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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this July 7, 2026 report, Tech jobs market in 2026, part 3: hiring managers & job seekers. Based on conversations with more than 50 hiring managers, engineers, and engineering leaders, Gergely Orosz argues that the software job market has become stranger than the aggregate data suggests: hiring teams say they cannot find the right people, while experienced candidates say they cannot get seen at all.

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New Harvard study proves AI isn’t a bubble? (Blind)

• placement (Amazon): This is not definition of non bubble
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): Result depends on who paid for the study.
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): You can find a study for almost everything your heart desires.

Made it to the final round at OpenAI and got rejected by someone who had been at the company less than a week (Blind)

• cQfh64 (Intuit): It is all luck my friend. Accept it and move on..
• VLSy66 (Apple): Maybe this person was hired for your position.
• fjvueje (Amazon): I hate such a 0/1 interview outcome while the process is so thorough

Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware through anime girl wallpapers (r/technology)

• M39FG9SFGQ: That’s hilarious
• xangbar: Glad I stuck to my Genshin wallpapers instead. Been using the same ones for 5+ years.
• BiBoFieTo: They attacked at our weakest moment.

AMD silently removes memory encryption from GPUs without explanation (r/technology)

• JackSpyder: Forced by the US gov and cant legally say why? My bet.
• Super_flywhiteguy: If it sounds like a backdoor being cracked open, its because its a backdoor being cracked open.
• lazyhustlermusic: They sure get more douchebaggy as their market cap increases.

ICE appears to be buying immigrants’ tax data from LexisNexis (r/technology)

• drewc717: I had a business law professor years ago whose life’s work was basically hating the fact that LexisNexis existed
• Aggeloz: How tf is this kind of data even allowed to be sold and bought????
• SmoothConfection1115: It’s almost definitely not just “tax data” like this headline might make you think (to me I think of W2s and 1040s). LN is an incredibly powerful tool to find all kinds of information about people from disparate sources. Reverse searching phone numbers and email addresses is a common one, but it can also provide detailed information about employment, assets, criminal history, traffic stops, and associates. LN doesn’t produce anything but just slurps up data from all over the place and makes a centralized place to search it.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 6, 2026 item in its cluster on Anthropic’s J-space research, linking to Anthropic’s post, A global workspace in language models, and the full technical paper, Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. The piece argues that Claude has developed a small, privileged internal workspace for concepts it can report, manipulate, and use in deliberate reasoning, even when those concepts never appear in the model’s visible output.

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Nvidia can’t even afford free coffee for its employees. Why? (Blind)

• dddpj (Palo Alto Networks): Is this true? The richest company in history doesn’t give free coffee and snacks?
• coh26 (ex-Honeywell): Meta can’t afford to keep its employees. Why?
• h7k-6gjL (NVIDIA): Yeah I’ll take no layoff fears over free coffee. Especially since I’m fully remote. RTO? Never heard of it

Lost hope after layoffs and failed interviews (Blind)

• dnxuli (Meta): Hang in there bud! Market is brutal!
• fiiope (eBay): But you made lots of money off coinbase already
• Melly00 (ByteDance): Invest more in your interview prep. You already converted well with screens & onsites, you just aren’t capitalizing on them. The markets tough, 2.5 is nothing

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content (r/technology)

• Yung_zu: This is a pretty concise example of the reality of having these people be our “job creators”
• Starship_Taru: I feel like if I did half the shit meta did I’d be in jail
• -ghostinthemachine-: This is a normal part of testing model guardrails (red teaming), not just for your own safety evaluations but to compare the safety profile of competing models to your own. In fact, it is almost always done in coordination with the model providers to let them know ahead of time so you don’t get banned.

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium (r/technology)

• 404PUNK: Crazy to think we’re building a ton of these things on purpose. Its almost like someone in charge thought we weren’t killing the planet fast enough.
• Daimakku1: The fact that politicians were/are giving tax and other incentives for these data centers to be built in their areas tells you everything you need to know about who they really work for.. and it ain’t us. There is nothing but downsides to people who live near these data centers.
• mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw: Tell me again how people opposing data centers are just irrational Luddites.

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country (r/technology)

• Annonnymist: Trump wants to pardon 250 people today then this Air Force gentleman should also be pardoned
• shocontinental: It couldn’t have been him, he was with me the whole time . . . at church
• binding_swamp: Rise up! Flock surveillance rollout is a bad development and will only get worse if people don’t push back.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 4, 2026 item in its Mechanical Turk maintenance cluster, linking to Simon Sharwood’s July 3 Register article, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers - and not even AI can save it. The story tracks AWS placing Mechanical Turk into maintenance and closing it to new customers on July 30, 2026, a small product notice with unusually long historical reach.

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Engineering at Meta’s official engineering blog published Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale, a July 1, 2026 post by Sidharth Bajaj and Venkatraghavan Srinivasan about how Meta changed its BLOB-storage stack for AI training workloads.

The post is interesting because it treats AI storage as part of the training system rather than as a passive backing store. At frontier-training scale, the expensive resource is not storage media; it is stalled GPU time. A storage path that was good enough for consumer products and data lakes can become too slow once hundreds of thousands of GPUs synchronize in lockstep and wait on the slowest dataloader. Meta’s central engineering move is to redesign BLOB storage around bounded tail latency, local data availability, and research iteration speed.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 4, 2026 item in its top-news cluster on ByteDance’s Seedance video generator, linking to Nilesh Christopher’s Los Angeles Times story, China-backed AI tool behind fake Brad Pitt fight making Hollywood inroads. The piece is dated July 3, 2026, and it reports that ByteDance is pushing Seedance into Hollywood through pricing, filmmaker outreach, model quality, and production-oriented controls such as timeline-based prompting.

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Google L7 to Anthropic T6 (Blind)

• 6️⃣7️⃣: You can say no
• scHR67 (Uber): they starting to low ball now hahah
• BLaA58 (Google): Lol no

OpenAI Proposes 5% US Gov Stake: A New Precedent for Tech Regulation? (Blind)

• iqbdh (Meta): Scam Altman
• dfgjbvv (Meta): Corrupt mfers
• 46cahdY (DoorDash): Bribe.

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI (r/technology)

• Sufficient-Skill9530: Says the guy that always talks about the antichrist and looks like a demon.
• Tessa7: Another person that ran out of people to tell him ’no’ a long time ago and now thinks he has some sort of special insights
• Silicon_Knight: I never thought anyone could make Elon Musk look sane.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!” (r/technology)

• ottwebdev: Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers from saying what he really thinks during live interview…..
• williamgman: Is ketamine the new CEO breakfast of champions?
• jobrien80: Congratulations to Drugs. Clear winner of the war on drugs.

Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them (r/technology)

• BoppinMonkey: Welcome to Little Tikes Democracy. You may be holding a wheel, but Big Brother is pushing you wherever he wants.
• Hi_Im_Dadbot: Someone should call the police about that.
• sad_cosmic_joke: It’s almost as if “fighting crime” isn’t the actual purpose of these systems??

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Techmeme surfaced this July 3, 2026 story in its top-news cluster on Alibaba banning Claude Code, and the concrete original URL is The Information’s briefing, Alibaba Bans Employees From Using Claude. The Information reports that Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code and told them to remove Claude models from work machines, citing internal security concerns about recently discovered hidden code that could identify Chinese users.

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Microsoft Layoffs are Only just getting started (Blind)

• ❓Vain❓ (Microsoft): Bunch of word salad
• dNrMySDE (Microsoft): Cool story
• nbfigure (Meta): Ok Rajesh.

How much of your AI code do you actually understand? (Blind)

• texF34 (Meta): Needs “nothing” option
• vVoT00 (Amazon): none of it sometimes
• Dumped (Robinhood): Every character

Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI” (r/technology)

• Winter_Particular904: Yankovic is a national treasure
• Quenz: He’s a good dude. He’s turned down advertising for alcohol because it would put him at odds with his demographic.
• the_astro_cat: We need more Al, and less AI

New California study finds highly educated workers most harmed by AI (r/technology)

• Entrefut: They don’t see highly skilled workers as as asset, they see them as an expense. They want to remove the concept of skilled labor from their business models.
• drkstar1982: For now, if the rich have their way, AI will come for all jobs.
• --Edit_Deleted--: Well yeah, ai ain’t flipping burgers or kicking tyres now.

‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution. (r/technology)

• Haunterblademoi: And as long as data centers continue to be built, that will increase.
• MisterSanitation: Whoa the paid supporters got in here FAST
• supercali45: These Datacenters are going to be raided for parts soon