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Whatever the hell these trading algorithms were doing on November 20, they definitely weren’t ahead of the curve on investor knowledge and belief.

Yup. But you’d need to keep your head out of the AI bubble’s arse to notice that. :D

But the AI or algorithm didn’t catch it - humans did just fine with that part.

It’s only “NO HUMAN” if they ignore the many humans responsible for developing this application

Or the fact that humans already posted a video about this circular financing a month earlier

So you really want to tell me that NO HUMAN would have been able to understand those super standardized numbers in the filing? Sure man.

Gamers Nexus managed to figure it out a month earlier using good old-fashioned HI.

You are correct. Gamers Nexus did a video on this a month earlier.

On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history

Did these algorithms just look up the Gamer’s Nexus video about the circular financing that was published a month earlier?

You could always disable it. Just not in the OS settings - you had to open the Search window, go to the cog menu and open settings there.

But regardless, I’m still talking about seeing this issue on a fresh install. That’s definitely not something that happens because I fiddle with settings.

In that case either I’m the luckiest bastard on the planet (again: 10-20k users all around the world since Windows 10 dropped and nobody has ever mentioned that problem), or maybe it’s a regional thing that only happens in the US, or something. But then why didn’t my US users complain?

no, mac sucks

It sucks the same as Windows or Linux, just in different ways. We’re used to the way Linux sucks, I’m used to the Windows sucks, we’re both not used to the way Mac sucks, apparently.

only advantage of mac is its stability

Which is exactly why I recommend it to someone who’s unreasonable angry at Windows. They’ll have something new to learn, but something that is relatively stable (not as given as it used to be with MacOS 26).

Linux is weird. Linux is finicky. Linux breaks because you looked at it wrong, or because there was a full Moon while you were eating PB&J. If someone is infuriated by something they can literally turn off in settings, they’ll be completely drowned in anguish if they switch to Linux.

The ability to reason and extrapolate. Something that computers very much did not have until very recently.

Being able to calculate (even if it’s logical gates) is not intelligence.

AI is very specifically defined as “Artificial Intelligence”. A quite complex calculator (devices possible in the 50s) is not an AI.

To be fair, the current tech we call “AI” is not really AI either. We’re a couple of decades away from that still.

RegEdit update to kill the websearch in it.

Maybe you have issues with your OS because you keep doing things the wrong way?

Why are you disabling this in the Registry instead of turning it off through settings?

None of the Win11 Home, nor Pro instances I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot) had that issue.

I did notice, however, that people complaining about were going very quiet very fast when asked if they used a “debloater” or some such…

It doesn’t exist “since about 1950”, mate. It’s actually hilarious just thinking about the sheer volume of transistors they’d need to do the basic AI operations back then. :D

The concept exists for a long while, sure, but by 2010 we’ve only had “deep learning” as the first stepping stone towards “something like” AI.

It most definitely wasn’t possible on the home PC hardware, and it would be absolutely ridiculous to have an “AI” doing this sort of thing, when it can be achieved for a marginal fraction of the resources with a simple weighing and sorting algorithm…

Personalised sorting is very much not AI. Unless you’re suggesting we’ve had AI since the early 90s?

Ahh, maybe that’s why! Interesting! Also interesting how people end up in that situation and then complain about it online…

Turn it off in settings. Open Search, click the three dots menu, “Search settings” and turn off “Let search apps show results”.

If you did and they still show up, your OS is busted and you should reinstall. Pro tip: don’t use any “debloaters”, they cause all kinds of headaches.

EDIT: if this is infuriating to the point you want to switch, skip Linux and go to Mac. Source: Linux user for over a year.

My point was that the only time I ever see anything like this happen, is when people complain about it online.

I’ve managed around 10-20k Windows devices since Windows 10 came out. I’ve never seen a web search take priority over apps search. I’m honestly baffled as to where people are getting these screenshots from.

As a software dev I wonder how does this even happen?

As a guy who runs the Windows environment at work and doesn’t see any of that shit at all - neither at work, nor on my extended family’s devices - I also wonder, how does this even happen?

Or… just turn it off in Search settings…?

Like keeping X cause you think you can change it from a white supremacist site.

I still lurk on Twitter. Calling it a “white supremacist site” is just… Silly. The whole point of social media is that it’s the users who create content.

I’m seeing a lot of right-wing fundamentalists being clapped by sane people. The only time I see any nazi/fascist/supremacist content is when it’s getting ratio’d or just ridiculed.

I’m not saying this content isn’t there, but I’m saying there’s still a lot of people fighting the good fight. Packing up your toys and going home is not really a method for anything other than getting completely marginalised, IMO.