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pier25 · 2026-10-28T17:26:03

Fly.io really needs to explain what happened here.

pier25 · 2026-10-27T16:49:57

Absolutely. The display on the iMac 5K was amazing. Ended up giving that machine to a nephew of mine when I moved to Apple Silicon but Apple really dropped the ball here.

pier25 · 2026-10-27T16:42:57

Of course they did. AI companies have pirated and stolen all sorts of content. What we know of is probably only the tip of the iceberg.

As for the training being fair use, this is still disputed:

https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-ma...

pier25 · 2026-10-26T15:51:31

or maybe they just need to lower their operating expenditure because they're spending too much money...

gottorf · 2026-10-26T15:57:08

Or maybe, every tech company is still shedding the overhiring they did during the Covid years.

vkou · 2026-10-26T16:01:02

A hundred years from now, COVID overhiring will still be the excuse trotted out in every layoff cycle.

philipwhiuk · 2026-10-26T17:15:46

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/num...

They gained 40,000 people in 2022. It's not a totally crazy argument.

rvz · 2026-10-26T15:55:01

Both can be true:

1) "AGI" has been achieved internally which means...

2) ...we need to lower "operating expenditure" which includes i.e (human employees) so that the AI agents can take over.

Lastly, they will use the remaining capital to build homes (data centers) for these AI agents.

_vertigo · 2026-10-26T16:04:17

How banal. The first action after achieving "AGI" is not taking over the world, curing cancer, or anything fantastic like that, but rather "lowering operating expenditure"..

pier25 · 2026-10-26T16:37:35

if they had actually reached AGI they would simply fire +90% of employees and make a huge announcement

j45 · 2026-10-26T15:59:32

Maybe they are shedding workforce to spend more on AI infrastructure like many of the other layoffs to remain competitive.

The layoffs could have nothing to do with the employees.

Spooky23 · 2026-10-26T16:16:18

They've figured out that they can offer poorly performing services that suck and nobody cares. The company will continue to explore that concept until people care.

I run an org with 200k employees. We're on our 4th significant outage with M365 services in a month. We're talking major stuff -- including user data like email getting deleted by various processes. Their approach is pretty much "meh".

bigbadfeline · 2026-10-26T17:19:13

> The company will continue to explore that concept until people care.

MS is an entrenched monopoly which is hard to move off of, especially in times of low budgets and tough debt markets. On the other hand, LLMs are reshaping the competitive landscape and MS might be reacting to that threat, in their usual MS way.

tayo42 · 2026-10-26T16:22:04

They have net income in the billions per quarter

pier25 · 2026-10-26T14:51:03

This is not even a remotely wild claim.

pier25 · 2026-10-23T03:59:07

We’re trying to get rid of fossil fuels…

pier25 · 2026-10-22T04:00:19

Maybe the author does have a point. There are millions of PHP websites and do we know of any that was pwned?

pier25 · 2026-10-22T00:27:13

> Getting Zuck to blab is what they're looking for

That but also I would imagine getting information on the record from the exhibits etc.

pier25 · 2026-10-21T22:17:59

sounds like they are trying to get rid of users of Amazon Linux honestly

pier25 · 2026-10-21T16:45:33

> OpenAI and these security companies sat on this for 2 months

The PHP team knew about it since September 21st.