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    “DROP DATABASE”: What not to do after losing an IT job

    I suspect the people who interviewed these two were inexperienced in the art of interviewing. Guys like this will set off all sorts of red flags if you ask the right questions then sit back and let them talk.
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    Sony’s failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits

    Totally unrelated to the story, but why is it that every picture of the members of the Supreme Court show them sitting around like bums? I'm waiting for Clarence Thomas to bust out "So...you want to catch a dragon in my castle, eh?"
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    The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys

    Hi Bobby! We're best pals, right? Tickle my ear to open your free Kalshi account!
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    Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals

    Years ago, when I was nearly spooked out of the software development field by threats of losing my career to foreign outsourcing, I spent a few years pursuing elementary education as a safety net. I got about 2/3 of the way through the program when I chose to leave because I realized I would...
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    Report: SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits

    So, he's pre-emptively capturing the board of directors and shielding himself from accountability. He is, without a doubt, the most insecure child I've ever seen in an adult's body. Sadly, corruption and market manipulation are the main strategies for growth when you have a corrupt government...
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    Silicon Valley bets on floating AI data centers powered by ocean waves

    All of this nonsense can be traced to how research and development is done since the turn of the century. Previously, engineering companies employed researchers to do...research, develop prototypes and turn it into a product to sell. The profit from that product would help fund the next round of...
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    Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls

    This is why I rarely leave my non-smart home anymore.
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    Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial

    Well, it's not as simple as flipping a switch - there are a lot of disclosures and purchasing of assets and other stuff. It's public enough that a normal society would see it for the betrayal that it is...but we are not a normal society. We are a society that expects the worst behavior to not...
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    No longer exclusive: Microsoft agrees to let OpenAI see other cloud providers

    There was once a city that had three bridges connecting all of its boroughs. One day, a small consortium of rich folk started building one gigantic bridge that connected all of them which could be used for a rather handsome monthly toll (subscription). It seemed strange to the city folk, given...
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    Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic

    I lived through the dot-com bubble and burst. It was a massive overinvestment during a hysterical cyber gold rush ushered in by internet technology that was certain to revolutionize society. This bubble is just so stupid. It is completely driven by FOMO and incompetence around a technology that...
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    Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings: Still profitable

    Careful with your promises! When he only sells 7 of them, he'll have SpaceX order 999,993.
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    Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that.

    The silver lining in this, and all the other stupid and damaging things Trump has done, is now that his corruption is affecting the knuckleheads who support him, those of us who still find a spark of hope in such people no longer have to issue our warnings based on "what-ifs".
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    Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox 150

    Awesome, a new software analysis tool that can scan source code to find vulnerabilities. Stop calling it AI.
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    Anthropic gets $5B investment from Amazon, will use it to buy Amazon chips

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
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    CATL’s new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes

    Almost...next-generation batteries, cheaper prices, and adequate nationwide charging infrastructure will render gas cars obsolete.
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    US opens refund portal to start paying back Trump’s illegal tariffs

    The line between dumb and evil can be a fine one. While Trump's actions are often stupid, maybe they're actually evil. Perhaps this was the plan all along. We pay higher prices and corporations can get the refunds which they can use for stock buybacks and pump their stock some more. Chances are...
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    Absurdly bad study spurs headlines linking healthy diet to lung cancer

    The corruption of scientific studies is as old as science itself, but for most of history a healthy and rightfully skeptical media would challenge them. Now, everything that is published is done not for informative purposes but instead for "engagement" or as a shill for a corporate entity trying...
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    Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent

    Streaming services generating their own AI slop is the end game. With no royalties, all the subscription money is pure profit. Greed will ensure the 44% will be approaching 100% within 5 years and we will one day look back and wonder how we allowed it to happen.
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    Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

    In other words, Amazon reached a fork in the road. One path is to treat your customers well to ensure they continue to use your service into the foreseeable future. The other path is to treat your customers like criminals and lock down their devices so you can continue to shovel unwanted crap...