microsoft The man behind Microsoft's Clippy shares its backstory Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Microsoft employs a giant plush Clippy whose performer has a large Clippy tattoo Cory Doctorow

video games Transform your desktop into Windows 98 and fight monsters in Desktop Survivors 98 Gail Sherman

Weird Xbox unveils extremely annoying AI to help you get better at games Grant St. Clair

Technology Microsoft finally putting Skype out of our misery Ellsworth Toohey

News AI's energy draw adds to global climate issues Jason Weisberger

video games A game where virtual friendship turns nightmarish: KinitoPET's psychological horror experience Gail Sherman

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Last Week Tonight tackles the AI conundrum Jason Weisberger

microsoft Microsoft's Cortana is sleeping with the fishes Séamus Bellamy

security Evil Clippy: a tool for making undetectable malicious Microsoft Office docs Cory Doctorow

Business Blame Big Data for CVS's endless miles of receipts Cory Doctorow

happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow

trump Microsoft employees pissed over company's connection to ICE Séamus Bellamy

law Debullshitifying Microsoft's smear campaign against the recycler it helped send to prison Cory Doctorow

books Erotic ebooks about copyright notices, Clippy and Tetris blocks Cory Doctorow

music BWAAAAP! Inception button makes everything dramatic Andrea James

offworld Play it now: RadOS Leigh Alexander

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