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Comment When did doomscrolling first become a thing ? (Score 1) 72

“It countered the days worth of doom scrolling!” and this association with politics in a pre-COVID context:

Right Twitter. I need some joyful book recommendations please. Heart-warming page-turners to get me through the nighttime feeding hours and distract from endless social media/political doom scrolling.”

Submission + - The Perpetual Threat model of doing Business (theregister.com)

Mirnotoriety writes: The Perpetual Threat model is the ultimate strategy for securing endless war-bucks from a terrified government with an open checkbook. By funding the think tanks that manufacture the panic, defense conglomerates ensure politicians stay scared enough to keep funneling taxpayer billions into weapons for the next endless bogeyman. In this cynical ecosystem, global peace is a financial disaster, and fear is the highest-yielding asset on the market.

Comment Microsoft square-root :o (Score 1) 31

* More accurate square-root results. "Fixed rare cases where a calculation that should equal zero (like sqrt(2.25) — 1.5) returned a tiny leftover value instead...."

* "Correct sun and moon icons during midnight sun — Fixed an icon that wrongly showed a moon during all-day daylight in polar regions... "

With an honorable mention of the Microsoft Encarta edition where the globe revolved the wrong way.

Comment Screentime is rotting children's brains (Score 2) 50

> Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this week, three researchers spent much of the session explaining that concern and evidence are not quite the same thing.

It is patently obvious that kids raised on screens are disadvantaged. At that stage they should be engaged in play, socializing and exploring the physical world. With their faces buried in a screen they get none of that. One doesn't need a professionalship to know this.

Comment The EU and the three-card monte (Score 1) 223

The Brussels bureaucrats, together with the Whitehall mandarins, have done everything in their power to sabotage the UK economy, using the damage as a pretext to rejoin the EU. Depending on the day, the EU is run by either the European Commission, the European Parliament, or the Council of Ministers. This institutional 'three-card monte' is designed to sabotage any real say the voters have in running the EU.

Comment OpenAI criticism is Chinese says OpenAI report (Score 1) 86

Lake Tahoe’s major energy source is being diverted to power AI data centers

“The shift comes as Northern Nevada becomes a major data center hub, with companies like Google, Apple(pictured) and Microsoft building or planning large facilities near the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno”

Comment A fool and his tokens are soon parted (Score 1) 26

We’ve officially reached the point where the two biggest hype cycles of the decade are merging into a Kaiju of pure financial chaos, and the results are going to be spectacular to watch from a safe distance.

We are actively building a playground where autonomous bots will wash-trade with other autonomous bots, responding to AI-generated news feeds, all while the actual humans sit back and wonder where their principal went.

This isn't financial evolution. It’s just optimizing the velocity at which fools and their tokens are parted.

Comment Microsoft Office Open (OOXML) format (Score 5, Insightful) 80

M$ office still doesn't implement "OOXML" to specification (it's impossible for anyone else but m$ anyway - for example it has stuff like; autoSpaceLikeWord95 which says to use word 95 spacing, but does not document the spacing rules).

The format m$ office uses is Microsoft Office XML (MOX), which is proprietary and is changed every time libreoffice goes and reverse engineers the latest sabotage (for example, libreoffice supports parsing XML-encoded C struct, which is needed to support the typical m$ development practice of dumping the memory of the data structure that encodes the data into the file).

"OOXML" is the result of m$ grabbing their internal documentation (that they don't follow anyway), removing the important information and then dumping the remaining over 6000 pages and calling it a "standard" and then got ECMA to rubber stamp it as a "standard" (even though something impossible to implement even after following 6000 pages is not a standard and will never be).

M$ definitely didn't corrupt the voting process by instructing their serfs to vote yes in exchange for "marketing contribution" and "extra support in the form av Microsoft resources"; reference

Submission + - HP: Hackers Are Turning Legitimate Remote Access Tools Into Backdoors (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: HP is warning that hackers are increasingly abusing legitimate remote access tools such as LogMeIn and ScreenConnect instead of relying solely on traditional malware. According to the companyâ(TM)s latest Wolf Security Threat Insights Report, attackers have used tax-themed phishing emails, fake software updates, and bogus app downloads to trick users into installing authentic remote access software that ultimately gives cybercriminals persistent control over their PCs. Because the software is legitimate and digitally signed, the activity can blend in with normal IT operations and avoid raising suspicion.

The report also highlights a growing number of attacks involving fake cryptocurrency wallet recovery tools, AI-assisted âoevibe-codedâ malware, and ClickFix campaigns that disguise malware as audio files behind realistic CAPTCHA prompts. HP says email remains the top malware delivery method, accounting for 57 percent of threats observed during the first quarter of 2026. The company argues that modern attackers are increasingly hiding behind trusted software, familiar workflows, and convincing social engineering rather than obviously malicious programs. What do you think about attackers abusing legitimate tools instead of creating their own malware? Is user education enough, or do operating systems need stronger protections against this sort of abuse?

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