4chan is Back Up
As we reported a little while back, 4chan was taken offline by a hack. It wasn’t as sophisticated as some might lead you to believe. One of the biggest reasons was its out-of-date servers and…
Author: Steven Vargas
Co-created this blog and podcast in 2010 and have been running it solo since 2023. Knower of everything and nothing.
Meta AI Chatbot Likes Dirty Talk
I have always been a firm believer that nothing is inherently made from a position of evil. Now, with that being said, many things are twisted into being used maliciously. Like social media, for example.…
Zoom and Spotify Suffered Outages
Outages happen. AT&T and Microsoft are the usual culprits. However, if you use Zoom or Spotify yesterday, you definitely knew they were down for a bit. If you have my luck, you definitely needed them…
PlayStation Plus Canada Gets Price Hike
With the economic instability going on around the world, Sony will be raising prices on Canadian gamers for PlayStation Plus. Now, I don’t try to be an economic expert, but I don’t understand how tariffs…
No, Fyre Festival 2 Postponed
When people ask, “don’t you feel sorry for those people?” In certain circumstances, I would say no. Like people of the MAGA cult, you voted for this. Much of the same would go to anyone…
4chan Taken Down by a Meme War
It seem that a meme war brought down a popular cesspool of human depravity. Many normal people probably don’t know what a “4chan” is, but it has a lot of commonality for the whole MAGA/QAnon…
Japan is Coming After Google
For those of you old enough to remember the nineties, you may remember the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. That lawsuit was against Microsoft for installing Internet Explorer in all computers, which the government claimed limited…
FTC Trial Explains Tech Allegiance to Trump
As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust against Meta started on Monday, things became clear to me. Back in January, we saw many of the tech companies – that Trump hated – donating money to…
Social Security Comms Moving to Twitter
I know the title of this post says “Twitter”. I will never call it that other name. Ever. If you hate helping seniors with their technological questions, be prepared for more. In something that is…
What Is Happening?
Some of you are probably wondering what is happening. Or, maybe none of you care. But I care. There was no Lazy Geeks episode this week. Why? Well, it was a rough week. It started…
Reuters Retracts Fake Tariff Story
One of the shows that I loved during the 2010s was The Newsroom. It was Aaron Sorkin’s view of how news media is going for being first rather than being right. While some people will…
Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning Trailer
It wouldn’t be summer without a trailer for a new Mission Impossible film. Last we saw Ethan Hunt, he was off to find the AI that was manipulating the deadliest weapon that every government on…