‘It’s not like natural intelligence is always all that great either’: Linus Torvalds addresses anti-AI sentiment in Linux development

Linux likers and AI dislikers, it’s time to raid the cutlery drawer and fork your favourite distro. Why? Because Linus Torvalds has declared that Linux is not an “anti-AI” project. Torvalds recently responded to a discussion about Sashiko, an agentic Linux kernel code review system, writing, “I realize that some people really dislike AI, but…

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The team behind Windows NT sent ‘black cardboard coffins’ and fake dog poop to their rivals back in the 90s, because nerds

No matter how smart you are, there’s always room for a little childish fun. Or an ominous threat to your rivals, one of the two. Ex-Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer interviewed the chief architect and designer of Windows NT, Dave Cutler, on his YouTube channel back in 2023, and I’ve just got around to the highlights…

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Report paints a picture of brutal cord-cutting inside Xbox layoffs: ‘Many of us did not know what was happening for weeks’

Xbox’s 1,600 layoffs last week were brutal on the developers impacted, and will have uncertain ripples on the industry for years to come—however, a recent report from Game Developer states that the “reset” itself was chaotically implemented. Speaking with multiple sources, the report shares that employees across Xbox were “informed their jobs were being eliminated…

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