Technology

Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.

Among today’s links are markdown editors Cyberwriter, Wrangle and t-ext, and markdown viewer Mdterm. Plus a quick look at Nisus Writer Pro, a useful word processor. I first used it back in the 1990s, when I was converted over to it from WordStar by friend and magazine designer Joel Scott from the US. Even back then he had a lot to say about the ubiquity of Word

Kids and teens in Australia self-report that they're easily bypassing their country's social media restrictions.

cross-posted from: https://feditown.com/post/2911581

Today’s links include markdown editors Mark Us Down, Nimbalyst, Sveltemark, Markoun and ReText. Plus there’s static site generator Zensical and a nifty little macOS utility called Markset

April, a french NGO that promote free software in France, did this small strike to protest against the planned obsolescence of windows's computers.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/f5776fd6-22f3-43d1-806b-9858b64cfd18

The AI bubble has been a boon to the portfolios and prospects of the tech world’s biggest players. Their companies are vying for hegemony and their net worths are trending toward Mount Olympus. “It almost feels like you guys are the new Formula 1 drivers,” Theo Von told Sam Altman last year. But the race for market dominance has been anything but smooth. Beyond the hype, you can find a litany of false promises, questionable investments, and just plain decadence, complicating both their predictions for the future and claims to come in peace. Here are the numbers you won’t find in the quarterly earnings report.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/europe/p/2005227/why-the-eu-is-ditching-whatsapp

https://archive.ph/2026.04.22-210600/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-ai-child-predators-law-enforcement/

https://archive.ph/2026.04.22-142617/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-22/how-microsoft-spooked-the-global-carbon-removal-market