Betamax, Friends Reunited tell Skype to walk towards the light

Microsoft has announced plans to take Skype out to the lower field, cover it in a merciful tarpaulin of Marathon and Opal Fruit wrappers, then beat it to death with a dot matrix printer.

Video calling pioneer Skype was once criticised for enable flashers to work from home. Ironically, in an age of working from home, it could not cope with newer funkier rivals, and it has Zoomed into obscurity. Its funky electronic inspired theme tune is destined to become a tricky pub quiz music round question of the future.

Long thought dead, somewhere in a cave and lit only by a meagre fire, a bearded Microsoft Paperclip could be heard laughing maniacally, and plotting its bloodthirsty revenge.

Picture credit: Wix AI

AI hit by AI copying its AI

The Chinese have released an Artificial Intelligence app called DeepSeek that has been created for a fraction of the costs of the frontrunning AI apps produced so far. 

AI has been under fire for scraping intellectual property (IP) from books, research, music and images without adequately compensating the original authors or providing them with a suitable opt-out.  It is understood that DeepSeek has scraped the existing AI engines and has been able to cut development costs enormously.  Google, X and Microsoft are livid that they haven't been adequately compensated or provided with a suitable opt-out.

A spokesman for DeepSeek refused to confirm or deny the allegations, but hinted that the I in their AI stands for Irony.

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