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You, too, can be the "most trusted investigative journalist in digital security," only it'll cost you a couple grand. SMH
First time I’ve ever seen this - Microsoft’s view count has gone down since it started, as it’s been AI AI AI. People are mocking it in the chat and then leaving.
Please don’t be Recall 2
The new Surface (or Surace as they called it on stage) starts at £2600/$2600 for the most basic model and goes to £5900/$5900 for 128gb of RAM. That RAM is also shared with the video card.
The MS event was a total car crash. They had fewer viewers for the majority of it than before they started the event - they had fewer than 14k viewers for the hardware unveil, that went down too.
They had the Nvidia CEO on but they couldn’t get his microphone working.
They started preorders but the MS store is broken.
When normal people show up to mastodon
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Yesterday I saw someone say "Kubernetes is made out of attack surface" and I'm still chuckling about it.
RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117399919854102309
Microsoft Teams once again outperformed by a 1970’s-era cleartext radio protocol. Put ACARS in the magic quadrant for real time collaboration as a leader, you cowards.
Oh no!
"Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90.
A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline."
We all remember her from these iconic pictures.
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
https://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817
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