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Reviewing the Apple MacBook Neo (2026)
Don't ask how, but we got ahold of a brand new Apple MacBook Neo (2026). These things are selling like hotcakes, so we're just as surprised we got one as you are. After spending 15 minutes with one, the minimum amount of time to get to know a laptop, we wrote up this review. We hope it helps you decide if the Apple MacBook Neo (2026) is for you.
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Microsoft To Improve Windows Performance By Removing Speed-Up Loops
Microsoft has announced a renewed focus on Windows performance and reliability. All of that will come from removing speed-up loops littered throughout the Windows codebase.
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Dev Only Communicates In Memes, Team Worries He Can't Read
The app development team at 'My Agent and Me' is reportedly worried their newest developer can't read or write. In his 2 months on the job, Brendan Lock has only communicated using memes, GIFs, and emojis in the team's Slack channel. Not a single meme has had text.
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Microsoft Announces Non-A.I. Ticket for MS Build 2026 Conference
Microsoft's yearly Developer Conference, Build 2026, is in a few months. Anyone can watch the sessions online for free, or you can "request to attend" and maybe get the pleasure of purchasing one of the limited in-person tickets for $1,099.
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Cool Hacker Too Old To Use Sunglasses
Legendary hacker, Georgie "Sunshine" Rogers, says he is too old for his signature look of sunglasses and a yellow hoodie.
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Reviewing Intel's Claims for the 270K Plus Gaming CPU
Intel today announced their first 200S Plus desktop processors, the Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus, complete with bold claims in their marketing materials. After some failed dumpster diving, we got our hands on a 270K by just asking for it (lesson learned). This is our very early review of the claims Intel is making about the chip.
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Amazon Lays Off Alexa For Causing Site Outages
Tom's Hardware is reporting Amazon conducted meetings on recent 'high blast radius' incidents blamed on A.I. assisted code changes. globalGlob(**/*) can now confirm the A.I. assistant Alexa has been blamed as the cause of those problems...
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Tech Company Raises $32 Billion Seed Round By Removing A.I. Features
The software testing start-up Quality quality Quality (Qu-qu-Qu) has secured $32 billion in seed funding, valuing the company at $82 billion. They were reportedly able to raise the large sum of money by removing many implemented A.I. features in their platform.
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Dev Spends 12 Story Points Adding T-Rex ASCII Art To CLI, Looks Pretty Sweet
A local developer has added ASCII art of a Tyrannosaurus Rex to their CLI tool. The work took 12 of the 18 allocated story points for the sprint. The other members of the team thought wasting so much time on ASCII art would be a waste of time. But after showing the result in the team demo, the consensus was that it, "Looks pretty sweet."
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Microsoft Trademarks the term 'Microslop'
Following reports Microsoft has blocked the term 'Microslop' from its Discord server, another team at Microsoft has decided to own up to it by trademarking the term. Like when you were a teenager and somehow got the nickname 'Mr. Peepee Pants'...
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Looksmaxxing Dev Constantly Reformatting Code
Looksmaxxing, some new fad kids are doing to make themselves look better, has made its way into the software development industry. Jeffery Cook, Staff Developer at D'Amore Software LLC, has fallen for the fad his son has become so obsessed with.
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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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Thought Leader Out Of Thoughts
"A.I. isn't the future, it's now!" self-titled Thought Leader Jim Tom Thomas claimed in a post last week.
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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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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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GitHub Fixes Every NPM Vulnerability By Shutting Down NPM
"Everyone thought Microsoft would screw up NPM when GitHub acquired it, but I think this proves all the haters wrong." The opening line from GitHub's latest announcement regarding NPM is a bold statement, but accurate.