Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI by Let's Data Science

Atlassian will begin collecting customer metadata and in-app content from Jira, Confluence, and other cloud products by default on August 17, 2026, to train its AI offerings including Rovo and Rovo Dev

Well if you don’t have your data, the company that has it, can make changes like this anytime they want. And they have a strong motivation to do so.

And so they did.

Flags fly to honour Finland's internally displaced

Monday marks Evacuees' Flag Day (Evakkojen liputuspäivä), which honours Finns who had to flee their homes during wartime, either temporarily or permanently.

Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back by Caiwei Chen

Earlier this month a GitHub project called Colleague Skill, which claimed workers could use it to “distill” their colleagues’ skills and personality traits and replicate them with an AI agent, went viral on Chinese social media. Though the project was created as a spoof, it struck a nerve among tech workers, a number of whom told MIT Technology Review that their bosses are encouraging them to document their workflows in order to automate specific tasks and processes using AI agent tools like OpenClaw or Claude Code.

It felt creepy reading this, as if who a person is, could be written down in some markdown docs in a folder.

We are more, so much more than these things.

The RAM shortage could last years by Terrence O'Brien

According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030.

That’s sad.