So not only was the AI put front and center, it was also put in first?!

I’ve looked at plenty of alpha software before, and I’ve seen plenty of incomplete features. I understand that one has to give an unfinished product leeway. But devs do not simply accidentally add a whole feature into an app. Or if this was somehow all a huge coincidental mistake, they made a massive PR blunder.

I’ve seen articles in The Onion with less fluff, and more honesty, than this one…

What is this article? Besides terrible, I mean. This article is terrible.

First of all, this isn’t a new leak. It’s not even a combination of old leaks. It’s just somebody noticing that a bunch of leaks existed and did an Excel Sum operation on the passwords on them.

According to Vilius Petkauskas at Cybernews, whose researchers have been investigating the leakage since the start of the year, “30 exposed datasets containing from tens of millions to over 3.5 billion records each,” have been discovered. In total, Petkauskas has confirmed, the number of compromised records has now hit 16 billion. Let that sink in for a bit.

And to add insult to injury, the article has this gem:

Is This The GOAT When It Comes To Passwords Leaking?

Password compromise is no joke.

Certainly not with writing like this.

There are so few posts that downvoting it doesn’t seem to have a negative effect on viewing it. And as an added bonus, it doesn’t affect the poster’s ability to share further articles.

Just realized Elon Musk signs your checks. That must suck

It’s a good thing those cars had working doors

You’re right, it’s not a comment. It supersedes comments. Digg is literally showing you an AI-first ecosystem.

This isn’t some UI glitch. It’s a feature they stuck front and center. Digg is trying to start a second honeymoon period with users. Why do you think things would get better after that?

This is not evidence to the contrary

besides the whole rocket blowing up thing?

SpaceX is a well-ran innovative company

their rocket just blew up

If you were sketched out before, look again. It got so much worse, I had to update my post.

Well, at least it was a private company rocket ship and not my tax dollars… Right?

I was paraphrasing and trying to be nice. Fine, you didn’t say humans yearn for the workplace. You said humans existentially require the workplace.

I think if AI replaces humans in the workplace, even with UBI, humans would cease to exist shortly thereafter as our lives will have become meaningless

According to technical experts, internet service providers across the country have begun implementing a rule that limits data transfers from sites using Cloudflare to just the first 16 kilobytes. This technique is relatively subtle but effective: very lightweight, basic websites can still load, creating a façade of normal internet function, while modern, media-rich sites are effectively broken.

16 KB per website? What part of the normal internet is that small? What part of the indie web is that small?

e.g. look at the smallest sites on https://512kb.club/

Or is this just 16kb per request, which would make more sense with the following explanation:

Analysts report that similar throttling is also being applied to other major western hosting providers popular with Russian users, including Germany’s Hetzner and the US-headquartered DigitalOcean… [they] are widely used by Russians to host private VPN servers, which allow them to bypass the Kremlin’s ever-widening blocklists.

AFAIK, VPNs maintain a long-standing connection that would definitely use more than 16kb at a time.

You said people yearn for “the workplace”

I see many issues, including following Google’s lead in building a zero-click internet for the uncurious

Imagine paying tuition to Stanford and getting this

I see no reason to engage with, or trust anything created by, a bullshit generator. If Digg claims to “care” about the humans, then making the top comment into a brick wall (which has zero accountability) is a funny way of showing it.

But then again, I’m sure their privacy policy also says they care about your privacy.

this would-be Reddit competitor, built for the AI era

Oh no…

The founders think that the internet is being flooded with bots and AI agents, which will create demand for online communities like Digg that foster real human connections.

Okay, Digg has my cautious attention…

Beneath posts, Digg is leveraging AI to summarize the article’s content.

And they lost me.

You serious?

“Universal basic income” has become the tech bro’s thought-terminating cliché to avoid criticism. When you hear one of them say it, they might as well be saying “magic”. They’re 100% invested in the problem, but you’ll notice they’re 0% invested in that supposed solution…