- newTurn Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access into a one-time $50 purchase
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office 2024 Pro Plus for Windows for $49.97 (MSRP $249.99) through October 15. The one-time license includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access without recurring subscription fees.It seems l…
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- newNew Zealand bank censors racy fan art of sexy new sheep mascot
Kiwibank unveiled its new mascot Buck this year, hoping the adorable cartoon sheep would convince people to move their accounts there. Now the New Zealand-based bank is struggling to contain Buck's success as consumers make deposits of a different ki…
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- newBurglar escapes with stack of empty Mac Mini boxes
A man who broke into a tech company in Tempe, Arizona, made off with what he "likely" thought were Apple computers. But the Mac Mini boxes were empty, and he left the computers on the desks there. "I come in, the window was smashed to pieces," emplo…
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- newClassic real-time strategy game Total Annihilation is 30 years old—and everyone is remixing it
Nanolathe is the latest example of a fascinating subgenre of real-time strategy game: Chris Taylor's 1997 hit Total Annihation but with something more. Nanolathe offers an open source MIT-licensed 2.5D RTS engine reimplementing the original plus thre…
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- newUnsurprisingly, gambling apps reward gambling addiction
It's kind of bleak that gambling ads have become so ubiquitous, right? It feels like every time you turn on the TV or click on a YouTube video, you're greeted with some morally bankrupt celebrity — usually Kevin Hart — trying their hardest to mak…
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- newMinesweeper as a triple-A game
I'm about to say something bold and trailblazing: the triple-A game development industry isn't particularly creative and has stagnated significantly, in large part thanks to overinflated budgets bringing with them astronomical revenue goals that heav…
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- newMessing with AI interviewers is cathartic
If you've been engaging with the American job market lately, first of all, I'm so sorry. Second of all, you've probably run into an AI-powered "automated recruitment agent": in other words, an AI bot that the company makes you do a one-sided intervie…
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- new"Terrible games" made with AI
Last week, a clone of Adobe's Creative Suite appeared, said to be reverse-engineered and recreated using AI. Adobe's bad reputation made it easy for the internet to take perverse joy in its misfortune. Out with Adobe's surveillance technology, in wit…
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- newA used PS5 Pro will now run you twice its original launch price
Remember when the PS5 Pro launched and we all lost our collective minds about it costing $700, which is, to be fair, still an egregious price for a console? Good times.If only we knew, right? The enormity of the AI component crunch hadn't quite hit…
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- newAnthropic wants people to stop being mean to Claude
Anthropic updated its usage policy to protect Claude from bullies. Along with clarifications on child sexual abuse material and weapons development, the 2026 Usage Policy update prohibits users from "Engag[ing] in sustained and needless abusive or cr…
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