You forgot about the radio towers that have been in Belarus that allow Russia to control long range drones. Ukraine took a few out already, but there are likely more. (I’ll have to check recent drone paths to see if there are still issues.)
Just eat it right out of the can or just put the can in the microwave?
Nicotine is removed from tobacco before it is reintroduced in a controlled way during cigarette manufacturing. This creates a consistent dose per cigarette.
Lower nicotine tobacco is not needed.
May 19, 2026 3:00 PM _Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow, some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up on perks they might soon lose, several people at the company tell WIRED.
Two employees describe a widespread rush to use up an annual $2,000 flexible benefit, which can cover a variety of expenses including health and wellness activities. A separate triennial credit of $200 toward the purchase of audio gear has led to a scramble to purchase Apple AirPods and other headphones. Another source says Meta offices have been largely empty this week, as people prioritize polishing their résumés and gather offsite to commiserate with friends for what may be their final time as colleagues. Employees are variously “paralyzed,” “coasting,” and “panicked,” sources say.
Meta plans to lay off about 10 percent of its nearly 80,000 employees on Wednesday, with notices going out to affected workers’ personal and corporate email addresses at 4 am Singapore, London, or San Francisco time depending on their location, according to a company-wide memo sent on Monday. The cuts are coming at a time when the social media giant behind Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook is enjoying record-high profits.
But CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists that the company must free up cash to invest in AI data centers, and that Meta can perform just as well with fewer employees because of AI technologies that augment human labor.
Are you a current or former Meta employee who wants to talk about what’s happening? We’d like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at peard33.24 and ChaoticGoode.12. Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment for this story. The company has undergone three previous large rounds of layoffs since 2022, including as part of Meta’s one-time “year of efficiency” drive in 2023. But even though the latest round is smaller than a couple of those, it is drawing widespread scrutiny because it comes at a time of societal anxiety about AI’s impact on jobs.
Inside Meta, the imminent cuts are among several concerns that have sunk morale to unprecedented depths, according to 16 current and former employees who recently spoke to WIRED. Employees also have been frustrated by being “drafted” onto a new AI team without any choice and the rollout of surveillance software that tracks US workers’ laptop use to train AI models.
Meta also plans to internally restructure as it conducts sweeping layoffs, transferring 7,000 remaining staff to “AI initiatives” and converting more managers into individual contributors. That would bring the total number of those affected—either laid off or placed in a new role—to 20 percent of the current workforce, Reuters reported on Monday. WIRED independently confirmed this reporting. Some parts of the company have been told they won’t be affected at all.
But in recent days, employees who are bracing for changes have shared checklists internally about benefits to take advantage of, and are saving documents such as performance reviews and pay stubs, according to one worker. Some teams are meeting up at bars and restaurants near Meta offices in New York and Menlo Park on Tuesday and Wednesday to eat and drink away their sorrows, several employees said. Management has encouraged employees not to come into offices on Wednesday.
Update, May 19, 11:40 PM EDT: WIRED corrected the time zones when layoff notices will be emailed. _
Dude is almost directly quoting Russian state media and doesn’t even realize he is just parroting a narrative*.
This is why you don’t listen to state media, kids. If you hear something on repeat, over and over, you eventually begin to believe those words are true, without realizing it. Confirmation bias quickly kills any remainder of independent thought.
It’s a nasty process. If you have ever seen someone have their rational thought destroyed by MAGA, it’s the same thing. Rational discussions are pointless: They always degrade into pre-canned political talking points, whataboutisms and blaming others.
* I have often wondered if he parrots misleading narratives with purpose. ml is a perfect recruiting space for trolls and does function well enough to amplify fake or misleading news, after all.
You are not a 40 year old traveling nurse? I find it hard to believe that a nurse wouldn’t know this.
It took an entire research center to determine that VPNs were being used to bypass age verification even though everyone knew that VPNs could bypass age verification before any restrictions were ever put in place?
Ya know, I’m starting to think that country leaders aren’t exactly the brightest folks in the world. Or, age verification is just being used as an excuse to ban encryption completely…
They aren’t. Best case, it’s silver plated.
It’s always been broken, disjointed and tribal. You can tell everyone, but many have already known this. Hell, most of humanity is like this naturally.
Almost every large organization is this way, really. Most of it is just covered up by goverment or corporate propaganda or some weird sense of duty people have to jobs or organizations.
This ain’t anything new, is my point. It’s new and shocking to you, sure. Welcome to the tribe of the disillusioned. It was always better in the past and new people are always going to make it “like it was” and “better”. (Quite literally the selling point myth of MAGA, to be honest.)
Gross. A Facebook link. This is one of the few times I would have considered another layer of jpg a good thing.
I am quite literally an expert in security and know the community quite well. Of course, there were some raised eyebrows to this, but that was about it. It’s the big company execs that are calling this the next big thing, because money. (The article basically reflects my opinion. There were some reputable and people quoted, but then there was Jeetu Patel (Cisco) going all weird with this. Frickin idiot.)
TBH, I have written off all the AI shills I knew in the industry. Sure, make a buck where you need to but goddamn, don’t turn full fucking evangelist.
Disclaimer: I am paid to be an expert in security for a day job, but I still think I can be an idiot with this stuff. Meh. It’s paid the bills for the last 20 years.
Most of this is just marketing crap from Anthropic.
Finding vulnerabilities in code and generating complex, multistep exploits with publicly available models is possible now. This biggest hurdles now is setting correct context and actually knowing what to look for. Any “guardrails” for this behavior are easily bypassed by framing the detection and exploit generation as a valid dev style question in the most difficult of situations.
They likely just trained a model without guardrails in this case.
What they are doing here is over-hyping a problem and framing it like they are the only ones with a solution. LLM security issues are more in-focus now that companies have dumped a ton of resources into building AI systems they don’t really understand.
That’s fairly bold to ask for ~6% of the total world economy as well as a sizable chunk of the world’s energy.
That’s what happens when oil burns. Specifically, when oil storage tanks burn. Burning oil makes big plumes of thick, oily smoke.
Ukraine managed to get a drone through three (or more) layers of air defense around Moscow, only to drop an FX package? Look… Even I make fun of Russian air defense, but it’s not entirely useless and it does work.
No. It doesn’t make any sense at all, per the above reason. If you send a drone to Moscow, make it through the air defense and have the opportunity to bomb a refinery, just bomb the fucking refinery. Burning oil is your FX package, dipshit.
Oil tanks are big, contain a fuck-ton of oil and burning tanks are a pain in the ass to extinguish. Heat damage alone can shut a refinery down if any high pressure tanks or lines were exposed. They would need to be inspected properly and that isn’t a small task. So yeah, a couple of destroyed tanks is kind of a bad thing. (Also, he just confirmed that is wasn’t an “empty strike”, employing “FX packages”. Shit got blowed up, dawg.)
… narratives, propaganda or whatever… Those are likely Russian videos of Russian oil tanks on fire. No narrative is needed. (I stay away from most state news sites and steer clear of most opinion-based news, blogs or videos. Getting actual information about a conflict is hard enough, thanks. My point: I don’t know the narratives and reading a blog like this just lets me know that the propaganda engine is having to chooch really fucking hard about this.)
Alas, these propaganda blogs are just made to sow doubt with large groups of idiots. It doesn’t matter if they are true or not, what matters is that their future front-line meat waves stay dumb and that .ml posters have another hyperlink to add as a “source”: These links are also for idiots to click that don’t validate any of those sources. This stuff fuels confirmation bias, consciously or not, and regardless if any of it is true.