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Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.

Feb. 27, 2026

https://archive.ph/hwHbe

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said in a memo to employees this week that “we have long believed that A.I. should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.”

More than 100 employees at Google signed a petition calling on the tech giant to “refuse to comply” with the Pentagon on some uses of artificial intelligence in military operations.

And employees at Amazon, Google and Microsoft urged their leaders in a separate open letter on Thursday to “hold the line” against the Pentagon.

Silicon Valley has rallied behind the A.I. start-up Anthropic, which has been embroiled in a dispute with President Trump and the Pentagon over how its technology may be used for military purposes. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, has said he does not want the company’s A.I. to be used to surveil Americans or in autonomous weapons, saying this could “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”

Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.

Feb. 27, 2026

https://archive.ph/hwHbe

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said in a memo to employees this week that “we have long believed that A.I. should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.”

More than 100 employees at Google signed a petition calling on the tech giant to “refuse to comply” with the Pentagon on some uses of artificial intelligence in military operations.

And employees at Amazon, Google and Microsoft urged their leaders in a separate open letter on Thursday to “hold the line” against the Pentagon.

Silicon Valley has rallied behind the A.I. start-up Anthropic, which has been embroiled in a dispute with President Trump and the Pentagon over how its technology may be used for military purposes. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, has said he does not want the company’s A.I. to be used to surveil Americans or in autonomous weapons, saying this could “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”

US President Donald Trump told his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed, that Saudi Arabia asked him to impose sanctions on the emirates over their support for Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), The New York Times reported on Friday.

The report says that Trump delivered the message to Mohammed bin Zayed in a November phone call, after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the White House.

Middle East Eye was the first to reveal the Saudi crown prince’s plan to lobby Trump against the UAE for its support of the RSF, whose month-long siege of el-Fasher in Darfur was described by a United Nations panel last week as bearing the “hallmarks of genocide”.

Also see !meshtastic@mander.xyz

As the saying goes if it seems to be good to be true it is. But I wanted to be hopeful maybe just once more that maybe something could be great. Encrypted email with an unlimited sized inbox ?!!? Yes please !!!

Welp sadly it seems it’s once again to good to be true.

I made an account just to see how it was. I was immediately greeted with link to buy their premium for a year, using my initial email I selected. When I finally figured out how to say no I was able to use my “backup option” for free. I found this all too off putting. But no matter I wanted to keep going, maybe it’s just bad UI.

Moved onto my tracker test using a standard browser. And sadly it failed immediately. On the main info site atomic mail tries to use 6 trackers. Within the login / inbox they try to throw on another 3, one of their own scripts (maybe innocuous) and two from cloud flare. Those trackers are Google related !

For the privacy email they claim had no tracking I found this sinister.

I immediately deleted my account.

Unless someone can speak up to what those trackers are and why I shouldn’t worry I’ll recommend everyone avoid it.

Review by @64bithero@lemmy.world

Hi everyone!

So as some of you might know the original TCB was active until the summer of last year when the creator decided to shelve it.

It was a neat bot that many on the Threadiverse liked (including myself) because it really helped surface little and niche comms

It worked by calculating 2 metrics for every comm (based on the data provided by Lemmyverse.net), Daily Active Users and Subscribers gained across a 7 day average and listed the top 10 or so for each category (while excluding large comms that have no problems gaining subscribers and active users, check the sidebar for specifics on what's being excluded)

I rebuilt it in the same spirit (As best I could anyways, based on what I was able to infer by past posts, the 0g bot code was never released) and I'm having it post at !trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe each day between 9 and 9:30 PM UTC the days trending communities (final posting time depends on processing time)

I've been watching it for some months (It was absolutely a carefully planned observation to, not me forgetting it was running until I saw it's post thankful it was posting reliably LMAO) to make sure it was doing good autonomously before announcing and it's been decent for some time now, still some things to iron out like why it's still doing decimals when it's supposed to be rounding lol, but the important stuff is settled.

So come on down and subscribe to see what's trending on the Threadiverse everyday!

I'm open to suggestions too!

I know some of you who noticed it operating have been asking about PieFed support and it's really dependent on the data of @tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net awsome Lemmyverse.net, but the PF datasets don't seem to be available on the data tab as of yet. But as far as I can tell, all the same metrics (that TCB needs anyways) are collected already, so I'll update support for it if/when it's available.