Maybe Comcast should raise their bullshit fees again to make up the loss. Seems to be their "go to" move to boost their earnings. I mean, what can go wrong?

I imagine the conversation going more like:

Sony Engineering Underling: "RAM is going to cost 3 times more for the PS6 because Open AI bought up all of the supply for the next 18 months."

"Sony CEO: Shit... raise the price on the PS6 by $300!"

Microsoft Engineering Underling: "RAM is going to cost 3 times more for the XBox WhateverWeWereGonnaCallIt because Open AI bought up all of the supply for the next 18 months."

Microsoft CEO: "Meh, who cares. We want everyone using Azure anyway. Cancel the new XBox WhateverWeWereGonnaCallIt and promote XBox Live Ultra Platinum 9000 game streaming instead!"

Actually, more layoffs and Microsoft game price hikes would probably help.

It would get a lot more game developers out of these massive corporate run megastudios that can't seem to be able to produce a game on schedule anymore, and into smaller and more nimble startup companies who have a financial incentive to release something on time.

I hope that they announce the new kernel maintainer with a ritual burning of a Microsoft Surface laptop with Copilot AI!

Once we see the white smoke from the Lithium fire, only then will be know that the reign of the new leader of open source has begun!

I'd imagine that you would need to cash out VERY quickly while stocking up on canned goods and ammo and running into your doomsday bunker. Preferably on some tropical island far from China or the US.

Besides, a Doomsday Clock is such a boomer way to predicting when World War 3 will start. All the cool kids are taking bets on Polymarket on when World War 3 is starting instead!

Right now, they're only predicting an 8% chance of a military conflict between the US and China this year. Those are good odds if you're someone who thinks that we're all getting nuked soon!

I use an Airtag for it's "unofficial" secondary use as a pet tracker, for which it is surprisingly effective in my neighborhood because seemingly everyone has an iPhone. It's not perfect, but it's still far lighter than a GPS tracking collar and has much better battery life. While the extra range and louder speaker are super useful to me, I'm a bit worried what these new "industry first privacy protections" are. Is it going to realize what it's being used for and decide to randomly disable itself because I'm "violating" the terms of service? Or annoy both my pet and my neighbors with random chirping noises in some weird attempt to protect my neighbors privacy?

You would think that the billionaires would be smart enough not to build their bunkers on an island that will likely disappear over the next 50 years due to sea level rise.

It seems like the Neom project has been scaled back a few times at this point.

I'm wondering what's left at this point? A modest sized building and a port?

It's not like PC gamers can afford to upgrade their hardware to play the new titles anyway. Thanks to Rampopolypse, memory and storage upgrades cost over twice as much as they did a year ago.

The problem with that logic is that any given $15 a month streaming service in 2026 only has about 1/4 of the content that you want to watch.

In order to be able to watch all of the shows that I like to watch, I'd need:

Apple TV+
Disney+ and Hulu
Netflix
Amazon Prime
Paramount+
Peacock
and HBO Max (or whatever it called now)

So, that's 7 different premium streaming services, all charging around $15 a month each if you want to watch them without ads.

Suddenly, piracy looks like the easier option. One site, ALL of the content. And it's "free", minus the cost of a VPN service that doesn't suck.

I too used to believe that pirating content was wrong... back when I could order almost any movie or TV show from Netflix and have the DVD of it delivered to me the next day.

Now that all of the good TV shows and movies are buried behind 7 different premium streaming services that all cost around $15 a month to subscribe to if you want to watch them without ads... well... let's just say that my feelings about pirating content and moderated somewhat.

The trick for this seems to be having a shared inbox on a 3rd party e-mail forwarding service that more than one person knows the password for. That way, renewal and transfer notices go out to multiple people and (hopefully) someone still working for the company will notice and renew it before a bad actor poaches the domain.

Also, please don't be stupid and make the owner's e-mail address something like admin@domain.com where domain.com is the domain being renewed. That's a surefire way of getting yourself locked out of your accounts if the domain gets compromised.

I hope that they release the blueprints for the Apple Car. I was always curious what that was going to look like before they canceled it.

At least the Slashdot moderators waited 3 days before reposting it this time. I've been recent posts where there were two identical stories posted right next to each other by different moderators.