In a LinkedIn post republished on his blog, engineer Bryan Cantrill criticizes the growing use of LLMs to write LinkedIn content, arguing the results are stylistically obvious and often poor quality. He points to telltale patterns like excessive emojis, choppy paragraphs, and 'not just...but also' phrasing as giveaways of AI authorship. Cantrill argues LinkedIn's own AI rewrite prompts encourage this behavior, worsening the platform's content quality.
bcantrill.dtrace.org
· 2026-09-06
AI-assisted incident response systems, sometimes called 'AI SREs,' can now detect alerts, diagnose root causes, and apply fixes without human intervention. A former LinkedIn SRE warns that as these tools absorb routine incident handling, engineers get fewer chances to build intuition about how their systems actually fail.
sylvainkalache.com
· 2026-09-05
A jobseeker was contacted on LinkedIn by someone posing as a recruiter and asked to complete an interview process that involved downloading a document. The file was actually malicious software, and within hours the attackers used it to drain £18,000 from his cryptocurrency accounts before disappearing.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-03
Two web tools, the LLM cliché highlighter and Slop Tells, scan text for stock phrases and stylistic quirks associated with AI-generated writing, such as certain idioms and sentence patterns that large language models tend to overuse. The tools aim to help writers identify and remove language that might make their work seem machine-generated, even when it isn't.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-03
Conversational AI features are letting employees speak their thoughts aloud rather than type and heavily edit emails, reports, and presentations. This shift could reduce time spent perfecting formal, buttoned-up business language in favor of a more natural, spoken tone in workplace writing.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-03
Microsoft is restructuring its financial reporting from three business segments into two: Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer. As part of the overhaul, the company will for the first time disclose Azure's actual quarterly revenue figures rather than just year-over-year growth percentages, though the metric will now exclude GitHub cloud, Security Copilot, and Healthcare and Life Sciences cloud revenues.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-03
LinkedIn introduced a feature letting users flag posts they suspect are low-quality AI-generated content, and more than a million people used it within the first two weeks. Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said member views of flagged AI content have dropped 40% since the tool launched, though he acknowledged more work remains.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-08-27
A new round of job cuts hit major tech firms including Apple, TikTok, LinkedIn and Netflix in August 2026, continuing a year of workforce reductions across the industry. Total layoffs for 2026 have already exceeded the full-year figure for 2025.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-24
LinkedIn revealed that its feedback button letting users flag suspected AI-generated posts has been used more than a million times since debuting July 30. The company says combining these reports with updated detection systems has reduced views of flagged 'AI slop' content by 40% in recent weeks, and it now notifies authors when their posts draw such flags.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-23
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