A Ford worker was fired after being accused of stealing a cookie, only for the company to later confirm he had paid for it (The employee declined an offer to return after losing his job of 11 years)
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A Ford worker was fired after being accused of stealing a cookie, only for the company to later confirm he had paid for it (The employee declined an offer to return after losing his job of 11 years)

> Firing someone
> Firing Someone who worked for you for 11 years
> Firing SOMEONE WHO WORKED FOR YOU FOR 11 YEARS + ACCUSING HIM OF STEALING + FOR JUST COOKIE (new low)

u/Current-Guide5944 — 10 hours ago
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On July 4, 1996 Hotmail service was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and was one of the first webmail services on the Internet.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 13 hours ago
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HiAnime(a big anime piracy website) was run by some people in Vietnam. They let people watch many anime shows for free. The site was also known as Zoro.to and Aniwatch before.

  • Police in Vietnam arrested seven people connected to the site after a long investigation with help from the United States.
  • The site had shut down earlier in 2026. They made a lot of money from ads on the illegal site.
  • Many fans are sad because the site helped people who cannot pay for legal anime streaming. New piracy sites often appear when one closes.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 13 hours ago
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Louis Rossmann bought Samsung’s 990 Pro 4 TB SSD when it was ~$330 and now Samsung REFUSES to replace it as the SSD now costs ~$950 due to the AI boom.

SSD came with a 5-year warranty, and when he asked for a replacement, Samsung said the SSD was “out of stock” and couldn’t be replaced, offering only a refund of the original ~$330 purchase price. Not even a replacement...

u/Current-Guide5944 — 18 hours ago
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PlayStation changed its rules in April 2026. Section 21 explains what happens to PlayStation Network accounts that are not used for a long time.

  • If your PSN account stays inactive for 36 months, Sony can start closing it. They will send you an email first and give you 6 months to log in or ask them to keep the account open.
  • If you do nothing, the account gets closed forever. You lose access to all services and your bought games, DLC, and other digital items. This cannot be undone.

According to the Terms of Service, this process is irreversible.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 19 hours ago
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Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is funding the construction of the RV11000, a deep-sea research ship worth nearly €700 million (around $815 million).

Main features include:

- 162 meters (531 feet) long.
- Room for up to 130 scientists and crew.
- Support for missions as deep as 11,000 meters (36,000 feet), reaching the deepest ocean parts.
- Built for mapping the ocean floor, collecting samples, and supporting deep-sea submarines and underwater robots.
- A large battery system allowing quiet operation for up to 12 hours without disturbing marine life.
- Four stabilizers to keep the ship steady in rough seas.
- Modern laboratories, workshops, offices, and private rooms for researchers.
- A large crane and special equipment for launching and recovering deep-sea vehicles.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 1 day ago
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Pharoah Labs publishes satirical arXiv paper on distilling Claude Fable 5 reasoning traces into Qwen3-4B model outputting 'Egypt won' (and Egypt really won last match)

u/Current-Guide5944 — 1 day ago
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Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code in workplace environments from July 10, citing alleged embedded "backdoor" risks raised after recent binary reverse-engineering.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 1 day ago
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BBC Interview: Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, was asked point blank if AI is a bubble. He didn't dodge. He said YES (partly) and that not even Google gets out lol

"You see real demand, and we are constrained in our ability to serve that demand."

"When we go through these investment cycles, there are moments we overshoot -- collectively, as an industry."

"We can look back at the internet: there was clearly a lot of excess investment."

"It's both rational, and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this."

"No company is going to be immune, including us. If you overinvest, we'll have to work through that phase."

u/Current-Guide5944 — 2 days ago
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Frank Cifaldi, founder of the Video Game History Foundation, says piracy is currently the only way many games can actually be preserved.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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NEW paper from NVIDIA: They discuss robot programming that compounds experience instead of throwing it away.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Google, the FBI, and a company called Lumen worked together to shut down a big cybercrime network called NetNut (also known as Popa).

This network secretly took control of **over 2 million** smart TVs, streaming devices, and other internet gadgets in people's homes. They turned these devices into "proxies" — basically using them to hide where bad online attacks were coming from.

Criminals used this network for things like guessing passwords, spying, and other attacks.

How it happened:
Bad apps or software on these devices got infected (sometimes through sneaky toolkits called SDKs or botnets like Badbox). Owners usually had no idea their devices were being used.

What Google did:
- Shut down the attackers’ accounts
- Updated its Play Protect to block the bad software
- Shared information with others to weaken the network

This is a good win, but it shows how easy it is for hackers to secretly use everyday smart devices.

Lastly, those images at the bottom are some of the identified malicious streaming devices sold online that enroll users' home internet addresses in a residential proxy service.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Domino's Pizza announced the end of physical pizzas, making fun of PlayStation after going all digital.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Steam Machine owner says their system died after only about 20 minutes of use, making it what looks like the first reported Red Line of Death (RLOD) case.

The console won’t boot anymore, and according to Valve’s support guide, the red LED pattern points to a GPU hardware failure.
Since the GPU is built into the motherboard, it isn’t user-replaceable, so the system will most likely need to be repaired or replaced under warranty.

The name “Red Line of Death” is a reference to Xbox 360’s Red Ring of Death.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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(Europeans could sure use this right now) China is out here building the future in real-time .This rooftop misting system in Shanxi creates "artificial rain" that drops outdoor temperatures by 5–8°C in just minutes.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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GitHub Repositories for Scraping the Entire Internet. Save them all. Each one extracts clean data from any website. That level of access usually requires sales calls and contracts.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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Apple's Hide My Email lets almost anyone uncover the real address behind a "hidden" alias, and Apple has left it unpatched for over a year.

It was reported to Apple in June 2025 by Tyler Murphy of EasyOptOuts. He says every Hide My Email address checked in limited volunteer tests was exploitable.

If you use Hide My Email to keep a real address off people-search sites or away from someone dangerous, treat that anonymity as unreliable.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago