The pardon of Changpeng Zhao, founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, drew scrutiny after lobbyists were paid approximately $800,000 before the pardon was granted.
According to Forbes, Zhao is the richest Canadian and the 21st-richest person in the world, with a net worth estimated at $88.0 billion as of October 2025
Literally peanuts. Paying bribes this cheap it’s a no brainer. Compared to the median American net worth it’s like paying $2.
False, italian has a word for toe that is separate from the fingers of the feet (alluce)
Don’t worry, Microsoft is going to let ai rewrite 1 million LOC from C to Rust per month per programmer and this will dramatically increase the quality https://www.thurrott.com/dev/330980/microsoft-to-replace-all-c-c-code-with-rust-by-2030
Unironically: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1997279325876367719 (the biggest asshole in the world says that it’s in Europe best interest to disband and become many small states with no international influence, and Medvedev approves the message
Like a 4 years old: “but Mommy! At the kindergarten Kim said that he got an air carrier! I want one too!”
When I see something like this, I agree with my country 72% taxation on gas. If they had to pay $8 per gallon like us, they wouldn’t buy those monsters
Well, I think she’s meaning about the bribes, it was never this public that the government was on sale, with public announcement of every payment
Look at this video from 4 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGHokrbjlz8
I updated even on the beta version and at the beginning I was like “well it’s a beta, surely they will fix it”… Then it launched with the broken taskbar and I thought “surely this will be patched in a week” - it took TWO YEARS
The taskbar on windows 11 for the first two years didn’t support dragging and dropping on icons or opened applications. It was completely unusable
On one side I feel like “cool, they managed to find a spy on this sophisticated way”
On the other side I’m thinking what kind of intrusive keylogging malware did they install on all their employees laptops…
The ironic part is that they’re the only country of the world with a drawing of an hydroelectric plant on their emblem
When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge
It was working fine in windows 95. Suddenly all programmers became incompetent and can’t handle something like that?
In the launch version of windows 11 and for over TWO YEARS it didn’t even support drag&drop. It was working fine even on windows me
Tried that browser on Linux. It crashes when you save a file. It doesn’t let you click on the URL bar to edit it (only keyboard works). “If it compiles, it ships, no testing needed”
Even cars
Ford is cancelling their electric pickup because they will convert their ev battery factory in a factory that makes batteries for datacenters
Like Ford stopping producing batteries for their own cars (byd says thanks) in order to convert the factory for datacenter-class batteries
Because Elmo is famous for his donations and philanthropy…
TIL there’s a new operating system that came out less than a year ago but already captured 5% of the market, passing ChromeOS and Linux
This stat is rubbish because they’re basing it on web views, and the millions of ai scraping bots are influencing it
We laugh about it but there are lots of idiots that will pay for it
Just the other day I saw the frozen hamburger patties in the supermarket were made with 62% soy, then meat
Cost cutting measures…