Excuses are monuments to nothing, and build bridges to nowhere. Those who use these tools of incompetence are fools, fools, fools, and masters of nothing. Excuses. Comcast whined to the FCC last week about it being too hard to list its broadband fees to customers. They can keep raising fees and charging for hidden things,...
The Federal Trade Commission moved to block Microsoft’s acquisition of video game maker Activision. The deal would have been worthing a record breaking $69 billion. The FTC blocked the merger after the UK opposed the deal, and the EU approving it. The FTC said the deal would “substantially lessen competition” in the video game industry....
That’s meta verse with two words. As promised, Apple showcased the Vision Pro AR/VR headset at this week’s Worldwide Developer Conference. It’s everything we expected in a newly released Apple product. The Vision Pro headset is priced at $3,499. It’s not priced, nor designed for regular human consumption. The headset is specifically designed for software...
It doesn’t get any clearer than that. Yesterday, Yintao Yu, a former ByteDance executive, alleged the company gave Chinese Communist Party members access to Hong Kong activists’ TikTok data. The allegations were part of a US court filing. The filing reports users who uploaded “protest-related content” were identified and monitored. According to Mr. Yu, ByteDance/TikTok...
Sextortion isn’t a new phenomenon. For decades, criminals have threatened people (mostly women) with exposure over sexual compromising or explicit photos of themselves online. Sextortion could involves payments in money or more photos of the victim. Sometimes, the images possessed by these criminals are real, other times they could be fake when the mere threat...
It’s been a long while since I’ve enthusiastically written about Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. The iPhone has become stale with incrementally updates and they still haven’t gotten rid of the notch. MacBook Pro specs get ever more impressive, but the operating systems becomes more and more tightly restrained. The Apple Watch lasts longer and is...
Cash rules electronic AI machines. (C.R.E.A.M.) AI’s so called threat to humanity hasn’t stopped the money train from barreling in. Santa Clara, California based Nvidia Corporation briefly joined the $1 trillion club with Apple, Microsoft, and Google Tuesday morning. ChatGPT started its first semester in college just as the market for gaming PC and crypto...
The truth is out there. We just haven’t found it yet. On Wednesday, real NASA scientists from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office held a public panel to discuss all of the unidentified anomalous phenomena that’s been happening in recent years. Most Sightings Are Easily Explained In short, no one has sighted any real UFOs. 95%...
You don’t read “Wendy’s” and “Fresh” in the same sentence very often. Even though Wendy’s is a late night last resort only chosen when I don’t want to die at Waffle House, I can’t help wrapping my lips around a large, juicy JBC at whatever o’clock in the morning. Wendy’s customers will soon place their...
In a first ever move the Cyberspace Agency of China, China’s information security and Internetwork regulatory, bans Micron products from being used in critical Chinese infrastructure. CAC’s ban comes after the US-led campaign to ban Huawei phones and network devices from being used in US and allied markets. The US Chip Act which diverts more...