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Mount Fuji has never been snowless this late in the year. The peaks are usually white by Oct. 2. Blame unusually high temperatures. My Mount Fuji pun isn’t just funny — it’s hill areas. (Oh, was that a groan I heard, or are you hungry?)

WTH? The Colorado Department of State posted a spreadsheet with partial passwords to its voting machines on its website. No biggie, they say, since each machine has two unique passwords, needs physical access and is stored in an ID-only area. Someone needs to get fired — now.

Using Meta’s Threads, the rival to X. Zuckerberg says it’s on track to be their next major social app, with over 1 million people signing up each day. I think it’s kinda lame …

Atlas doesn’t need lunch breaks: Boston Dynamics just dropped a new video of its humanoid robot Atlas. The bot does factory work, like moving engine covers between supplier containers and a mobile sequencing dolly — complete with full-motion bending and turning. The big deal is that no human needs to tell the bot what to do after training.

📅 Support for Windows 10 ends Oct. 14, 2025: You’ll be able to pay $30 for one year of extended security updates, but that’s as far as it goes. Heads-up: Windows 11 works on CPUs made in 2018 or later. Here’s a budget pick and a high-spec model (25% off) if your laptop is older.

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💀 Google Search is dead: OpenAI added a search function to ChatGPT for up-to-the-minute news, weather, sports scores — you name it — without ads or scrolling. It’s live now for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers; free access will come within the next few months. I predicted Google’s demise two years ago, and people laughed at me.

Android folks, watch out for this: FakeCall malware is targeting over 20 banks. It starts with an infected app that becomes the default calling app on your phone. The next time you call your bank, it redirects to the attacker’s number with a fake screen and everything. Remember, you should only download apps from the official Google Play Store.

Is now generated by AI — and it’s working. Just look at their cloud business stats: Third-quarter earnings totaled $11.4 billion, a 35% increase from the same stretch last year. I wonder how many developers making over $500,000 a year are getting the boot.