Thursday, October 30
Daily News Stuff 30 October 2025
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- Microsoft went down. (The Verge)
The outage took out Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services, and most importantly, Minecraft, as well as a whole string of Azure customers like Starbucks, Costco, and Zoom. It even affected some services on AWS and Google Cloud.
It was DNS.
It is always DNS.
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- Microsoft keeps disabling workarounds for Windows 11's demand for an online account during setup.
Now Microsoft has YouTube playing cleanup for it, removing videos instructing people how to use the remaining workarounds. (Tom's Hardware)
Because fuck you, that's why.
- The problem with Windows handhelds is Windows. (The Verge) (archive site)
I knew it!
- Two-time Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is now at Gloo, where he is working on an AI that will... Accelerate the Second Coming? (The Guardian)
Look, it's The Guardian, so take that with a pillar of salt, but I'm not sure this would be entirely a good thing.
- Bending Spoons is buying AOL for $1.5 billion. (Axios)
We will always have the free coasters though.
- Grokipedia apparently contains insufficient leftist propaganda to satisfy the insufferable moral cretins at The Verge. (The Verge)
That's a promising sign, at least.
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Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, October 30 2025 09:01 PM (oJgNG)
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"Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis [Thanks to AI],"says the CACM senior editor:
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/computing-is-indeed-a-discipline-in-crisis/
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/computing-is-indeed-a-discipline-in-crisis/
Posted by: FOE@Monmouth at Friday, October 31 2025 01:58 AM (VzJiO)
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CACM is probably part of the problem, and PRC papers are a metric that is a distraction. The basic problem with academics chasing US research dollars is that academics have mostly told the 'uneducated' US public to fuck itself, and have not walked that back. Academic independence was never absolute enough for academics to on their own wage a civil war and expect no consequences from that. The universities were a terrorism subcontractor for the Democrats, and if the Democrats have truly lost the civil war, academics need to actually deliver on some of the requested peace concessions. American culture graduate students who are sane can tell that there is something very wrong with the universities, and maybe engineering has reasons to hang around, but CS maybe does not. Foreign grad students? AI may wind up export controlled, and we are not exactly going to appreciate hostile foreign security services stirring the US internal security pot.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, October 31 2025 06:30 AM (rcPLc)
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Remember when Microsoft was slightly less evil than Google, Apple, and Facebook?
Good times, good times.
Good times, good times.
Posted by: cxt217 at Friday, October 31 2025 01:19 PM (ZLF73)
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