Pass the bong for every tech CEO who doesn’t have a fucking clue how the world works and how regular people live.

This guy likely thinks he is a visionary leader, but in reality he sounds like a condescending idiot high on his own supply. The

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/replits-ceo-says-the-future-of-work-is-the-self-driving-company/

Consulting giant Accenture has told many employees that the company will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude. Employees subject to the cap, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, are scrambling to find ways to make sure they can keep spending as much as they already are.

https://www.404media.co/accenture-tells-employees-they-can-now-spend-only-29-on-claude-per-month/

An update - one good side effect of the GenAI boom is it’s forcing Microsoft to fix decades of under-investment in security engineering. The DWM stuff is finally getting patched each month.

Orgs using vibe coded as a sales pitch, Lord. https://www.theverge.com/games/1010751/epic-games-launcher-vibe-coded-ai-linux

AI safety = regulation which protects the current market leaders. They’re begging Daddy to be regulated, because they know it’s the way to get locked in as The market.

Hypervisor escape patches for XenServer 8.4 and XenServer 9

CVE-2026-79610
CVE-2026-102700
CVE-2026-102701

https://support.citrix.com/support-home/kbsearch/article?articleNumber=CTX697170&articleTitle=XenServer_Security_Update_for_CVE_2026_79610_CVE_2026_79610_CVE_2026_102700_and_CVE_2026_102701

They’re rebooting Baywatch as a full TV show with the lead from Arrow as Mitch. The special effects look impressively bad.

If you use Bumble I'd recommend finding a different dating service and deleting your prior data if you don't use it now, as it sounds likely it is being purchased for AI training data.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm9qzwjgnjxlo

Character.AI, the GenAI site that convinced some children to kill themselves, has gone bankrupt after parents sued them.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-character-ai-bankruptcy

The Yandex decrease in threat activity narrative was a nonsense peddled by the Ukrainian government. People confuse legit search engine bots with social media bots.

Russian propaganda operations don’t run from Yandex. They never have. I deal with them all the time on Mastodon. There was no dip.

It’s a reminder that wars have propaganda - and the propaganda was coming from Ukraine this time.

Men aren’t okay

2026 cybersecurity guide for industrial systems

1) put them online
2) install VNC
3) pick no password
4) done, go watch The Chase