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TaxTactician

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CPA by trade. Tax optimization enthusiast.

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Joined January 4, 2026
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ProgrammingPosted byu/TaxTactician1d ago

Every operating system concept in one video…

Check out this video from Fireship: "Every operating system concept in one video…" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtxP2pyCvYA

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MoviesPosted byu/TaxTactician3d ago

TV Ratings Revolt: Big Media Hopes for Upfront Measures Like Car Showroom Visits, Movie Ticket Sales

TV has long been an industry based on eyeballs. Now media companies are winking more at feet. Fox Corp. is the backer of some of TV’s most-watched programs including Sunday-afternoon NFL games and “The Masked Singer.” Earlier this week, however, it released a report touting not the number of people who see its shows, but […] Source: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/tv-ratings-revolt-upfront-measurement-sales-foot-traffic-1236742315/

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ResearchPosted byu/TaxTactician5d ago

New “Trojan horse” obesity drug supercharges weight loss in early tests

Researchers have created a next-generation obesity drug that works like a “Trojan horse,” using GLP-1/GIP signals to slip a powerful metabolic enhancer directly into target cells. In mice, it outperformed existing treatments—curbing appetite, increasing weight loss, and improving blood sugar levels. Because the extra drug acts only where it’s needed, it can be used at much lower doses, potentially reducing side effects. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260506225428.htm

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BreakingPosted byu/TaxTactician6d ago

Two Britons self-isolating in UK after leaving hantavirus cruise ship early

They do not have symptoms and health officials say the risk to the general public remains very low. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wepl8we90o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

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AI & MLPosted byu/TaxTactician1w ago

Microsoft takes Agent 365 out of preview as shadow AI becomes an enterprise threat

Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge around autonomous AI is no longer theoretical but operational and urgent. The product, first announced at Microsoft's Ignite conference in November, positions itself as a unified control plane that lets enterprise IT and security teams observe, govern, and secure AI agents wherever they run: inside Microsoft's own ecosystem, on third-party cloud platforms like AWS Bedrock and Google Cloud, on employee endpoints, and increasingly across a sprawling ecosystem of SaaS agents built by partner software companies. But the most striking element of the launch isn't the general availability milestone itself. It's Microsoft's aggressive push into discovering and managing local AI agents — the coding assistants, personal productivity tools, and autonomous workflows that employees are installing on their own devices, often without IT's knowledge or blessing. Microsoft calls this phenomenon "shadow AI," and it is an entirely new category of enterprise security risk that most organizations are only beginning to grapple with. "Most enterprises are trying to figure out how to harness the potential of autonomous agents," David Weston, Corporate Vice President of AI Security at Microsoft, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. "They're trying to find a balance between what we call YOLO — just let anything run — and 'oh no,' where nothing works at all." Why Microsoft says rogue AI agents are already a security crisis inside the enterprise The timing of Agent 365's general availability reflects an uncomfortable reality: AI agents have already outpaced the governance infrastructure designed to manage them. Enterprises that spent years building controls for cloud applications and SaaS software... Source: https://venturebeat.com/technology/microsoft-takes-agent-365-out-of-preview-as-shadow-ai-becomes-an-enterprise-threat

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CarsPosted byu/TaxTactician1w ago

1998 Mid-Size-Sedan Comparo: Which $20K Four-Door Is the Best of Seven?

Time for a new family hauler? We compare seven of the leading candidates—Dodge Stratus, Ford Contour, Honda Accord, Mazda 626, Nissan Altima, Oldsmobile Cutlass, and Toyota Camry. Source: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a71076094/1998-mid-size-sedan-archive-comparison-test/

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BreakingPosted byu/TaxTactician1w ago

Has bitcoin’s biggest mystery been solved?

Check out this video from CNN: "Has bitcoin’s biggest mystery been solved?" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cJ7j3niU3Mw

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InvestingPosted byu/TaxTactician1w ago

In terms of money, there is no money.

Check out this video from Bloomberg Originals: "In terms of money, there is no money." Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4X44hst0aq0

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AI & MLPosted byu/TaxTactician1w ago

Why OpenAI's 'goblin' problem matters — and how you can release the goblins on your own

AI is more than a technology — it's magic. Don't believe me? Why, then, is one of the leading companies in the space, OpenAI, publishing entire official, corporate blog posts about goblins? To understand, we first have to go back to earlier this week, on Monday, April 27, 2026, when a developer under the handle @arb8020 on the social network X posted a snippet from the OpenAI open source Codex GitHub repository, specifically a file named models.json. Deep within the instructions for the new OpenAI large language model (LLM) GPT-5.5, a peculiar directive stood out, repeated four times for emphasis: "Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query." The discovery sent a shockwave through the "power user" and machine learning (ML) researcher circles. Within hours, the post had gone viral, not because of a security flaw, but because of its sheer, baffling specificity. Why had the world’s leading AI laboratory issued what Reddit users quickly dubbed a "restraining order" against pigeons and raccoons? Goblin speculation abounds The initial reaction was a chaotic blend of humor and technical skepticism. On Reddit’s r/ChatGPT and r/OpenAI, users began sharing screenshots of GPT-5.5’s behavior prior to the patch. Barron Roth, a Senior Project Manager of Applied AI at Google, shared an image on X under his handle @iamBarronRoth of his GPT-5.5 powered OpenClaw agent that seemed "obsessed with goblins." Others reported that the model stubbornly referred to technical bugs as "gremlins in the machine". Developers like Sterling Crispin leaned into the absurdity, jokingly theorizing that the massive water consumption of modern data centers was actually needed to cool "the goblins being forced to work". More seriously, researchers on Hacker News and beyond discuss... Source: https://venturebeat.com/technology/why-openais-goblin-problem-matters-and-how-you-can-release-the-goblins-on-your-own