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  Another actually useful stream of features for Vivaldi 8.2 - doing all the things that Mozilla should have been doing with Firefox. If they could migrate from Chrome they could own the browser space right now.

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  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd6x17kwvo

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  endlessly ironic when your employer has mandatory environmental awareness training while also being all in on AI. The choice was between a stable ecosystem and chatty bot, and we chose chatty bot. everything else is green washing.

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  institutional capture. 🤮 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/02/architect-of-uks-ai-strategy-joins-anthropic

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  "all your skills are super interesting, and the stuff you build is amazing. oh, but your h-index score is not high... oh well, I think we will end it here." if i had a world leading h-index and millions in grant funding, would i be applying for a technician job in a company? will they give me 50% of my time to do academic research if I work there? this is why the stem industry is a cluster fuck. industry != university.

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  You had one job, gpt! 🤡 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j4z27n8xyo

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  my recent project has become a demented mess of broken code and undeliverable features, so I have asked for a slowing down of the delivery until just after I leave. sorted now. 👍

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  and so VR remains exactly where it was since 1995; just around the corner 😂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8m1113ym1o

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  this is nuts. rock on 🤘 https://codewithrockstar.com

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  £5m telescope trashed to save £50k, while they pump hundreds of millions into cloud credits for AI venture capital bro's. UKRI has lost it's mind. https://www.zmescience.com/science/astronomy/hipercam-camera-funding-cut/

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  Embrace, extend, extort. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/microsofts_github_shifts_to_metered/

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  I see a bit of a return of job applications with the old jingle: "B.Sc, M.Sc, PhD preferred". Like those are just a continuum of qualifications for the same job. 🤦‍♂️

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  nailed it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9wlnwl85o

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  The original tech bro of life sciences https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01226-z

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  Another example of why AI is just part of the surveillance state. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98r4e594p7o

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  bbsrc decided that our project modelling hepA disease transmission coming into the UK wasn't worth funding. Let's see how that worked out for them. Oh... Oh well, I'm sure investing in quantum AI is paying off. https://news.sky.com/story/parents-told-to-check-childrens-handwashing-after-south-wales-hepatitis-a-outbreak-13540843

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  insert your own ironic statement. I could begin listing them but I respect the storage costs of the server admin. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-spins-up-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-engage-with-employees/

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  Upon leaving the court, the judge was dismayed to find that everybody present had somehow purchased a non-refundable WatsonX subscription and a mainframe contract. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/14/ibm_dei_settlement/

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  So Anthropic marketing has become "if you don't buy this its gonna p0wn your business, and you don't wanna get p0wned now do you boy?". They graduated from cheap grifter to protection racketeering. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ev24yx4rmo

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  Funny 'cos it's true. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fisher-price-is-pivoting-to-ai-powered-autonomous-weapons-manufacturing

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  There's a fine line between satire and reality these days. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-our-glorious-ai-future-there-will-be-no-such-thing-as-money-for-you

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  This seems to fall apart bit by bit every day. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/europe_picks_4_sovereign_cloud/

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  https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/palantir_nhs_break_clause/ "All the rights to any know-how are explicitly retained by the supplier and not passed across on termination of the contract. The contract delivers no software – not one line – just a subscribed service; a permanent lock-in; a single point of failure" <- that should be unforgivable for whoever set up the contract in a public service. instant dismissal of the entire management team. it's absolutely...