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Microsoft Copilot On LG TVs Can’t Be Deleted

Marc Thomas — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:04:57 +0000

A Reddit user recently reported that his LG smart TV had just received an update with Microsoft Copilot installing itself, but without an option to remove it. Apparently, Samsung has also introduced this exciting new feature, so this is yet another example of AI cynically insinuating itself into our lives whether we want it or not. Presumably, this is a deal done between Microsoft and the…

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Microsoft Insisting On Microsoft Account Sign-In

Jim Hillier — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:12:45 +0000

Microsoft has recently announced further steps to prevent users from signing in via a local account: Back in March this year, Microsoft announced that it was blocking a well-known script used for circumventing the internet connection and Microsoft account sign-in requirements. However, it didn’t prevent users from applying other workarounds, such as performing a registry edit to activate…

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Microsoft Provides Free Windows 10 ESU For Europe

Jim Hillier — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:01:22 +0000

Microsoft has agreed to provide Windows 10 users in the European Economic Area (EEA) with free extended security updates until 13th October 2026. Microsoft’s decision follows pressure from representatives of the Euroconsumers group, who pointed out that Microsoft’s plan to stop providing security updates as of 14th October 2025 was in violation of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. However…

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Google & Microsoft At It Again!

Jim Hillier — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 05:50:28 +0000

We recently published an article detailing Google’s undue influence on the World Wide Web. Now, Google has been caught messing with YouTube Video Shorts. Several leading content creators noticed that the videos they submitted had been changed, and not for the better. Among the changes noted are smudgy video, noticeable upscaling artefacts, and natural characteristics such as hair and skin that…

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400 Million Users Have Abandoned Windows?

Jim Hillier — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:03:29 +0000

Reports have been circulating on tech sites that Windows has lost 400 million users over the past three years. However, those reports have been predicated on an incorrect assumption, and the fact is that Windows global usage has not decreased significantly at all. The story being widely reported was based solely on a Microsoft faux pas. Back in 2022, Microsoft said in a blog post that more than…

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In 2025 AI Has Already Cost The Tech Industry 100,000 Jobs

Marc Thomas — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:04:25 +0000

We’re only halfway through the year, and with the unstoppable rise of AI in the tech industry, we’ve already seen around 100,000 jobs disappear, so we should be very worried. According to a report from Final Round AI, about 500 tech workers are losing their jobs to AI every single day. As mentioned in my article Forza Motorsport Hits The End Of The Road, Microsoft recently laid off 9000 employees…

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Google Fights Ad-Blockers While Planning More Ads

Jim Hillier — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:09:13 +0000

Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent company) is the largest technology company by profit and among the world’s most valuable companies. ~ Wikipedia Google has recently upped the ante in its fight against ad-blockers, targeting YouTube users with a new round of anti-ad-blocker pop-ups. I received this pop-up very recently while browsing YouTube: At the same time, Google has announced that…

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Microsoft Extends Support For MS 365 On Windows 10

Jim Hillier — Thu, 22 May 2025 10:40:41 +0000

In a somewhat ironic twist, Microsoft has recently announced that it will extend support for Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 PCs, completely contradicting an announcement last January that support for Microsoft 365 apps would be discontinued when Windows 10 reaches end-of-support. Obviously, the decision to cut off support for MS 365 apps in Windows 10 annoyed a lot of users…

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Confirmed: Computerized Voting Machines Hacked

John Durso — Wed, 07 May 2025 04:07:21 +0000

On Thursday, April 10, in a televised cabinet meeting, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard confirmed that investigators uncovered evidence that electronic voting machines were tampered with to rig the results of past U.S. elections. The intel community has known that voting machines have been vulnerable for a long time. Gabbard said in the statement…

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Microsoft Publisher Leaving October 2026

Jim Canfield — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:22:20 +0000

The decision to deprecate certain Windows apps has sparked various opinions within the tech community. While some users might feel inconvenienced by these changes, compelling reasons exist to support this strategy as a positive step towards innovation and efficiency. Recently, we have lost: One of the early deprecated apps, Outlook Express, hit me the hardest because it was my go-to email…

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Firefox Removes Promise Not To Sell Personal Data

John Durso — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:02:12 +0000

Mozilla, the parent company of Firefox, just changed its Firefox FAQ. The old Firefox FAQ included a promise that Mozilla would never sell a user’s personal data. But Mozilla removed that promise in its new FAQ. If we go to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and enter the URL for the Firefox FAQ and select a January date, we can pull up an archived version of the Firefox FAQ.

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Is Android System SafetyCore Safe?

John Durso — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:43:51 +0000

In a recent security update, Google is loading a new application, Android System SafetyCore, to Android phones. The application has permissions to do almost anything on the device. Google has been secret about what this application really is. In a blog post, Google states that this new functionality, Sensitive Content Warnings, is to keep us safe from nudity by blurring the results and warning us…

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Chinese Developed AI Shockingly Devalues US Stocks

Jim Hillier — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:01:49 +0000

A Chinese startup called DeepSeek, that’s only been operating for 12 months, has developed an AI model at a cost of a mere $5.6 million, a fraction of the billions of dollars poured into AI development by US-based tech companies. This shock development sent shares in US tech companies plummeting – for example, shares in NVIDIA, a leading supplier of AI chips, fell in value by almost $600 billion…

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StartAllBack VS Start11

John Durso — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:03:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, our own Jim Hillier wrote an article about how Stardock’s Start11 will soon support a vertical taskbar. Start11 is a Windows 11 Start menu replacement utility. It allows a user to personalize the Windows interface and restore functionality that Microsoft has removed. I find the default Windows 11 Start menu irritating and unusable. In my opinion, a replacement Start menu utility…

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