YEARS YOU SPENT YEARS BRAGGING THAT YOU HIRED THE BEST ENGINEERS IN THE WORLD ONLY THE VERY BEST BUILDINGS FULL OF 10X ENGINEERS AND YOU GAVE THESE BRILLIANT GENIUS OUTLIER CODE MONSTERS TOOLS YOU SAID WILL MAKE THEM EVEN 10X MORE PRODUCTIVE IT WILL 10X YOUR 10X AND FIRED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SO YOU COULD AFFORD THEM AND THEY TRIED THOSE TOOLS AND DON'T WANT THEM AND DON'T USE THEM WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU MOTHERFUCKER WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU

Ars Technica

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.

“Org you’ve never heard of acquires company that operates your remotely managed home robot” is now a threat model in play.

Ars Technica

Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy

Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.

This both real and a decent metaphor, so it is time for me to re-tell a story. Ever heard of The Ping Of Death? There was a couple of years there - years, hand to god - where you could throw a single malformed or too-large packet across the network at any IP you could see, and if you malformed it just right for its OS, you could crash the machine. You could kill a Windows machine with one line in cmd.exe. It was bad, but almost nobody knows how bad.

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Does anyone know how the "anti-cheat" video game systems of the world feel about custom keyboards, particularly when it comes to macros? My son wants to build something that helps with Helldivers but also wants to be able to keep playing Helldivers.

My lazyweb friends, are there any deep-weirdness embedded-systems keeb weebs On Here? No disrespect to the switch-lube-and-QMK kit-bangers among us, but I've got a 512Kb STM32 here with 16MB of QSPI hanging off the side of it and the 4MB - yes, 4MB - of C I need to shim into this thing are refusing to be Inserted In The Usual Fashion so I think I need to talk to some of the serious perverts.

Disney gives OpenAI a billion dollars, sets new world record for ransom payments.

9to5Mac

OpenAI and Disney reach 'landmark agreement' to license characters on Sora - 9to5Mac

Disney characters are coming to OpenAI’s Sora video generation app — this time, with permission. OpenAI and Disney just announced a...

Anyway here’s a Mickey Mouse 35mm camera.

Lazyweb, is there a “this approach doesn’t work” index somewhere for math proofs around famous unsolved problems?

"AI-first just means Agile now". [ me with a thousand yards stare audibly racking in like a shotgun shell ] "Yes."

The companies whose whole job is understanding the Real Cost Of The Finding Out Part do not want to play this game at all.

You've heard of 'what if the Ship of Theseus was sentient', but now it's time for 'what if Plato's Cave refused to show you any shadows that might offend the cave's sponsors or damage the cave's brand?