Headline: "Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life"

This should be compulsory, maybe through some sort of documentation escrow facility.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/

The Leatherman® HandWave™ is a niche multitool for Force insensitive users, released to coincide with the Life Day gift season. It contains two fold-out Kaiburr Crystals—straight and serrated—a single use Mind Trick (replaceable), a bottle opener with a range of up to three meters, a Bantha-hoof pick, and an ear spoon. On sale now at Space Amazon for CR129.95.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

This is the most important story I've ever written:

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/08/abc-parliament-house-bureau-bogong-moths/

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI."

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/dells-ces-2026-chat-was-the-most-pleasingly-un-ai-briefing-ive-had-in-maybe-5-years/

Australia's eSafety Commissioner is assessing several image-based abuse complaints involving Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, after weeks a "mass undressing spree" where it publicly generated 10,000s images including many women depicted in revealing outfits or suggestive positions.

https://thesizzle.com.au/p/elon-musk-ai-chatbot-grok-reported-to-australia-esafety-for-making-deepfake-sexual-images

The where now, excuse me Star Trek Voyager?

#StarTrek

Steve Russell—the man who made the first video game—is still alive. Not a myth. Not a footnote. Walking around, same as the rest of us.

In 1962, Russell coded Spacewar! on the DEC PDP-1 at MIT. It spread fast. So fast that it directly led to the formation of Atari. Their first arcade release, Computer Space was essentially Spacewar! shoved into a coin-op cabinet.

Russell didn’t stop there. He wrote the first two implementations of Lisp. He later taught Bill Gates and Paul Allen how to use a computer.

Video games. Programming languages. Microsoft.

Same guy. Still alive.