...but we got there, Google is finally doing what ask.com was doing in the 2000's.

Mob justice is often applied when they go in for this crime. Much like a death penalty.

Where is DOGE that one time you need 'em?

Rules for thee, but not for me

From this /. thread, it's the Windows update that install the LG software, probably retrieves a blob from LG which deploys the advert mill. Don't look after Windows myself, and not seen ads on my own machines as they're all Debian or Xubuntu.

Why employ geologists when your oil fields are dry?

If you have some capital and your core business is shrinking, you're going to try and invest in something that you speculate will have a ROI later. In this case, they're trying to get ahead of the AI demand and be a infrastructure provider.

At least Meta are admitting their compute isn't in demand

So let me understand this.

The president is selling access to the problems he creates.

There's now a bigger incentive to create more problems just to sell more access.

The thing about computers is they can use machine learning until they generate randomness algorithms that work.

No surprise that people avoid shops like B&M.

Eventually the economics will work out that there wasn't a saving to be made. The security on the door can't do much to detain, they can tell the police that there's a sighting, but beyond that, they're mostly powerless. You can see how systems like the creep in when they don't have much power to detain.

Sounds like they just got a patent for a 90s-era PDA

A mixture of D, but I reckon VPN providers bundle an extension that obscures the UA. They probably clicked 'yes' to all installer questions whilst trying to get to the hub due to region locks.

Word has never been as good as wordperfect, word mixes styles and formatting in a terrible way.

Word 2000/Xp didn't even have interchangeable formats, it was terrible yet the marketing pushed it forward and bundled it with OEMs, else they would lose their licence. They effectively strangled the market, which is pretty effective marketing.

Have macro viruses ever been solved? Can't say personally.

Word, or any other MS Office product is a hard no from me, all marketing and no product. All fur coat and no knickers.

Good software or good marketing?

E.g. how is word an industry standard?

Linux is pretty good when it comes to open/save dialogs. Just drag the file from an existing file browser onto the save dialogs and it takes you there. So much better and been around since Amiga era