Tech (1)
- Pennsylvania Just Voted to Pull the Plug on Big Tech's $517M Tax Break
- Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
- WinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally paying
- Old Reddit gets login requirement; Reddit “can’t promise” site will always exist
- County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’ / Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
- Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists
- Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses
- Price hikes pushing consumers to abandon their favorite brands
- Bombshell lawsuit alleges that RAM manufacturers are colluding to drive up prices. Three companies that account for 90% of RAM revenue are being sued for anti-competitive practices. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron (the "DRAM Triarchy" controlling ~90-95% of the global DRAM market)
- Former Microsoft engineer rewrote Notepad in x86 assembly leaving only necessary functions and weighing only 2.7KB
- Microsoft plans another round of job cuts, impacting thousands of roles
- Amazon sued in Australia after Prime subscribers were made to pay more to remove ads
- Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist
- ‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering — Datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C
- Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that Facebook, Instagram addict children
- License plate cameras are scanning 20 billion vehicles a month, cities are starting to push back
- Stop Killing the Internet: inside the global movement that wants to save the open web
- New Florida Law Bans Local Net-Zero Emissions Policies
- Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: ‘Academic integrity is at risk’
- Kids online safety package clears House, drawing warnings from digital rights and tech groups
Fake History Porn (1)
- Aspiring meth addict Adolf Hitler unveils the Nazi Reichsadler (1935)
- The last surviving dinosaur ponders the extinction of his species at the end of the Mesozoic Era. (66 million BCE)
- birth of a nation became a movie renowned for pioneering an orchestra based musical score, close-up shots, fadeouts, and fully staged battle sequences (1915)
- Rage Against the Machine performs their song Bulls on Parade in Chicago, 1999
- Isis terrorist defies waterboarding torture and declares the Tawhid, the oneness of God. Guantanamo Bay, 2013
- In 1987 an african elefant, nicknamed Melchior by the local population, displayed his telepathic abilities. Seconds later, the antilope that had urinated to close to the pond, was dissolved to red mist.
- Israel gains independence, 1948.
- 1947 - Enhanced Picture of the Roswell incident autopsy. The alien, nicknamed Skippy, had died of intestinal obstruction from Hubba Bubba bubble gum given to him by farmer and first contact W.W. "Mac" Brazel.
- Earmarked parking spaces for obese barbecuers are issued, 1976.
- Backstreet Boys (1994)
- Elon Musk contacted CEOs of every social media company to have this image scrubbed. 2000
- Tiananmen Square, 1989
- Joe Biden moments after playing his first video game (2020)
- On March 16, 1798, Canada was officially established.
- 1945: Johns Manville starts an advertising campaign in Japan to promote their asbestos range of products
- Delegates pose for a photo after brokering a peace accord ending the 1932 Australian Emu War
- The live action, “Speed Racer” movie starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, and John Goodman comes out in movie theaters. (2008)
- Magneto on a smoke break while conducting military operations against the United Nations, 1968
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