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"When your old PC goes over the Windows 10 update cliff, can Windows 11 save it?"

"Geoengineering research may have environmental consequences, so doing it ethically matters."

It's going to be a pain, especially for the large contingent of Windows 10 users on hardware that Windows 11 *could* run on, but it won't run on.

When you do the math, it turns out the sun is still a lot brighter than the background stars even as far out as Pluto.

In the tradition of the Evil Overlord List
"The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you’ve had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy. "For the purposes of what I hope to be a technically and scientifically accurate document, I will define our goal thus: by any means necessary, to render the Earth into a form in which it may no longer be considered a planet. Such forms include, but are most definitely not limited to: two or more planets; any number of smaller asteroids; a quantum singularity; a dust cloud." The site then goes on to list possible methods ranked by feasibility.

I thought the whole chain had closed, but apparently there's one cafe left in Beverly Hills. It's got the same logo and the Kelly's Cappuccino looks right, at least.

""Transformers" are cosmic abominations. Cosmic horror not in the flesh but in the steel. These shape-shifting monstrosities are the stuff HP Lovecraft warned us about in his fictional works of the Eldritch Abominations of the Cthulhu Mythos. The only thing Lovecraft got wrong was not knowing that the abomination of old, in the vast cold void of space that see humanity as nothing more than an ant on the front porch step, are machine."

2009: "My Gmail and Google Apps accounts were hacked recently but I could establish my identity, Google restored access in the next three hours. Here are lessons learned and tips that might prevent your Gmail and other Google Accounts from getting hacked."