Windows may install malware, but Microsoft promises the next Xbox will be super expensive and won't have any exclusives, so it all balances out in the end.

Its insane to me how the US thinks its OK to tax lottery winnings like this and yet actual they dont think its OK to figure out how to tax actual billionaires.

GenA slang is so nonsensical. Chopping something invariably makes it better. So instead let's use it to mean its worse.

If youre a doctor or dentist or simmilar professional in 2025 and don't allow your patients to manage their own appointments online, lets be frank - you're straight up flushing money down the toilet. These systems are cheap - even free - to deploy. Get with the times.

Politics is not team sports. Good policy is good policy regardless of the source. Please for the love of all holy, teach your children this. The goal of politics is not supposed to be to "beat the other team no matter what", its supposed to be to improve quality of life for you and your neighbors.

Why does @cbcgem.bsky.social require me to log into it just to watch live TV that I pay for with my tax dollars?

If the Liberals were smart they would have pre-created an AI chatbot where you could go and ask questions about the budget. They could have even used it to showcase Cohere

If I was still a bachelor I am quite sure that my diet would consist entirely of costco rotisserie chickens, potatoes, rice, Dominos pizza, and a smattering of random fruit.

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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

One of the amazing side-effects of the AI revolution is that we are FINALLY going back to sharing information by text instead of the needless time-sucking YouTube videos for every topic. This is something I very much appreciate.

"Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We're working on resolving it," Perplexity CEO" - false, the root cause is a poor architecture that doesn't have multi-region fails very sufficiently tested.

Interesting facts about the louvre heist: "The robbery took between six to seven minutes and was carried out by four people who were unarmed but who threatened the guards with angle grinders, the Paris prosecutor has said." So much for the"only criminals will have guns" arguments on gun control

The illusion that Roblox is "free" is one of the greatest scams ever pulled on man. My kid spends more on Roblox a month than I spend on Gamepass Ultimate... its nuts

Its funny how you can get AI to generate a photo realistic movie from scratch and yet I am struggling for an hour with it to just make a simple graphic for a powerpoint.

The GMail widget on Android is abhorrent - tons of wasted white space, lack of configuration, other issues - and hasn't been updated in many many years. Frustrating.

Something has changed in GMail. Almost every email I received the past week has gone to spam. Be aware, check your spam bucket for important emails.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

PortSec Cyber Social Meetup! 📅 Date: Oct 2nd, 2025 ⏰ Time: 7pm 📍 Location: Picaroon's Saint John #SaintJohnMeetup #Cybersecurity #ProfessionalNetworking #CybersecurityCommunity

It's October, so that means it's Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Please be aware of cybersecurity. Thank you.

"We're destroying words—scores of them, hundreds of them, every day... the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it" www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Shot in the dark - does anyone know what IP reputation service Comcast / XFinity Xfi uses for their "Safebrowse" service? I know it is outsourced to a third party provider, but I can not figure out from my research exactly what provider. I just need to figure out who exactly to report this issue to

Canadian fun: Try to get an AI to draw any picture showing someone pouring milk from a bag.

Hot take: ETFs are the root problem causing CEO to worker pay disparity. Pick any random Fortune 5000 company and 60%+ of the shares are going to be institutionally held. Individual shareholders have zero voice. We've collectively given it up to Blackrock and Vanguard in exchange for easy returns.

"If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine." - Jim Barksdale (CEO of Netscape)

For his last few months in CBS Colbert should go back into his right-wing character from The Colbert Report once a week. Bring out the red white and blue set, the eagle, everything. It would be so great...

Someone needs to make a hotel search app like Trivago/Hotels.com that ALSO lets you input corporate codes when you search.

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I find it weird that people are painting Mamdani as an extreme outsider. The US govt. has taken ownership positions in major US companies like Intel (and soon TikTok). Mamdani wants to open a city-run grocery store to sell cheap groceries. And you're telling me the second is a radical socialist.

This whole story is so wacky. If the US wants to spend their taxpayers money to import and house a bunch of diseased birds and put THEIR food supply at risk... who cares? Let them take that risk, not our problem. "Save" the birds...

Can I just say how ridiculous it is that neither Windows 11 nor OSX seem to be able to remember window positions for multi-monitor setups that change? It SHOULD NOT BE HARD GUYS.

Health Canada put out a safety alert about acetaminophen. recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-rec... #Canada #health

TikTok’s US operations are changing hands and will be retraining the algo on US-only data. No word yet on whether a new app is needed. Meanwhile, @skylight.social — the TikTok of the atmosphere — is seeing massive growth this week. 🔗 skylight.social

You know an open source software is good when the website design hasnt recieved any design update since 2003, but the github repo is updated every couple weeks

🚨🚨🚨 Google released a report on "Brickstorm" this morning — a next-level, suspected China-linked campaign targeting U.S. firms. Ultra-stealthy, 400+ day dwell times, focus on stealing IP, finding zero-days, and focused on long-term cyberespionage. cyberscoop.com/chinese-cybe...

We are releasing details on BRICKSTORM malware activity, a China-based threat hitting US tech to potentially target downstream customers and hunt for data on vulnerabilities in products. This actor is stealthy, and we've provided a tool to hunt for them. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

In 2025 its becoming inexcusable for all laptops to not (a) have USB-PD charging, and (b) Not have USB-C ports on BOTH sides. Needs to become the norm. This is one of the only things I dislike about my Asus.

I don't get why these protests aren't happening at Disneyland. Depriving them if revenue is going to be far more effective than protesting at the HQ

I honestly don't have any issues with a 100K fee for an H1-B and think Canada should consider similar moves. If you REALLY NEED to bring in that labour, it's a small price that the company should easily pay. If you can't afford that but still want to bring in labour, then you need to reevaluate

Have never seen Canadians react to a US Ambassador like they do Pete Hoekstra. Usually most people would not even know who the US Ambassador was if you asked them, as opposed to now. This guy is just constantly saying all the wrong things, and doesn't seem to understand Canada at all.

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Oracle buying TikTok is like US Steel buying Tesla.

what up chat im on oracletok and today we're talking about everyone's favorite licensing model. mine is per viewer-device-stream-minute

Black student found hanging from a tree in Mississippi

Breaking, new, by me: Self-replicating "Shai-Hulud" worm hits 180+ Software Packages At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]