Today we're announcing LevelUp: a free, four-week training program that takes people with no prior experience and prepares them to work as fiber technicians on data center construction sites across the US.
We built this program with CBRE because the fiber technician field, and the broader construction industry, is facing a nationwide shortage at a time when data center demand is higher than ever.
How it works:
🔧 Classroom instruction, hands-on labs + team activities covering transferable technical skills
🎓 Graduates have the opportunity to work at Meta's US construction sites through our contractor network
🤝 Open to everyone from recent high school grads to mid-career professionals
Since 2010, Meta's data center projects have supported 30,000+ skilled trade jobs during construction + 5,000+ permanent operational roles. LevelUp is about building the pipeline to keep that going.
Learn more: https://t.co/9XluD5IHbz
basically: anthropic sneakily turned down how hard claude thinks before editing code, changed the default from "high" to "medium" effort, and hid the reasoning from session logs. all without telling users.
an amd director had 7k sessions of telemetry to prove the degradation was real and measurable (not just vibes). anthropic admitted to the changes. there's a workaround (use "/effort max"). the uncomfortable part is most users had no data to notice it happened at all.
FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀
Our use of C and Assembly in FFmpeg has been an unacceptable violation of safety.
FFmpeg will be running 10x slower - but we're doing it for your safety.
All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later.
Just watched that ColdFusion video on OpenClaw and I'm scratching my head.
OpenClaw is actually pretty useful, can be setup to run open-source models right on your own machine, keeps your data private (no cloud companies selling it), and yeah, it can be fully air-gapped if you set it up that way with local LLMs.
Why paint something this practical and open-source project as bad?
Kinda skeptical of the angle here.
https://t.co/lMCkT5E0in
Those folks are “rich” because they’ve lived the American dream to its fullest. They started with nothing, built massive enterprises that created tons of jobs (& generated taxes), and propelled the country to the top position in tech worldwide.
Whether they’re “rich” or “poor” won’t make the rest of the country richer or poorer. In fact it’s more likely to make others richer. They’re not “taking money away from poor people”; they’ve created incredible value out of thin air.
You’re deflecting and selling false virtue to people in despair because you have no real solutions.