If anybody wants a smile btw, a MS employee told me they believe this Mastodon thread and my blog cost them over a billion dollars.

I think it’s firmly on Microsoft’s shoulders, the rollout of Recall and Copilot+ PC was just a series of own goals. They had huge expectations for it in terms of consumer demand and just.. didn’t think it through on many levels.

Microsoft has confirmed they’ve dropped the Copilot+ PC brand, after it flopped due to the botched launch of Microsoft Recall. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc-makers-quietly-pull-back-on-tarnished-windows-11-ai-pc-branding

Great news everybody, cyber folks can retire to McDonalds now because a guy who has one job as a data inputter has discovered a GitHub list of AI slop tools. Cyber is solved!

Handheld Scanner is a Radio Multi-tool https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/handheld-scanner-is-a-radio-multi-tool/

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.