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FCC chair warns media not to run the “fake polls” Trump keeps complaining about

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today warned broadcasters about airing “fake polls,” amplifying one of the many complaints that President Trump has regularly made about the news media. Carr’s…

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Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Tesla published its third-quarter 2026 financial results this afternoon. Earlier in October, it reported its sales and deliveries for the three-month period, selling fewer cars than in the same quarter…

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Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes. Often, those firms’ IT heads think those changes are detrimental. Those results…

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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

In September, when Microsoft severely limited the game-streaming buffet available to Game Pass subscribers, the company said non-subscribers would soon be able to “purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox…

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Court Stays Bricks & Minifigs’ Ridiculous Subpoenas Trying To Unmask Publisher Of The BAM Map, For Now.

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

A quick update on a story we mentioned earlier this month. Much of the attention in the whole Bricks & Minifigs saga has focused on Reckless Ben and his attempts…

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Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is stuck facing a lawsuit over alleged data center pollution after Donald Trump failed to convince a judge that his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has complete control…

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Report: Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, then blamed it on Trump

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

A Wall Street Journal report said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ordered the Starlink throttling that blindsided Ukraine’s air assault forces last week, despite Musk’s claim that all decisions on the…

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OpenAI’s latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Google would certainly prefer that everyone used its Gemini models with Google Cloud services, but soon, you’ll have more options. OpenAI and Google have come to an arrangement that will…

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RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

The legendary studio behind series like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is no more. BioWare announced via social media Wednesday afternoon…

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The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Apple just revealed a new brand identity for Apple Music, with the expected turn to Liquid Glass. I’m not much of a fan of their new design language in general;…

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