Brutkey

Scalzi
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Cool, the browser I only ever use to download a different browser is getting even less useful

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-reportedly-turning-edge-browser-copilot-app/

Scalzi
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Traditionally-published authors (print/ebook/audio): Promote your books today in the 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide! Thousands of readers to connect to your work! Follow the link below to tell folks about what you have available to them this holiday season!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/the-2025-whatever-holiday-gift-guide-day-one-traditionally-published-books

(Indie book authors, you have a whole day to yourself tomorrow. Musicians, crafters, artists and others, your day is Wednesday!

Also don't post your books in this thread, post them at the link above)

Scalzi
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Which is to say, don't use it at all

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-launches-copilot-ai-function-in-excel-but-warns-not-to-use-it-in-any-task-requiring-accuracy-or-reproducibility/

Scalzi
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The September that finally ended

https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/aol-will-end-dial-up-internet-service-in-september-34-years-after-its-debut-aol-shield-browser-and-aol-dialer-software-will-be-shuttered-on-the-same-day

Scalzi
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Here we are, well into August, and here is a stack of new books and ARCs to consider for the dog days ahead. What here looks good to you?

Scalzi
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FYI the ebook of Old Man's War is going for $1.99 here in US/Canada at (most) ebook stores, for, I think, today. Get it! Cheap! And then buy all the rest of the series including the upcoming seventh installment, The Shattering Peace! The cats need tuna!

Scalzi
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You know, one of the hallmarks of fascism is an authoritarian government deciding who has access to the market and who does not, a system that favors the players large enough to pay the necessary bribes

https://wccftech.com/after-nvidia-and-apple-south-korea-declares-that-samsung-and-sk-hynix-are-also-exempt-from-trumps-100-percent-tariffs-on-semiconductors/

Scalzi
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Perhaps the Most American Headline of All Time, from Reason Magazine

Scalzi
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(Also Spoiler: We'll just make more)

Scalzi
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Perhaps the Most American Headline of All Time, from Reason Magazine