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A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users Back in June I wrote Wait.

Part of Big Tech's War on Users Six months of "too dangerous."

Where We Left Off Part 19 was two and a half weeks of rebuilding nixos2 on new hardware after the old box started screaming at me.

It's over.

A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users Five days.

A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users OpenAI won't go public until it can make confident safety decisions.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.

Part of Big Tech's War on Users Back in January, Brad Smith stood up in Washington and launched Microsoft's Community-First AI Infrastructure initiative.

Part of Big Tech's War on Users So someone's actually going to try it.

Two Muse stories dropped days apart, and read together they tell you everything.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.

A follow-up to Sony's Monopoly Fine Gets Paid In Monopoly Money Back in May I wrote about Sony getting preliminary approval on a $7.85 million settlement for allegedly monopolizing the PlayStation digital games market, and how the "compensation" was store…

LinkedIn Beat the Lawsuit.

Part five of a series.

"Unlimited" is doing a lot of work in tech marketing these days, and it never means what you think it means.

Back in March, I wrote about Jensen Huang wanting $1 trillion while demoing features you'll need $10,000 to run.

A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users Brussels designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine today, alongside Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms, under the Digital Services Act.

I've gotten more cynical as I've gotten older, and this one is a pretty good test of that.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.

Nvidia just told Wall Street it'll personally cover up to 25% of the loss if the GPUs backing $500 billion in AI data center loans turn out to be worth less than the paperwork says.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. 9to5Mac had a piece today that I can't stop turning over, because it's not really about the feature it's describing.

Where We Left Off Part 18 was a Friday-evening update to Vaultwarden's version, making sure I was ahead of a Bitwarden app update before it could cause me any issues — one service, one box, a couple hours.

$55 billion. $20 billion of that in debt.

Sorry for the delay getting this out — nixos2 developed a problem I've been chasing down as I could find the time, and it ate most of the week.

Where We Left Off Part 17 was a dashboard cosplaying as the bridge of the Enterprise.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.

Quick one, because the states just won round one.