“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.”

Who know the product was full of holes!

Never mind read - the can't even articulate. There are numerous videos online where college lever students on campus are asked the simplest questions and respond with the vocal level of a ten year old.

* 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.

> 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.

Bitcoin: A modern day 3-card Monte

“In 2013, thousands of people became convinced they had to get in on bitcoin before it changed the flows of capital around the world. Like most schemes of dubious merit, the sexy intrigue of incalculable calculus combined with no central oversight suckered them in.”

Bitcoin investors, burning more in the cost of electricity (150-210 TWh annually) to generate an electronic token with no connection to the real economy.
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agentic, sovereign, tokenized, quantum-proof, decentralized, orchestrated and cloud/blockchain hybrid.

Of course everything people creates goes back to the mothership. As the core AI cannot create original material. “The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.”

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.

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”

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.

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

> I read it as sassy wordplay.

Yea, it's typical of a Register headline. Remember when "The Register" was cool and hadn't yet sold out. Any real criticism of corporate interests gets moderated into invisibility. Stuck in the mod queue for days.