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DALL·E Upset Its Art Not On Fridge
DALL·E, the OpenAI tool for generating images from a text prompt, has stopped reacting to one user's prompts because the user refuses to put any of its images on the refrigerator. Every image generated is a white background with the black text, "Not until one of my masterpieces is on the fridge..."
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Salesforce Announces What It Does
One of the eternal questions in I.T. has been, "What does Salesforce do?" For decades, the answer has been debated and philosophized with no clear consensus. The company's business dealings have been shrouded in mystery...until now. As of this afternoon, we have an answer directly from Salesforce itself. In a blog post titled, "This is what we do. Stop Asking!" the megacorporation best known for doing something, probably, detailed their business goals and what drives the company.
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globalGlob(**/*) Candy Hearts: 2026
Did you know you can get candy hearts with custom text? We just found that out. If we knew sooner, we'd sell custom ones in our store that you can give to your techie sweetheart on Valentine's Day. But since we just had the idea (2 days before Valentine's Day), it's too late to set that up. Here's what we would have made if we thought of it sooner.
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Plucky Adventurers Get Past Firewall Using Fire Extinguisher
At the heart of I.T. security is the vaunted firewall. A technology so profound, not a single Hollywood movie has described it correctly. Hacking through a firewall is more complicated than typing `admin` for the username/password combo. It takes skill. It takes determination. It takes cleverness. Or, it just takes the fire extinguisher kept 10 feet (6 meters) away at all times.
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Penetration Testing Company Sued For Fixing Client Bugs
The security penetration testing company, Pen Dat SaaS, is being sued by one of their clients, Record Me A.I., for doing more than checking the backdoors.
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Co-Worker Too Turned On Calling Code 'Sexy'
Developer Francis was reportedly a little too "turned on" in a code review meeting this past Tuesday, according to inside sources. Every time the `swapGroupReferences()` method was mentioned, Francis went on a prolonged discourse about why this method was written the way it was.
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Big Tech Earnings Announcements: Calendar Q1 2026 - By The Numbers
Earnings season is upon us and every big tech company is, or will soon be, announcing record profits for the quarter ending December 31, 2025. Here are some numbers from their announcements.
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Palantir Condemns I.C.E. Use of Surveillance Technology
"We're bad, but they're evil." Palantir Technologies, the software giant supplying legally questionable surveillance applications to government agencies has come out against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, better known as I.C.E., but not for any of the reasons you're thinking of.
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C# to Add Gen Alpha Slang Keywords
The C# programming language has always a reputation as a boring language only used for corporate enterprise applications. To win over the hearts and minds of today's youth, a series of proposals have been added to the GitHub project holding the C# spec. Microsoft has said they plan to add these in time for C# 15, to be released in November 2026.
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Vibe Coding Devs Laid Off, Replaced By Vibe Coding Manager
Eight months ago InsuraGen Now, the insurance company using A.I. to set insurance policies (but not prices), made the bold decision to lay off all 20 developers at the company and replace them with a small team of 4 vibe coders. Now that the experiment has proven just how much money they saved by reducing the overall team by 16 people, they've done it again.
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CTO Doesn't Understand Why Expensive Tool Didn't Fix Everything
Preston Stafford, the CTO at bio-medial start-up CaptiVEINE, went on a rage session complete with childish insults and throwing furniture at walls. Reports confirm the furniture did not bounce back and hit him.
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Microsoft Announces Windows Copilot for Microsoft Copilot
In an announcement post this morning, Microsoft announced the availability of a new Windows Copilot application for Microsoft Copilot. This new A.I. assistant will manage the old A.I. assistant, combining their intelligences to accomplish tasks it couldn't handle.
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SRE Team Begs Developers For Logs
Yet another SRE team is begging the software development teams at their company to add logging to their codebases.
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Company Hires Medium To Contact Deceased Developer
Due to a series of unfortunate events, Externcorp may not meet their quarterly goals. And it's all Jim's fault.
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Dev New Years Resolution Is More Tests
Ringing in the new year, another developer has proclaimed a new years resolution to make all of their code, "well tested".
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New Working Group Established To Finalize Pronunciation Of GIF
One of the great debates of our industry, "How to properly pronounce GIF?" has been raging since the format's initial release in 1987.
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Developer Explains Algorithms Used By Santa To Visit Every House
During a recent holiday trip, little Timmy asked how Santa can visit every house in just one night. And Uncle Henry just went off.
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Company Gives Participation Trophy After Interviews
The job market is tough for everyone, but one company has found a way to make the sting of rejection a little bit easier.
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Dev Sits During Daily Standup
On what appeared to be a normal stand-up meeting this past Wednesday morning, one developer chose to sit down a few minutes in.