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Bill Gates once strapped on a trench coat, picked up a shotgun, and blasted a demon to sell you Windows ninety-five. A recently resurfaced promotional video from nineteen ninety-three shows the Microsoft co-founder in a Doom-themed segment, deadpanning "Who do you want to execute today?" — a riff on the company's famous tagline. It's a strange artifact from an era when tech giants were still figuring out how to talk to gamers, and honestly, it holds up as one of the more surreal marketing moments in Silicon Valley history.
Shifting to something a little more practical — a new free cloud-based tool called Node Cartel is pitching itself as a central dashboard for managing AI agents running across multiple hosts. As teams deploy more autonomous workflows, the coordination problem is real, and a lightweight management layer could matter. Worth watching to see whether the community finds it genuinely useful or just another layer of abstraction.
And finally, your Wi-Fi router almost certainly has a guest network feature you've been ignoring. Beyond keeping visitors off your main network, it's a smart way to isolate smart home devices, which are notoriously vulnerable and probably shouldn't share a subnet with your laptop anyway.
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