The saga has drawn speculation from other experts, like William Dormann from Tharros, who said that “MSRC used to be quite excellent to work with. But to save money, Microsoft fired the skilled people, leaving flowchart followers. I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft closed the case after the reporter refused to submit a video of the exploit, since that’s apparently an MSRC requirement now.”

. . . In this day and age, when AI-powered security research has arguably made the standard 90-day disclosure-to-patch window completely obsolete, and both time-until-exploit and unused exploits are both nearing zero, Microsoft and other software players would do well to adjust their policies.

That’s such an insane aside. 90-day disclosure-to-patch. Craziness.

On the other hand, this is exactly the way microsoft has been for - easily - 30 years. Like, 1996 microsoft could be slotted into today and literally nothing would change. Other than Nadella would probably be on a bunch of coke.

“Critics”

Very cool idea! Going with the Coyote theme maybe name it Wile E?

That’s true but the pricing doesn’t match the expense by a long shot. The question is - what is going to give out first? Capital, or the all-you-can-eat pricing? (and yes the latter is closing as we speak)

Oh that’s fun!

Or, install ghostwriter to launch at login.

2026’s Google I/O (Google’s annual developer conference) has been a disaster for the web. The conference-driven development’s forcing through of the Prompt API, a set of Modern Web Guidance skills for AI systems to use that are already showing major accessibility shortcomings, and a whole ton more AI-spangled sloppery, is rushed and unwelcome.

I think the most damaging announcement is the changes coming to Google Search. Rather than a list of relevant links, a search on Google will be more aggressively prioritising the LLM-generated summary, now complete with vibecoded tables, graphs, and interactive elements.

There has until now been a social contract. Website owners let Google scrape their sites and present them in Google Search, and, in exchange, Google Search sends traffic back to those sites. Google wins via adverts on the search page, and sites win due to however they monetise traffic. More largely, everyone wins because there is a financial incentive to create and produce new content.

However, Google killing their side of the contract ends this. If Google only takes and never gives, then sites cannot profit. What is the incentive to publish if the only outcome is feeding Google’s AI with no return? What sources will LLMs have to pull from if all the sources are defunct? How far will Google go folding adverts into their AI output?

I can see the huge short-term gain for Google, but I see no long-term path – not even an unsustainable one. This feels like the end, but of exactly what I’m uncertain.

All of my peers (bar the ones that work at Google) are shattered in a way I’ve never seen before. I don’t know where we go from here.

Great.

Great.

I thought it said 170. But that’s the full version. 20GB for the shell & OS’es d/l a la carte.

How are you feeling about that now?

I feel torn. Working here is not easy. From the outside, there’s massive negative sentiment, and there’s certainly something there. But the pain of working here is not very well understood. It’s this grand calculus of what it costs to live in the Bay Area and what personal sacrifices you are willing to make and what you’re willing to do for money. On the one hand, I feel massively privileged and lucky to work at a place like this. On the other hand, I’m like, where is my line?

Christ.

Bluesky has an algorithm?

I was gonna go with banning all UK regulators.

What’s “Meta”? Is that like a clothing brand or something?

/s

I don’t see it. Like the guy in the article said, it starts out looking like a joke . . . Buuuut it ain’t.

Woke computer nerds fucked us

Edit: just to reassure the more anxious amongst us, I mean ‘woke’ in the maga sense of anything-i-don’t-like-is-woke. Not actually woke.

Actually woke computer nerds observe proper security protocols ffs.

I’m sure that will be an excuse but no, this was lazy-ass we-dont-wanna incompetent garbage devs.

Government contractors were a mistake

Mmmmm . . Nnno, i don’t have that one. Oh - there’s a “Ghyynah”, is that it?

All going to plan, comrade

Sorry, I hear ya. You are so not the only one either. Hang in there. Hey - this place may have some open positions soon?