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open If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? 107
open Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels' 29
By Manolo
open How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland 69
By Blerpo
open AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments 47
open As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life 83
open UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience 127
open Composer for worst Tomb Raider games jailed over COVID-19 loan fraud 18
open Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 63
open Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow 37
By itskdog
open Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame 79
open Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare 105
open 'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?' 11
open Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists 118
open Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America 53
open The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III 32
By BobChip
open Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both 25
open Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims 129
open Dentists sue ex-contractor for holding web domains hostage in biz fight 9
By rcxb
open ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it 35
open Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234 88
open Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims 115
open From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner 25
By Meph
open God didn't have a plan for Gelsinger at Intel. Maybe there is one for his new gig, Gloo 22
open Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank 17
open Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom 25
open As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal 96
open Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go 79
By Ignazio
open Cybercrims now licking stamps and sending extortion demands in snail mail 18
open 100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk 74
open Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses 17
open As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick 144
By FeRDNYC
open The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux 39
open Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up 113
open Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment 95
open In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy 84
open SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover 50
open Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky 60
open LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs 58
open Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did 116
By Not Yb
open The winner of last year's Windows Ugly Sweater is ... 14
open You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you 42
open Judge again cans Musk's record-setting $56B Tesla package 39
open Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next 205
open Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled 54
open AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church 74
open BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 115
open Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware 34
By Terry 6
open Tesla Cybertruck, a paragon of reliability, recalled again 53
open Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility 61
open Intel: Our finances are in the toilet, we're laying off 15K, but the free coffee is back! 98

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