Thursday, July 24
Daily News Stuff 24 July 2025
Test Your Backups Edition
Test Your Backups Edition
Top Story
- The US government has ordered that all AIs competing for government contracts must be viewpoint neutral - that is, abandoning the DEI bullshit that infests all AI models. (Tech Crunch)
The DEI crowd is big mad:As Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist, CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, and former U.S. science envoy for AI, put it, "Anything [the Trump administration doesn't] like is immediately tossed into this pejorative pile of woke."
Stop being woke then.Mark Lemley, a law professor at Stanford University, told TechCrunch the executive order is "clearly intended as viewpoint discrimination, since [the government] just signed a contract with Grok, aka 'MechaHitler.'"
Big mad.
Tech News
- If you're using the NPM package Stylus, well, now you're not. (Bleeping Computer)
NPM took it down.
Apparently one of the maintainers also published a proof-of-concept security vulnerability, and that led to Stylus being taken down without warning.
And that - because this is how NPM works - means that no application that relies on Stylus directly or indirectly can be built.
Unless you go fetch it from GitHub. That still works.
- Over 400 organisations including the Department of Energy have been breached while waiting for a Microsoft Sharepoint patch. (The Register)
Oops.
Still Not Tech News
At this point is quicker to list the people that VShojo hasn't screwed over.
Still not a peep out of the senior management. It looks like they ran out of money a year ago and have been shuffling deckchairs ever since.
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"this is how NPM works"
At times like this I am reminded of Ted Dziuba's timeless wisdom that Node is cancer.
At times like this I am reminded of Ted Dziuba's timeless wisdom that Node is cancer.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, July 25 2025 02:18 AM (VuQQ5)
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