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The dumbest things that happened in tech this year

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Despite major tech developments this year, the industry produced several absurd moments that highlighted Silicon Valley's quirky side. A bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg sued Meta's CEO after Facebook suspended his business page for impersonation, while an engineer named Soham Parekh simultaneously worked for multiple tech companies before getting exposed. Other bizarre incidents included Sam Altman facing criticism for misusing expensive olive oil, Mark Zuckerberg allegedly hand-delivering soup to recruit OpenAI employees, and Kohler falsely claiming their $599 toilet camera had end-to-end encryption.

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