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MLE - Anthropic vs Meta (Blind)

• daTing3 (Meta): Why’d you even ask this here. Humble brag?
• dnxuli (Meta): Ladies and gentleman, op is what we call “hutya” ⚡️
• apple145 (Meta): Is this some kind of sick joke

Everyone wanted to join either Facebook or Google. What went wrong? (Blind)

• !AI-native (Meta): You are kidding me if it still isn’t
• hopeonly (Google): I joined for a few reasons but prestige wasn’t one of them. Am I the only one?
• oeGp70 (ex-AT&T): swe was never prestigious to begin with. only in the minds of other swe. doctor or pe/vc is more prestigious.

Stay at Amazon or join Salesforce? (Blind)

• jaskeerat (Salesforce): If your wlb is ok, stay. I made this move, there’s no learning or career progress here. No wlb either in a lot of teams
• Grind_LC_8 (Salesforce): Stay at Amazon, I too switched from Amazon to Salesforce but regret it now. There is no learning here
• carenoone (Salesforce): Salesforce is very chaotic now

Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment (r/technology)

• buttorsomething: Surprising no one.
• sniksniksnek: “Dad, how did we win the war against the machines?” “Crackheads, son. Never forget, we owe them our lives.”
• chevalier716: Finally, meth heads everywhere have found a way to work for the benefit of their communities.

Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined (r/technology)

• neat_stuff: The guy who brought us the VR headset Metaverse might not always get things right? Impossible.
• Imaginary_Manner_556: This guy is so lucky he bought instagram. His own ideas suck.
• Crivos: AI bubble go pop?

Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up (r/technology)

• Impossible-Ad6326: Because it’s shit, forced down our throats and people generally don’t like to have shit forced down their throats.
• antaresiv: It makes search more complicated because now I gotta fact check what it gives me
• odelay321: Copilot, how do you remove copilot from my pc?

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Does anyone use Gemini for coding inside Google? (Blind)

• lppmsj (Google): Everybody
• fcEs35 (Google): No we like to give token money to other companies instead.
• fhfdodmk (Google): Everyone

The golden age of tech is over (Blind)

• horn dog (Meta): Elon
• slackerswe (Microsoft): ZIRP
• gh443 (Google): Chinese 996 workers and AI

Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will “Never” Go Back to Normal (r/technology)

• zooommsu: They have to say this because there are many people postponing purchases and skipping updates in the hope that things will improve in the future.
• cotd345: It’s in their best interest to say that now. Then the bubble pops and the story changes to ‘we could have never predicted that’.
• pazz: So Bitcoin fucked up the GPU market and now AI is fucking up the RAM market? This reality sucks.

AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them (r/technology)

• mokunuimoo: You thought we were getting AGI and we’d live in Star Trek but instead it’s going to be The Slopularity and Idiocracy
• Niceromancer: They ain’t learning shit.
• wesweb: this will end up being the biggest waste of capital investment in history

Windows 10 support extended to 2027 for free — Is this Microsoft admitting Windows 11 isn’t enough? (r/technology)

• View-Maximum: This is corporate customers noping out of an expensive hardware upgrade.
• SlowCrates: Windows 11 sucks.
• ZombieZookeeper: Linux only just removed the 486 code, just saying.

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NVIDIA’s official Technical Blog published Enhancing Goodput in Large-Scale LLM Training with Nonuniform Tensor Parallelism, a July 6, 2026 post about keeping frontier-scale training jobs productive when some GPUs inside a tightly coupled training domain become temporarily unavailable.

The post is interesting because it treats training resilience as a parallelism problem, not only as a checkpointing or replacement problem. Large LLM jobs run across thousands of GPUs for long periods, and the useful measure is not raw peak throughput but Goodput: convergence-driving work completed over time. If one device in a tensor-parallel group slows down or drops out, the usual failure mode is disproportionate. A local hardware issue can stall a whole data-parallel replica, and because synchronous training waits on the slowest replica, that local issue can reduce throughput for the broader job.

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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.