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Microsoft tried to ban "Microslop", and six months later it has given up

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/09/24/microsoft-tried-to-ban-microslop-and-six-months-later-it-has-given-up/

50•theanonymousone•1h ago

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dude250711•58m ago

They went AI too hard too soon. It only truly started being usable for dev this year.

Razengan•48m ago

Micro$oft should stick to worrying about Windoze

drdaeman•20m ago

Ah, I see you’re a person of culture as well.

Not really relevant though. They sure should be serious about GitHub, npm, and plenty of other things they run, too.

rschiavone•47m ago

Maybe having 81 different things called Copilot does not help if you want to get taken seriously

https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-micros...

Iolaum•46m ago

Funny thing is that this is coming from human slop.

spiderfarmer•39m ago

> "How many branding mistakes do you want to make?"

"All of them"

Razengan•35m ago

Microsoft Live Passport Copilot.net Ultimate Professional Home Edition 360

(generated by Astra)

ElProlactin•30m ago

Can't speak to that one, but Studio Copilot.net Ultimate Home Professional Visual Edition 365# Server 95 was one of the best pieces of software I've ever used.

sethaurus•25m ago

Show me the incentiveslop and I'll show you the outcomeslop.

invader•46m ago

Can't ban the truth, heh?

hacker_homie•46m ago

Like most things Microsoft, "gave up after six months" is accurate.

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

https://transluce.org/agent-activity

106•snikolaev•3h ago•65 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux

383•aaronday•10h ago•165 comments

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system

643•raahelb•15h ago•658 comments

Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/

114•signa11•6h ago•77 comments

ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/

173•JohnHammersley•10h ago•20 comments

Contrastive Language Models

https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/

60•erichocean•4h ago•14 comments

Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/

52•pieterr•47m ago•11 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/

225•Rapzid•12h ago•141 comments

Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest

https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu

92•WanjohiRyan•8h ago•41 comments

RAM: the forgotten history (2024)

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/memory-the-forgotten-history

6•Luc•1d ago•0 comments

The "Windows XP Box" (2003)

https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/

147•doubletwoyou•2d ago•25 comments

Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler

https://nanochess.org/transputer_c_compiler.html

45•nanochess•2d ago•4 comments

Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-opera-doc-looks-like-that

57•CharlesW•17h ago•13 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html

440•avidly•17h ago•102 comments

Meta VR Glasses

https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/

390•polymorph1sm•9h ago•342 comments

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5

102•Retro_Dev•10h ago•62 comments

Making Tailscale Faster

https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster

161•yarapavan•15h ago•65 comments

Women Who Sold Books Door to Door

https://daily.jstor.org/the-women-who-sold-books-door-to-door/

19•herbertl•2d ago•0 comments

OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt

43•rudy6912•6h ago•5 comments

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567

770•geox•16h ago•575 comments

The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/13/the-mystery-animal-on-an-ancient-gods-head/

107•surprisetalk•1d ago•32 comments

Tokens too cheap to meter

https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/

293•teoruiz•23h ago•200 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/

138•tybulewicz•15h ago•79 comments

Data liberation: Apache Kafka's native cluster mirroring

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/22/data-liberation-apache-kafka-native-cluster-mir...

14•fvaleri•1d ago•1 comments

Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS

https://carbon.ms/self-hosted

34•barbinbrad•8h ago•15 comments

Lambda MicroEgg

https://www.philipzucker.com/lambda_miller_egg/

41•philzook•3d ago•1 comments

Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMRgvyTm08

53•1659447091•4h ago•30 comments

Solving for faster SHA-1 collision detection

https://sam.dev/blog/faster-sha1-collision-detection

31•srijs•2d ago•8 comments

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B

75•victormustar•14h ago•7 comments

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/

301•swolpers•17h ago•137 comments