In the category of "news we haven't heard in a real long time," it seems the FBI arrested an actual bad guy today - someone who committed a real crime.

So, that's different.

At about 3:00pm EDT, a major outage hit many internet companies.

Massive outages are being reported across platforms including Spotify, Google Cloud, AWS, Cloudflare, Claude, YouTube, Gmail, and many, many, more.

Cloudflare System Status page reads: "We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level."

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/widespread-google-outage-hits-services-intermittent-failures

NEW - Meta Invests $14 Billion in Scale AI to ‘Deepen’ its Work on Superintelligence.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/1i8jpcw19u/

@disclosetv

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Now that Kash is in charge of the FBI

Maybe it's time to submit a petition to have them finally do away with VHS tape warnings 🤣

That and the legal threats attached to every mattress about not removing the tag 😂

The best device in modern American history designed for finding the right shoe size 😂

What ever happened to eveready batteries? 😂

Are they still made? 🤔

Among the best gadget inventions in history

We find the famous "dust buster" 🤩

😂 I actually liked "get smart" ... understanding not everyone did ...

the "cone of silence" was great 🤣

Amazon.com , homepage, in 1997. 🤣

weekend goals 🤣

The first Apple logo in 1976, and the first Microsoft logo in 1977.

What do you notice about these original logos? 🤔

anyone remember having a fridge like this? 🤣

Have a great weekend, frens! 🤩

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Denmark's open source move could be a game-changer!

https://news.itsfoss.com/denmark-set-to-replace-microsoft/

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