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There's something going on over in Microsoft's Xbox division and it isn't good. Don't take my word on that. Apparently the bosses over there are circulating an email to staf ...

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not having a particularly good time of being the UK's leader. Basically everyone thinks he's doing a terrible job and it seems unlikely that he'l ...

Yesterday we wrote about the Trump administration forcing Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The short version: dumb. Today, Axios got White House officials on the record, and it turns ou ...

To completely understand computer security, it's vital to step outside the fence and to think outside the box. Computer security is not just about firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, or ...

Just once I'd like to see this administration engage in the slightest bit of subtlety. Just once. It would be a refreshing change from literally everything it has done during this current ite ...

Last week Elon Musk successfully conned America and U.S. regulators into signing off on his preposterous SpaceX IPO, which immediately generated Musk $75 billion by comically over-stating the value ...

We should all know at this point that RFK Jr. is bad at his job as Secretary of HHS. But that simplistic statement apparently needs something of a qualifier. Instead, it appears we should say that ...

What's most disturbing about Trump's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" executive order isn't its fully-blinkered, jingoistic take on American history wh ...

The Trump "Department of Justice's" "antitrust division" dumped its unsurprising approval of the terrible Paramount Warner Brothers merger late on Friday in the hopes ...