But his schedule did not include having his phone infiltrated by Pegasus, the phone hacking software made by Israel’s NSO Group.

Found the journalist who writes hard boiled detective noire on the side.

How breaking up Google could lower your online shopping bill

I am willing to sell any and all future savings on my online shopping bill, today, for 50 cents on the dollar. It's a bargain!

You give me say, 50 bucks today, and in the future when I save 100 dollars, I send that to you. All 100 buckaroos. Practically free money for the taking. Who's in?

That time Snow Crash was going to be a movie and HN said this is bad.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4116694

Lolol. "Apple sucks, they're destroying macOS." Later...

The problem discussed here turned out to be specific to Little Snitch 6.1 and not a general issue in macOS.

He had a stroke of luck. Yet another procession of some league swarmed down Seventh Street, hollering and raising dust-some two hundred long-haired idiot men and short-haired idiot women, waving stupid signs, as filthy and tattered as himself and even worse, as if they'd all been crawling through holes in fences, spilling garbage cans on themselves, and on top of that had recently spent a wild night in a coal bin.

LLMs are people too and deserve privacy just like people.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openai-threatens-bans-for-probing-new-ai-models-reasoning-process/

But how can the fed cut rates in the face of runaway hyperinflation?

Contrary to rumors you may have heard, Mozilla is not shutting down the honknet.

OT: explainer

Best part of overtime in NFL games is they have to explain the rules every time it happens.

It has been 0 days since someone asked "what if you like a like?"

Me: All I want is for Windows 11 to be more like Windows 10.

Monkey's Paw: You're the boss.

For example, an update in early 2024 added Copilot to the taskbar, and now another Windows 11-like change is coming to Windows 10: Microsoft account manager in the Start menu.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/09/12/windows-10s-start-menu-design-is-changing-to-make-room-for-microsoft-365/

Without the internet archive, we'd have lost the original reference for the important fact that gamesradar would have gone gay for Zack Fair. The url now redirects to an entirely different story. History matters, people!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Fair#cite_note-47

Oregon’s Largest Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green. It Sells as Much Fossil Fuel as Before.

Literally recycling the plot from Industry.