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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

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Dragonsweeper is my favorite game of 2025 (so far)

February 10, 2025

While writing a wide-ranging history of Windows Minesweeper for Boss Fight Books in 2023, I ended up playing many variations of Microsoft’s beloved original game. Those include versions with hexagonal…

Technology

Tesla turns to Texas to test its autonomous “Cybercab”

February 10, 2025

If you live or drive in Austin, Texas, you might start seeing some new-looking Teslas on your roads later this summer. Tesla says it wants to start offering rides for…

Technology

Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again

February 10, 2025

Here we (maybe) go again: Reports from a handful of early adopters of Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are reporting that their power cables are melting (so far,…

Technology

As Elon Musk Continues To Repeat Lies About Who And What USAID Funded, Turns Out, It Funded Elon Musk

February 10, 2025

Last week, we highlighted how the richest person on the planet — Elon Musk, who currently appears to have unparalleled, Constitutionally-violating control over the US government — was running around…

Technology

Daily Deal: The 2025 MERN Full Stack Developer Bundle

February 10, 2025

Advance your programming skills and start building responsive apps with the 2025 MERN Full Stack Developer Bundle. The 10 courses cover HTML, Bootstrap, CSS, React, MongoDB, Express, NodeJS, and more.…

Technology

Court Blocks DOGE’s Treasury Access, Adding Credence To CFAA Claims

February 10, 2025

Early Saturday morning a judge imposed an emergency temporary restraining order in response to the State of New York v. Trump litigation. This particular lawsuit was brought by several (blue)…

Technology

Citing EV “rollercoaster” in US, BMW invests in internal combustion

February 10, 2025

BMW has pledged to continue investing in combustion engine and hybrid technology as it warned of a “rollercoaster ride” in the US transition to electric vehicles following the return of…

Cybersecurity

Hackers Exploit Google Tag Manager to Deploy Credit Card Skimmers on Magento Stores

February 10, 2025

Threat actors have been observed leveraging Google Tag Manager (GTM) to deliver credit card skimmer malware targeting Magento-based e-commerce websites. Website security company Sucuri said the code, while appearing to…

Technology

No, The People Didn’t Vote For This

February 10, 2025

A stunning 54% of Americans now believe we’re in a Constitutional crisis, according to recent YouGov polling. They’re right. As a tech billionaire effectively dismantles federal agencies without Congressional authority…

Technology

CenturyLink nightmares: Users keep asking Ars for help with multi-month outages

February 10, 2025

CenturyLink hasn’t broken its annoying habit of leaving customers without service for weeks or months and repeatedly failing to show up for repair appointments. We’ve written about CenturyLink’s failure to…

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