• owjeb&3!2! (Salesforce): The answer is and forever will be: find another job

Laid off because of AI – what’s your plan now? (Blind)

• mTSr07 (Google): The plan is Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
• q_t (Capital One): leaving tech is the best option, but people are always too complacent and comfortable to leave.
• oxXn63 (ByteDance): Retire early 👌

We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir (r/technology)

• UCBearcats: They’ll probably start charging people individual prices based on datasets and buying habits.
• LEO-PomPui-Katoey: Good they are monitoring for explosive diarrhea after eating there
• Ambil: Bummer, Chipotle was my favorite pit stop on road trips.

Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company’s denials– group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device (r/technology)

• bakfietsman69: the US really is fucked isn’t it?
• berntout: Breaking news: IoT devices are not secure. More at 10.
• engineergsquirrel: Flock lied. Shocking.

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Solar power’s rise is often told as a climate story. Stephanie Pappas’s feature makes a broader argument: solar has become a force in the world economy because it is now extraordinarily cheap, fast to deploy and difficult to embargo once installed. The technology still depends on concentrated manufacturing and supportive policy, but its fuel arrives everywhere for free.

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Techmeme surfaced Hacktron AI’s September 13 primary report, “Hacking OpenAI.” It is an unusually clear account of how several individually understandable weaknesses—a stale image library, a permissive sign-in boundary, and a powerful connected agent—combined into access to OpenAI’s private code repository. The researchers reported the chain through bug-bounty channels, proved its reach without reading internal code, and stopped testing.

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This summary covers The Economist’s August 22nd, 2026 Business article listed as Canada's oil boom and published under the headline Will the latest boom endure?.

Canada’s oil industry is enjoying a sudden revival. Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has lifted crude prices, a weaker Canadian dollar has improved local producers’ margins, and the federal government has become more receptive to pipelines. The immediate gains are striking: Cenovus Energy’s operating profit nearly tripled from a year earlier, while Canadian Natural Resources reported its best-ever quarterly adjusted operating profit.

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Macklemore pledges his \$1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine (r/news)

• SillyGoatGruff: \$1m for two shows is a pretty sweet deal
• iamacannibal: He is making the best of this situation. He has gained a ton of fans and is using this to help people. Seems like an overall good dude too.
• ithinkitslupis: He is making the macklemost of the situation.

Women sue Epstein’s estate, saying their photos were found in his vast child porn collection (r/news)

• supervillaindsgnr: The fact that Epstein still has an estate should have a literal mob hunting down every last ill-gotten dollar of his an returning it to the victims of his traficking ring.
• ChopperChange: Who are the people managing Epstein’s estate?
• SteveJobsBlakSweater: Jesus, that’s so fucked up. The only thing worse than a child porn collection is finding out that you’re in it.

Robert Kraft says Ed Sheeran asked him to donate \$2m to aid “in the region” after Macklemore backlash (r/news)

• Otarmichael: Where in the region, Ed? Where in the region??
• cb148: Both sides
• BTTammer: To Trump’s Board of Peace, of course

Family of Texas pregnant woman who died sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleges denied abortion led to death (r/news)

• lazergator: I cannot fathom how any woman still votes for these monsters.
• Healthy-Caregiver997: Funny to watch Mike Johnson talking about how old men don’t understand enough about AI to be trying to regulate it but does not understand the same concept about women’s health!
• tooshpright: I wish them all the luck in the world.

House holds billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress over Epstein investigation (r/news)

• Wandering_butnotlost: I wonder if the fine was a billion dollars a day, if that would help with his attitude?
• Spiritual-Bed3948: He’s a billionaire, so that means absolutely nothing will happen to him. Accountability for the common folks none for them.
• waaaayupyourbutthole: We all know absolutely nothing will come of it.

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Is the Anthropic Doomsday scenario really legit? (Blind)

• ThePMDude (GoFundMe): No one knows and we won’t know unless and until it actually happens. Keep an eye out for a huge AI driven cyber attack.
• roswotjxh (Instacart): No, they are just covering their a*s as the money runs out
• tetrarch (Uber): AI won’t do shit. People will eventually use AI to make a super virus, exotic prion or some other doomsday vector. Can’t walk the tightrope forever.

Are OAI and A\ actually slowing down? (Blind)

• vibeco (Microsoft): lol .. it’s not about working slower, but the emphasis will be on safety and security and lesser on iterating on newer models that don’t have enough safe guards. If they mean what they say, I expect a heavy focus on very serious evaluations in real world deployments, and by safety and security experts etc before iterating on newer and newer models
• h1b&h4.ead: They can slow down, but Chinese AI will over take
• EditConfig (Google): They want regulation against distillation aka scraping their API to use for training. These companies have no moat, normies hate them for the layoffs, and are severely threatened by any gimmick model that comes out with a nice user experience.

JUST GOT ANTHROPIC OFFER. I’M FUCKING FREE (Blind)

• obMg52 (Amazon): Congrats and fuck your soon to be ex-manager
• pwdsales (Salesforce): Imagine you get there and your manager got an offer at Anthropic too 💀
• tamahawk48 (Snorkel AI): Congrats! It’s so amazing to leave toxic managers and get a bit of a fresh start elsewhere! Happy for u OP

Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent \$118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card - bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one \$20 promotion (r/technology)

• That1guyUknow918: So how many followers did it gain him?
• MetalBawx: Because he’s lying. It’s a PR stunt to get attention for the Youtube channel which is why Dave didn’t explain why he used a corporate card because he didn’t.
• forksporkspoon: Dave must be an executive, because anyone else abusing the company credit line would already be fired.

PS5 Linux lead quits as open-source projects have become “a bunch of noobs using LLMs” that “they don’t even understand” (r/technology)

• CrispyCassowary: People that use LLMs cant be trusted in the moding scene, not smart enough to hang there, especially when they go snitch on themselves to Sony
• PremierBromanov: Turns out you can’t do what i do
• Jmc_da_boss: Real, the open source community has been killed by LLMs, not because they can do it which they can’t. But because they make the most annoying mfers in the world THINK they can do it.