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Microsoft fires Joe Lopez for disrupting Genocide-profiteer Satya Nadella during Microsoft Build Keynote speech and bans words like "Palestine", "Gaza" and "Genocide" in all company emails!!! Yet another chapter in a long tale of Microsoft's intimidation, retaliation, repression, and censorship culture.

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In 1994, the Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Eno to compose music for Windows 95. The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, "The Microsoft Sound".

Eno shed further light on the composition of the sound on the BBC Radio 4 show The Museum of Curiosity, admitting that he created it using a Macintosh computer, stating "I wrote it on a Mac. I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them."

In 2025, the Microsoft Sound was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time Discord has been active.

Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data, it’s hard to imagine anyone is comfortable with almost a decade of their Discord messages sitting in a public JSON file online. Separately, a different programmer released a Discord tool called "Searchcord" based on a different data set that shows non-anonymized chat histories.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30023254

By banning VPN apps and pressuring tech platforms, the Kremlin is accelerating its long-standing effort to build a tightly controlled sovereign internet—cutting citizens off from the global web.

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edit: looks like its been taken down

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https://archive.ph/uSXx2

Great journalism from the New York Times

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President Trump’s recent trip to Gulf countries was notable for the ways that American foreign policy overlapped with his own family’s business interests.

But another powerful family also cut lucrative deals with Arab rulers. Mr. Musk joined Saudi and U.S. officials for lunch. He announced SpaceX had secured approval to provide its Starlink satellite internet services to companies in Saudi Arabia. Last Tuesday, his brain chips company Neuralink announced a deal to conduct a medical trial in the UAE.

His brother Kimbal Musk signed agreements with Qatar and Abu Dhabi to provide a series of drone light shows through his company Nova Sky Stories.

Kimbal said on social media that the Abu Dhabi events would feature 10,000 drones. Errol Musk - Musk’s father - says he travels often to the Emirates. “We were guests of the sheikh of Abu Dhabi” he wrote.

Errol told Arabian Gulf Business Insight that he is working with the Al Khaili Group of Abu Dhabi to build a Musk tower in Dubai. He said it will house the Musk Institute, a planned technology hub to study “gravity and space-time travel.”