David Golliher

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[David Golliher @daveglhr]

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[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@DuckDuckGo can filter AI-generated images in its searches. Go to settings (gear icon) and "All search settings". I love this. Great job ! #ai #searchengine #duckduckgo #google #bing #yahoo #aifilter

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@DuckDuckGo can filter AI-generated images in its searches. Go to settings (gear icon) and "All search settings". I love this. Great job ! #ai #searchengine #duckduckgo #google #bing #yahoo #aifilter

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay would like to win this.

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@Knights_Path Love this character design and looking forward to the game release.

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@dwgcreations Please like and follow!

[DwgCreations.com @dwgcreations]

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[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@instagram @Meta I don't need outside help. Each suggestion will be reported as spam.

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@instagram Instagram's forgot password emails are broken, specifically, they don't include the log-in directly link, or the forgot password link. The buttons that were there previously are missing. Please look into this. @Meta . Thank you. #instagram #meta

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

Looks like #Virginia is getting ready to get some MUCH needed #rain and #thunderstorms Covering the next ten days straight off and on. Probably from all the heat. Welcomed because a lot of counties have been under burn bans for a while now, and #drought is high. #weather #Smyth

[David Golliher @daveglhr]

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[David Golliher @daveglhr]

@xboxuk Would like a steam code. Reposted.

[XBOX UK @xboxuk]

START THOSE ENGINES, JAPAN AWAITS 🌸🏎️

To celebrate the upcoming release of Forza Horizon 6, we're giving away 6 Premium Edition digital codes of the game. For your chance to win, follow @XboxUK AND:

💚 Comment for an Xbox Code
🔁 Repost for a Steam Code

Winners will be chosen on Friday the 15th of May

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Walmart is selling you an unprofitable TV that watches everything you do and reports it back to their $6.4 billion advertising machine.

And the TV literally won't turn on until you give them permission.

This is one of the most sophisticated consumer surveillance operations in history and 150 million people walk into their stores every single week with no idea it's happening.

Here's the full story:

In December 2024, Walmart bought Vizio for $2.3 billion. Everyone assumed it was about selling more TVs.

But it had nothing to do with TVs.

Vizio's TV hardware business was actually LOSING money, posting a $6.7 million loss in its final quarter as an independent company. The advertising division made $115.8 million in profit that same quarter.

Walmart bought 19 million living rooms - not a TV company.

In March 2026, Walmart flipped the switch.

Every new Vizio TV now requires a mandatory Walmart account before you can access any smart features. No account, no streaming apps.

Without signing in, your TV is useless.

The moment you create that account, something called Automatic Content Recognition activates.

ACR runs silently in the background, taking screenshots of everything displayed on your screen and comparing them against a database to identify exactly what you're watching, second by second, across 700 TV networks and over 100 streaming apps.

It knows what you watched, when you watched it, how long you watched it, and what you did afterward.

Now here's the part that makes this genuinely unprecedented in the history of retail:

Walmart ALREADY knows what 150 million Americans buy every week.

They know your grocery habits, your clothing preferences, your pharmacy purchases, your financial behavior through Walmart Pay, and your location data from the app. But what they couldn't see was the 4 to 6 hours a day Americans spend staring at their television screens.

By connecting your Walmart account to your Vizio TV, they've closed that loop.

They can now prove that you saw a 30 second ad for gardening soil Sunday night and bought that exact brand at Walmart Monday morning. L'Oréal is already signed on as a launch partner for this kind of targeting.

The math on this is just insane:

Walmart Connect, their advertising arm, generated $6.4 billion last year with 46% year-over-year growth. Advertising runs at 70 to 90% profit margins compared to traditional retail's 3 to 4%.

Their CFO admitted that ads and membership fees already account for one-third of Walmart's total operating income. The advertising business is now more important to Walmart's bottom line than entire product categories in their stores.

And they're just getting started.

Analysts calculated that Walmart's ad revenue currently represents only 1% of total sales. Amazon's ad business runs at 8% of sales.

The gap between where Walmart is and where Amazon is represents roughly $50 billion in untapped advertising revenue. The Vizio deal is the bridge to get there.

This is WHY they're selling certain TVs at a loss.

When you break down the $2.3 billion acquisition across 19 million households, Walmart paid $121 per living room.

A lifetime of behavioral viewing data from a household that also shops at Walmart is worth infinitely more than that.

The cheap TV is a trojan horse.

Vizio has already been fined $2.2 million by the FTC for secretly collecting viewing data on 11 million TVs without consent. The Texas Attorney General sued them for "spying on Texans." Walmart bought them anyway and made the surveillance MANDATORY.

The company that built its empire promising everyday low prices is becoming the most powerful advertising platform in the world, and the TV in your living room is the entry point.

What do you think?

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

The Google Threat Intelligence Group has detected the first known instance of a threat actor using an AI-developed zero-day exploit in the wild. While the attackers planned a wide-scale strike, our proactive counter-discovery may have prevented that from happening. This finding is part of our new report on AI-powered threats.

[Cyber Security News @The_Cyber_News]

⚠️ BitUnlocker Attack on Windows 11 Allows Access to Encrypted Disks in 5 Minutes

Source: https://t.co/dq8KjmuHtP

A new tool, BitUnlocker, reveals a practical downgrade attack against Microsoft's BitLocker encryption, allowing attackers with physical access to decrypt protected volumes on patched Windows 11 machines in under 5 minutes by exploiting a crucial gap between patching and certificate revocation.

The attack is rooted in CVE-2025-48804, one of four critical zero-day vulnerabilities. Systems that have completed the KB5025885 migration, moving the boot manager signature to the newer Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate, are also protected against this downgrade path.

#cybersecuritynews #Windows11

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

A new VPN leak that allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel has recently been discovered by @cybaqkebm

Read more here: https://t.co/K9bxtiGHbw

[NZXT @NZXT]

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