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Sweden is taking an unconventional approach to cybercrime. The country's police authority reports criminals pocketed nearly five hundred eighty million US dollars in scams last year, disproportionately targeting elderly citizens. Their solution? A celebrity-backed national campaign encouraging people to simply hang up, ignore, and yes, be outright rude to suspicious callers.
Shifting to the open-source world, Zig programming language creator Andrew Kelley is drawing a hard line on two fronts. In a recent interview, Kelley explained why he's formally banned AI-generated code contributions, arguing automated submissions erode both code quality and the human relationships that hold open-source communities together. He's also moved the entire project off GitHub to Codeberg, citing repeated platform failures and a growing sense that GitHub's incentives no longer align with independent developer communities.
And AT&T is making a quiet but significant bet on automation. The telecom giant is actively reducing its workforce and cutting electricity consumption as it works to consolidate a sprawling legacy infrastructure. The pitch to Wall Street is straightforward: do more with less. The harder question, of course, is what fewer employees and increased machine decision-making means for the millions of customers depending on that network every day.
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