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Techmeme surfaced this May 17, 2026 story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original article is Kim Zetter’s May 16, 2026 Zero Day report, Experts Confirm the Fast16 Malware Was Sabotaging Nuclear Weapons Tests, Likely in Iran.

What Fast16 was built to do

Fast16 matters because it reframes one of the oldest assumptions about cyber sabotage. The obvious image is a machine breaking: centrifuges spinning out of control, industrial equipment shutting down, or a facility losing power. Zetter’s report describes something quieter and arguably more corrosive. Fast16 appears to have been designed to make engineers trust the wrong numbers.

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I hate the engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI. I also want to be one of them. (Blind)

• RnBnG (Uber): Ignore anyone trying to troll, it’s normal to grapple with a contradiction like this. I have prep notes on both Anthropic and OpenAI’s processes Well, if I’m being honest, I only have Anthropic but I am planning on getting my hands on info about Open AI howver I can.
• dhcuvsk (Amazon): Engineers are not doing much. It’s the researchers that are pushing the model breakthroughs.
• SqgE48 (Spotify): The problem is not the engineers… they are just doing their work, the problem is capitalism and the fact that now companies that dominate the fucking economy can do the same with way less.

Amazon is laying off in “secret” RIGHT NOW and it’s strategic. (Blind)

• rasesh (Amazon): BS … no silent layoffs are happening … I see lot of silent hiring infact
• XqXe67: Yet people will be clamoring to join the second they post a job.
• BB-18 (Google): What a POS company

Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day (r/technology)

• darkrose3333: This country needs to rewrite its employment laws. Companies shouldn’t be able to layoff just to get a temporary bump on the books. Stop destroying peoples’ lives just so number go up you sick fucks
• Majestically-Silver: As someone who was affected by one of their layoffs last year and is still looking for work, fuck them.
• HoosierRed: Hey just remember that Tech is there to exploit you, not to carry us all into a better age.

The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly (r/technology)

• Syzygy2323: I’m just waiting for the AI bubble to burst so I can buy RAM and SSDs again without taking out a second mortgage.
• RidetheSchlange: An AI backlash would not be ugly. It would be warranted.
• Luna-D-reams: “Why is everyone so mad at me? I’m only trying to take everyone’s jobs, water, and electricity!”

Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers / A new report calls the impact significant and “irreversible.” (r/technology)

• Severus-Snape-DaGod: Data centers should be required to finance and build their own power generation instead of shifting those costs onto residents.
• King_Kung: I’m pretty sure we could reverse it if we really wanted to
• Curious_Maximum_639: Irreversible because corporations only increase prices.

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What happened

Cloudflare’s official engineering blog published Our billing pipeline was suddenly slow. The culprit was a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse, a post about a production performance regression in a petabyte-scale ClickHouse deployment and the upstream database changes Cloudflare made to fix it.

The setting is unusually concrete. Cloudflare uses ClickHouse to run millions of daily analytical queries that determine customer usage, support billing for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and feed fraud systems and other operational workflows. The affected platform, Ready-Analytics, lets internal teams stream data into a shared ClickHouse table instead of hand-designing separate schemas. Records are distinguished by namespace, sorted within each namespace by an indexID, and ordered by timestamp, giving the table a primary key shaped around tenant-specific query patterns.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 15, 2026 Wired story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original article is Maxwell Zeff’s Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up.

What changed

OpenAI is reorganizing its product leadership again, and the important part is not just the title change. Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, is now formally leading product strategy in addition to his infrastructure work. Wired reports that Brockman had already been overseeing products on an interim basis while Fidji Simo, the CEO of AGI deployment, was on medical leave. The new memo makes that arrangement official and pairs it with a broader consolidation of OpenAI’s product surface.

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Rumor: Possible Linkedin Layoffs Tomorrow 5/13 (or 5/14) (Blind)

• fjwoxhaba (LinkedIn): Rumors are saying directors were notified earlier today so quite likely
• tlLd05 (LinkedIn): Yep confirmed 50% layoff
• yacdiz (Microsoft): LinkedIn has over 20k employees. To be reduced to 5k

Getting ready to be cut (Blind)

• gahhqbuau (Synopsys): Amazon managers should be banned from joining other companies.
• luvrboi (Amazon): Once you’re PIPed it’s already over, my boy. Take the time looking for a new gig now. Line up the last day either a new gig and severance, with a lil break in between. Chefs kiss. Good luck
• flqc47 (Amazon): Dont let them define you. Pip doesn’t mean you are not good at all. Some mgr is just a selfish, mediocre person. The env not a good fit for you. Your luck begins from now!

Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI (r/technology)

• marvbinks: Get ready for the lowest test scores in 133 years!
• In-All-Unseriousness: I bet someone tries to sneak in with smart glasses.
• Munchingmarshmallows: There are schools that have unproctored finals???

‘A’ Grades Are Suddenly Everywhere Since the Arrival of ChatGPT (r/technology)

• aiodigitalfootprint: So glad I graduated college before the ChatGPT boom. I feel so incredibly lucky
• Modem_Sound_67: but in terms of actual mastery of the content… probably closer to ‘F’
• LucentG: Education will need to adapt, stricter testing environments and a higher expectation from students in demonstrating their knowledge in all other assignments and grading avenues.

Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard (r/technology)

• generalsilliness: Let’s get rid of the poor. They can be replaced by AI now. It’s not profitable to waste resources on them.
• anyparties: What if we had, hold on what’s it called again, affordable housing instead?
• redditobserverone: Why don’t the tech billionaires build them on their sprawling properties.

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What happened

NVIDIA’s official technical blog published How the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform is Solving Agentic AI’s Scale-Up Problem, a post about the hardware, networking, compiler, and serving-stack design needed to make long-context agentic inference both fast and economical at frontier scale.

The post starts from a useful premise: agentic inference is not just ordinary batched inference with more tokens. A single user session can expand into a sequence of model calls, tool invocations, observations, retries, subagents, and long conversation state. Each branch carries its own system prompt, tool definitions, accumulated KV cache, and new tokens. When that state is routed through trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts models, the serving system has to move activations and cache-dependent work across many accelerators while still keeping per-token latency low enough for an interactive product.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 14, 2026 story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original post is Calif’s First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5.

What happened

Security firm Calif says its engineers, working with Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, built a working macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 hardware in five days. The claim is notable because the target was not an old or lightly defended system. Calif says the exploit ran on bare-metal M5 hardware with kernel Memory Integrity Enforcement enabled, targeting macOS 26.4.1 from an unprivileged local user and ending with root access.

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If you’re young and in CS, switch tracks (Blind)

• not fiona (Google): Back in my day, every young man was motivated to do a hard job. 68% of males ages 14-21 were working, but now that number has fallen to just 38%. Today’s young men waste away their physical prime and thus their peak earning years. They want to be a couch/computer potato. They spend ten hours a week chatting with AI instead of learning social skills. Some of them want a vacation so they apply for a visa abroad. It is because of the irresponsible parents who raise such lazy kids.
• Barney S (Airbnb): SWE will reduce significantly and FDE will increase significantly. Salary will still keep up but desirable skill sets will change. Bottom line: if you are autistic, anti-social but not IQ 150 you should pivot
• TzCEen (Klaviyo): As if every other career isn’t fucked. If you work at a desk, Claude is coming for you in the same way that it came for SWE. Eventually there will be some agentic workflow to do every other job and employers will cut as many employees as they can to milk their margins. Sure, you can become a nurse or plumber, but that would suck in its own ways.

Offers from OpenAI Anthropic and Nvidia. Which to choose? (Blind)

• yegv (Google): Vote for anthropic. OpenAI is toxic and full of meta mates
• frotoge (OpenAI): What a crazy coincidence to not only line up offers from all 3 at the same time, but to also be too much of a bozo to make your own decisions. Must be one in a billion!
• staffMLE? (LinkedIn): Fake, TC can’t be equivalent. Nvidia new offers don’t compare with OAI and Anthropic. Why don’t you go ahead and add xAI as well

‘It’s like we don’t exist’: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers (r/technology)

• ShiftyUsmc: Man, this whole data center thing seems like it might not be such a good idea
• Nice-Mixing: So people are going without power so the aristocracy can take all our jobs away, is that right…
• Random_Man-child: My favorite thing is how Republicans claimed our grid could not support electric cars, but data centers perfectly fine.

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (r/technology)

• NOT_EVEN_THAT_GUY: corporate is rotting my brain
• scraplocator: if only the business and tech bros in every industry could have that kind of self awareness.
• BezosLazyEye: Problem is, if you’re not using AI you’re outperformed by developers who are. So in the eyes of the managers you’re worth less, since they only care about delivering something that works not how it works. This is going to bite us in the ass so badly in the future.

Tech Layoff Wave Has Already Hit 100,000 Jobs This Year (r/technology)

• Harkonnen_Dog: Stop buying their products.
• GimmeNewAccount: So you’re saying now is not the time to quit my stable, but highly stressful, tech job?
• Alan4Bama: I was one of those today

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What happened

OpenAI’s official engineering blog published Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows, a post about the operating-system engineering needed to make local coding agents useful on Windows without giving them unchecked access to a developer machine.

The problem is specific to agentic coding tools. Codex runs on a user’s laptop through the CLI, IDE extension, or desktop app, while the model itself runs in the cloud. The local harness can ask the operating system to run shell commands, read files, write files, run tests, invoke build tools, install dependencies, or create Git branches. By default, those commands inherit the real user’s permissions. That is powerful enough to be useful and dangerous enough to need an OS-enforced boundary.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this May 12, 2026 essay: Revisiting “No Silver Bullets” in the age of AI.

The old question returns

Gergely Orosz uses Frederick Brooks’s 1986 essay “No Silver Bullet” as a way to test the AI coding moment against a harder standard than demo output. Brooks argued that no single technology or management technique would create a tenfold improvement in software productivity, reliability, or simplicity, because the hardest parts of software are bound up with complexity, judgment, coordination, and changing requirements.