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- 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
- Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists
- 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.
- 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)
- Price hikes pushing consumers to abandon their favorite brands
- Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that Facebook, Instagram addict children
- New Florida Law Bans Local Net-Zero Emissions Policies
- Pennsylvania Just Voted to Pull the Plug on Big Tech's $517M Tax Break
- T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills
- Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: ‘Academic integrity is at risk’
- Stop Killing the Internet: inside the global movement that wants to save the open web
- Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV shows you bought on PlayStation, because you don't really own your digital purchases
- RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply
- US lawsuit accuses Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron of worsening the RAM crisis by fixing memory prices and supply
- New BMW iX5 Blows Competition Out With 460 kW Charging, 435 Miles Of Range
- TIDAL to automatically tag AI-generated music and block it from earning royalties
- Ford rehires more than 300 veteran human engineers after it says AI failed to deliver the same level of expertise
- Feds Might Flip the Script on Right to Repair Vehicle Emissions Systems
- Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs
- DRAM Triarchy Hit with Class-Action Lawsuit Alleging Memory Price-fixing and Cartel Behavior
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- 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)
- Isis terrorist defies waterboarding torture and declares the Tawhid, the oneness of God. Guantanamo Bay, 2013
- 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)
- Israel gains independence, 1948.
- 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.
- 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
- Van halen sings the Panamanian national anthem [1984]