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open Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare 103
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 128
open Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America 52
By hx
open The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III 32
By BobChip
open Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both 24
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 37
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 118
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 143
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 86
open SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover 54
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 61
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
open NASA fires up super-quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft 91
open Biz Daemon is too cool to respond to fans of his big screen work 12
open The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release 89
By MJI
open 'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive 85
By Jamesit
open BBS legend Ward Christensen logs off for last time at 78 23
open Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch 76
open Scammers in the slammer for years after ripping off Apple with fake iPhone returns 14
open US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear 62
open Bring the joy of train delays home with your very own departure board 67
open Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy 41
By Schultz

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