These companies are all the same, they hired a ridiculous amount of people that they didn't need and now they're using AI to do the busywork invented to keep these people busy, are reducing the workforce and clapping themselves on the back for how awesome they are. Huzzah!

I'm convinced that most big companies are huge for no good reason, especially in tech. Do you need to have thousands of devs "working" on your products? Did Twitter need 10000 employees to function? Definitely not (firing 90% within a couple weeks without adjusting internal processes and such for it beforehand was dumb, but they're still running fine... contents notwithstanding). Does Salesforce need 76 453 employees? I very much doubt it.

When I was job searching a couple years back I noticed a lot of sites were just scraping job listings from all over and providing their own search engine on top. Applying would just take you to the original listing on Indeed or wherever else. Of course, they would slap some ads everywhere and bingo, you're a job search engine.

"Why is piracy so popular!!" laments the clueless executive.

You don't suppose it's because people don't like having to subscribe to 5 different services to view the content that they want AND need to suffer through ads on top of it as well, do you? How often do you see a preview for something or are searching for a specific movie/show, only to realize that it's not on the service you're paying for?

Who knew that people who need to use a payment plan to purchase a combo meal at McDonald's would be so bad at repaying debt?

Bingo. Going public is a guarantee that the product will either get worse/bloated, or stagnate and not improve. Saying "our investors are in it for the long term" is bullshit, it's all about quarterly projections and profits, so as soon as the stock starts dipping, the exec suite will start mandating the addition of bells and whistles to give the illusion of progress/improvement so that the stock goes back up again.

Sounds like Microsoft's AI filter is actually just a blacklist of websites and not an AI analyzing what's on screen to determine whether it should save an image or not...

Having cheap electricity must be nice... Until I can scrounge up enough for some solar panels, my computers remain off when not in use.

I'm with you. The Star Wars universe is big and super interesting, there's plenty of room for new stories unthethered to the original characters. For instance: Goonies in space (Skeleton Crew) looks like it could be really interesting, it gives a glimpse into Star Wars suburbia that we've never seen before. How about a horror or thriller movie set in that universe? Band of Brothers with clone troopers, some rando person climbing the ladder in the Hutt controled underworld, etc. There's room to innovate within that universe.

Now the same should be done for YouTube where bad actors can give other content makers copyright strikes that can demonitize the channel and lead to a ban. This is especially egregious considering that victims of a false copyright strike have very little recourse (even bigger name YouTubers have run into this problem) to reverse the issue since communicating with YouTube/Google is nigh impossible.

My issue isn't that a newly founded company has no product or customers, it's that it's supposedly worth 5 billion...

The company is worth 5 billion and has just raised 1 billion. It has no product, no customers, vague promises that aren't super clear and 10 employees. 5 billion for hot air... this is ridiculous.

Summary says that Europe was 7% wetter, however it's not "Europe" but rather "parts of Europe", which leads to some areas living through droughts and others through floods. So although Europe was on average wetter, for southern France it's never been dryer up to the point that we're running out of water during the summer months because it's not raining and we're no longer getting any snow during winter (I live in the alps at 1000m and had at most 15cm, maybe 20cm of snow total at my altitude during last winter).

The bitcoin farmers are just using excess (presumably cheap) energy to power their farms. How is this electrifying anything? They're not the ones generating power, they are just parking themselves near producers and sucking up the excess, that's not going to magically power remote villages or anything. This is non-story, I wouldn't even call this greenwashing...

A single player game shouldn't need a server at all. As for the fraud case, I'm pretty sure that Ubi covered its ass in the fine print by indicating that you're not buying a game, but a license that can be revoked at any time. Again, the solution is to not buy.

I always wondered... it has capacity for 9 million people to live there. Alright, where would these 9 million people come from, they can't all be tourists? Refugees? Lol, no. People leaving their homes in Saudi to move to this thing? So would the departure cities all be returned to the desert or what? What's the plan there? This project never made any sense.