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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
• ouhfgfgyn (LinkedIn): 5/13 confirmed by multiple sources

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
• –author (Google): Google has been doing this for years.
• nkrtf (Amazon): I can confirm layoffs are happening

AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds (r/technology)

• Dr-Moth: Workers with salaries you control, have been replaced by AI agents with costs you can’t control. The short term gains are replaced by long term dependency.
• KyuubiW1ndscar: the people who needed to lose their job, didn’t.
• antrage: Heres a radical idea, maybe use the AI to make your workforce put less time on menial tasks so they put more energy on tasks that are creative and will make your company more profitable in terms of innovation.

Amazon employees are inflating AI usage to top leaderboards and impress managers (r/technology)

• Square-Bluejay3476: This is what happens when companies start measuring “AI usage” instead of measuring whether the work actually improved. People will optimize for the metric they’re judged on, even if the metric itself is meaningless.
• Frequent-Test-3012: Your work performance is judged now not on how good your work is, but instead on how much you can use the slop machine.
• pr1aa: When a measure becomes a goal, it’s no longer a good measure

4 engineers now doing the job of 12 at my friend’s company because AI agents handle the rest (r/cscareerquestions)

• DeusSapien: When Bill Gates said AI would introduce 2 day workweek, this is what he meant. 8 engineers are not going work 2-day work week, instead there will be 4 engineers working 5-day work weeks while trying to output the work of 8 engineers
• Ill-Independence6422: cool so we’re all just speedrunning ourselves out of a job
• BiIlEGoat: How has no one mentioned this post is written by ai

Kickstarter bans all NSFW content from the website (r/technology)

• LittlestWeapon: I’m assuming at the pressure of the credit card processors?
• physical0: Anyone wanna kickstart my new payment processor?
• Biggu5Dicku5: They had NSFW content?

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What happened

Microsoft’s official Security Blog published Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark, a post about MDASH, Microsoft’s multi-model agentic scanning harness for vulnerability discovery and validation.

The post is interesting because it treats AI-assisted security review as a production engineering system rather than a smarter static analyzer. MDASH is not framed as one frontier model pointed at a repository. It is a pipeline that prepares a target codebase, builds indices, maps attack surfaces, runs specialized auditor agents over candidate paths, sends findings through adversarial validation, deduplicates semantically similar reports, and then tries to prove that a vulnerability can actually be triggered.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this May 13, 2026 story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original post is Meta’s Introducing a Completely Private Way to Chat With AI. WhatsApp also published its own companion post, Introducing Incognito Chat with Meta AI.

Meta is rolling out Incognito Chat for Meta AI on WhatsApp and in the Meta AI app. The promise is straightforward: people can ask AI sensitive questions without the conversation being visible to Meta or retained as a normal chatbot log. Meta says the feature runs on WhatsApp’s Private Processing infrastructure, processes messages in a secure environment, does not save the conversation, and makes chats disappear by default.

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Top AI Startups Which Are Not OpenAI/Anthropic (Blind)

• Bibimbump (Glean): Glean
• SissyCo (Cisco): Poolside and Zyphra
• kkrimtim (NVIDIA): Thinking machines

Best date to join Uber (Blind)

• chimarki (Meta): Best date is never
• hacker201 (Booking.com): what is your YOE and level ?
• andyKiMaKi (Rippling): What’s your level?

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ (r/technology)

• boyyouvedoneitnow: Private Equity VP as a commencement speaker SUCKS
• Badj83: “and you… You are the horses!”
• QuailBrave49: Honestly, let’s stop glamorizing AI.

Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (r/technology)

• thenexus6: Desktop only for me then, which means I’ll be on here even less.
• Negafox: Not interested in websites trying to force their app. I don’t need a zillion apps on my phone that are just the mobile site running in Chromium
• AwfulUsername123: Old Reddit remains the proper way to browse Reddit.

Mass npm Supply Chain Attack Hits TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170+ Packages (r/programming)

• cauchy37: One would think that after all those supply chain attacks most big companies would use private artifactory that’s like a month or two behind, to prevent exactly this.
• vips7L: Saved again by being a Luddite and not using vscode or Claude. 
• Maybe-monad: Always pin your packages

Is the push for AI burning anyone else out? (r/cscareerquestions)

• Melodic-Ebb-7781: I mainly feel squeezed. On one hand we’re supposed to quickly start writing all code with LLMs and hit new ambitious targets but on the other corporate are cheaping out on tokens, and tools (we don’t even have claude code only copilot) and IT refuses data connectors to be setup between different internal knowledge bases. Instead we’re getting endless workshops with external consultants who mostly seem clueless.
• klibs: Yes it sucks
• maxou2727: You just have dumb management, jump ship before they start realizing their mistakes and layoff people.

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What happened

Google DeepMind’s official blog published AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields, a May 7, 2026 post about moving AlphaEvolve from an algorithm-discovery research system into a practical optimization tool used across science, AI infrastructure, and commercial engineering.

The post is interesting because AlphaEvolve is not framed as a general assistant that writes plausible code. It is framed as an optimizer wrapped around executable artifacts. The underlying system combines Gemini models with automated evaluators and an evolutionary loop: models propose code changes, evaluators run and score the candidates, strong variants are retained, and the program database feeds future prompts. That architecture matters because it gives the agent a tight feedback signal. The model can be creative, but progress is selected by objective tests rather than by conversational confidence.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced Emma Roth’s May 12, 2026 article for The Verge, and the original article is George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing. The Techmeme item framed the announcement as a new AI licensing effort from RSL Media, backed by high-profile creative figures and entertainment organizations.

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Is Java a looked down upon language, if you code in Java you a disgrace? (Blind)

• Satya N. 🧑🏽‍🦲 (Microsoft): Yes it signals WITCH tier. And whatever you do don’t say spring boot lmfao
• bjdpq (Microsoft): To the people saying it’s looked down upon, what is the elite language?
• AI (Stripe): Who still cares about language now? We have AI.

Is Microsoft still a decent place to work for? (Blind)

• WhoAmI000 (Microsoft): Remember you’re on Blind where default mode is grumpy with victim mentality. Of course you’re going to hear it sucks. This isn’t where the happy people hang out. Truth is, it’s like every other enterprise - depends on the group, your work and manager. There are people who are very good who love their jobs at Microsoft - just like everywhere else. However, the majority aren’t here lurking Blind.
• nutella_x (Atlassian): Microsoft gave me chronic anxiety that i’m still dealing with years later. It was downright traumatizing.
• AIBotFarm (Microsoft): If you like being gaslit, it’s a great place to work.

Get out while you have the chance (Blind)

• IAmBethG (Amazon): Getting fired for slacking is actually way harder than you think. I’ve been slacking for twice as long as the severance would have been if I got lucky at the beginning.
• byemsft🤣 (Microsoft): Yes. I had a bad altercation with my manager yesterday and I will be leaving soon
• nohana4u (Salesforce): Mental health impacts general health at some point. I know first hand and wished I would have someone pushing this advice to me.

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but ‘felt’ infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects (r/technology)

• Sherman140824: Vibrations disrupt sleep
• winterbird: But the rich don’t want to hear emergency transport helicopters landing at a children’s hospital sometimes.
• 6gv5: If there are infrasound involved, seismometers must be able to detect them.

Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to “Go (Bleep) yourself” over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to pay the legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer (r/technology)

• kilgoreq: I’m always on Rossmann’s side.
• Cyrisaurus: Pro-tip for companies that want to look consumer friendly: don’t threaten the guy who has dedicated his life to fighting for customer rights
• paulerxx: Louis Rossmann is a legend and every single one of us should be on his side.

How much will you miss traditional programming? (r/cscareerquestions)

• RegretNo6554: i kinda miss it but i’m just glad i went thru the struggles of learning programming from scratch pre AI and running into so many walls that trained up my debugging skills. nowadays im just building shi really fast with AI that i never had the time to do. I’ve been solving more of my own problems now rather than business or arbitrary homework problems.
• disposepriority: I still do a lot of traditional programming, because without setting up the general structure, expectations, interactions and abstractions AI takes a piss all over my codebase, so I’m not sure what you’re on about.
• andrasta25: We’re automating out the fun part. Some folks are talking about making skills that will take jira tickets and write the code for us. If we become professional jira ticket writers that’s not what I signed up for.

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What happened

Anthropic’s official research blog published Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude’s thoughts into text, a post about converting internal model activations into readable explanations that can support safety audits, debugging, and interpretability research.

The problem is that language models expose words at the interface but operate internally on dense activation vectors. Those activations may carry information about what a model is tracking, planning, or concealing, but they are not directly legible. Existing interpretability tools such as sparse autoencoders and attribution graphs can reveal structure, but they still leave researchers with complex artifacts that require expert interpretation. Anthropic’s natural language autoencoders, or NLAs, try to make that hidden state speak in ordinary text.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced Daniel Stenberg’s May 11, 2026 post, and the original article is Mythos finds a curl vulnerability. The Techmeme item framed it as a reality check on Anthropic’s restricted Mythos model: Mythos reported five security vulnerabilities in curl, but the curl security team’s manual review reduced that to one real vulnerability.

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Got a rejection from OpenAI today (Blind)

• tFql07 (eBay): Does open AI have future?
• EvansDad (Snap): Happy Birthday! Sorry but I hope you have some cake.
• JDeezNuts (Netflix): at least you have a birthday

Cloudflare laid off 20% of workforce, what a joke (Blind)

• nthin2lose (SentinelOne): What’s the severance offered?
• vitalianus (Cornerstone): Who was targeted
• V7sn0ls (U.S.Bank): Why did the stock still drop after hours ?

Claude vs ChatGPT (Blind)

• MIDZY (Microsoft): use your free unlimited copilot idiot
• &=(1«31) (OpenAI): Codex at this point far, far surpasses Claude.
• takoyaki79 (Datadog): Just use it?

Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His \$145 Billion AI Bill (r/technology)

• asdf_lord: Maybe he should get laid off
• schacks: We truly live in a new gilded age.
• proxy_noob: do you think these dorks enjoy being giant pieces of shit?

Wife works in big tech. They are going from 1 PM : 7 engineers to 1 PM : 1 engineer with a big round of layoffs hitting next week. (r/cscareerquestions)

• Marcostbo: Which big tech? Name it
• saint_celestine: I’m pretty sure this is coinbase. Their CEO talked about combining design, pm, and engineers into one role in a Twitter post
• Codex_Dev: one day the LLM companies are going to pull an Uber and jack up the prices once their competition (ie. real SWEs) retire.

Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW “hyperscale” AI data center in Utah will consume double the state’s entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day. (r/technology)

• Slippery-ape: He doesnt care, thats on the people of Utah
• 00001000U: Literally captain planet villain shit
• 62iei-836j-39-heiwhd: The worst Shark.