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incredible, so-called AI companies stormed the International Math Olympiad at the last second and simply announced they’d “won” “gold medal performance” with mealy mouthed statements when they’d done nothing of the sort. It was a lie for publicity.

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-03-28/how-ai-giants-tried-to-storm-the-last-stronghold-of-the-human-mind-the-math-olympiads.html

How AI giants tried to storm the last stronghold of the human mind: the math olympiads

EL PAÍS reconstructs what many media outlets sold as ‘the news story of the year,’ and some of its protagonists described as a ‘disgrace’: the supposed ‘gold medal-level performance’ by big tech, which overshadowed the real competition involving 600 youngsters

EL PAÍS English

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From Zip To Nought: The Rise and Fall of Iomega

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/

From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega

If you were anywhere near a computer in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly encountered a Zip drive. That distinctive purple peripheral, with its satisfying clunk as you slotted in a cartri…

Hackaday

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ananas 4d ago

@MicroSFF
Think of the baker's girl, the one who dreamed of fangs and claws
And weep, for you know why girls dream such dreams
But think of the baker's girl as well, the one who from pain remade herself
And rejoice, for you know that no cage will hold her
Ever again

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin 5d ago

"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..."

The witch did not roll her eyes.

"...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws."

"She asked."

"You've made her a monster!"

"Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does."

"Removing what?"

"Someone's right to be who they are."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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rndeon Mar 16

Reading https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit ( HT @pluralistic ) and I'm astounded.
I had heard of web ad auctions.
I had heard of edge computing.
I did not realize they were pushing their ad auction calculations onto your device!
Knowing this, I think ad blockers are too polite a response. Are there any browser plugins that send them something like a decompression bomb? Or maybe that interferes in the ranking so the cheapest bid is returned as the winner? My device is the one deciding, after all!

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

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Melissa BearTrix 4d ago

What's ! The ! Fuck !

Hugz & xXx

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/company-in-96m-bom-site-redesign-gets-16m-contract/106478264

Company that built botched new BOM website wins $16m contract for new site

The company responsible for the highly criticised BOM website wins a $16 million tender to build a new climate data website for the government.

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wolfwalks Mar 20

If you are designing a mascot, hire a furry.

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Angus McIntyre 4d ago

@SteveRudolfi @pluralistic Google puts on its Crocodile Dundee hat and drawls "THAT's not #enshittification. THIS is enshittification!”

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schratze Feb 20

I honestly can't with this cat

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AnarchoNinaWrites 5d ago

I mean in Nazi Germany, more or less the shitlibs agreed with Hitler that the left must be ruthlessly suppressed with the full force of the state (because they hate sharing and something something "communism!") and were simply surprised to find that Hitler included them with the left when the Enabling Act dropped.

Sound familiar? It should...

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