Click farming.

The news outlets are looking for more engagement, and we are giving it to them.

He has been working with Microsoft. There is a history of poor communication, lackluster responses, and a decision not to pay out a bug bounty.

Microsoft stopped responding to him privately, so he forced their hand publicly.

Sometimes community members can be ...over enthusiastic... and hard to deal with. They think that whatever they have found should be your top priority, and it just is not. It is a balancing act to keep them on your side. Somebody failed at that with him.

"What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some businesses you just can't reach. So you get what we had here this week, which is the way they wants it... well, they gets it. I don't like it any more than you do."

He made them a LOT of money. They want more of it.

it's spin. "Google Pledge To Yank Search If Schools Block AI" is a horribly biased spin on the actual situation.

The actual situation is that the school districts wants to block all student access to Google AI. Google search is now AI based. If you block Google AI, you have blocked Google search. If you leave student access to Google search, they can use the AI through the search interface.

Google could certainly maintain the non-AI based search function in parallel, but they don't want to. So we have to pick a different search engine to use if we don't want to use their AI for searches.

In the future, all search engines may be AI based, but for now we can just choose not to use Google search..

but... it's social .

Don't you want to share with strangers? Someone might "like" it.

The holiday shopping season is almost upon us. Nintendo is doing their annual crackdown. They want to ensure that the people buy from Nintendo, not buy an emulator box and download ROMs.

Profit must be protected.

Chainalysis provides blockchain analysis tools to trace cryptocurrency transactions and investigate crimes such as fraud, ransomware, and money laundering.

I can see why certain people would want them taken out. Just this week there were a few Billion reasons...

Because your parents finally got tired of supporting you and kicked your lazy ass out of their house.

"announces" "unveiled" "designed to"

These words are doing some (pardon the pun) heavy lifting here. I will hold my applause until you demonstrate that it does what you say it will.

The competition (who's name we shall not speak) has a record breaking history of putting things in orbit successfully -almost daily.

I will cheer for BO when they send the first one of these new rockets around the moon, or into GEO. Until then, it's just a marketing promise.

It is cheaper to create fresh new plastic from seed stock than to recycle existing plastics.

If that changes, maybe we will stop dumping plastics into the environment. If that changes by a lot, maybe we will look into recovering the plastics already dumped. There is a lot of plastic that would be cheaper to recover than the microplastics in the ocean.

The economics are against making things better.

Answer: EVERYWHERE

I like pi

I just can't bring myself to sign up for a loyalty program at a restaurant.

If I eat somewhere often enough for something like that to benefit me, I am known on sight by the host, servers, manager, and maybe the chef. If not, then what is the point of giving out my personal details to strangers? I like personal service. Otherwise, just take my money and leave me alone.

If I need an app or a loyalty program to eat and drink, I will go somewhere else.

I do use the loyalty programs at chain shops tho -as long as I can just type in a phone number: 314-159-2653 works almost everywhere.

This is why smart businesses donate to both sides in an election. You want whomever wins to owe you.

If you are on the list of contributors to their campaign, they will take your call. If you only funded their opponent... it's gonna cost you more to get what you want. They may have even made it a campaign issue to be against you.

Best argument for a Billionaire tax .