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matrixbot @thematrixb0t MICROSOFT CAN ERASE YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER! A man is going viral after exposing what millions of Windows users are just now realizing about Bill Gates’ Microsoft. “I think they should have to go to jail for this.” Windows updates quietly turn on OneDrive without a plain English warning. Your files don’t get “backed …
By Peter Reagan I’m going to start with something that sounds like good news. Most of the truly catastrophic things we worry about… never actually happen. That’s not just optimism – it’s human experience. As Mark Twain supposedly said, most of the terrible things in his life never occurred. But here’s the problem. The things …
Blackouts, breakdowns, and biohazards are now just keystrokes away. The Pentagon’s recent decision to downgrade China as America’s primary threat arrives at a strange moment. As officials refine their rhetoric in Washington, Chinese operatives continue to map the nation’s nervous system: power grids, water plants, phone networks, hospitals, and railways. It’s a sustained and serious …
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it “digital transformation.” The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would “10x productivity.” That’s not a real …