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Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job (www.cnn.com)
Encrypted email provider Proton has built its own CAPTCHA service | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Bank of America Ordered to Pay $250 Million Over Wrongful Fees, Fake Accounts (www.wsj.com)
Ah yes more big bank shenanigans…
The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026 (www.theverge.com)
Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah killed by Israeli tank, investigation finds (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found....
Thousands of tons of dead sardines wash ashore in northern Japan (apnews.com)
Philips Hue will soon require an account to use its app — here’s what that means (www.theverge.com)
According to its current privacy policy, with an account, Hue gets access to the configuration of your system to provide the right software updates to the devices. It can only use your data for marketing or share it with third parties if you provide additional consent....
OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away (www.pcgamer.com)
James Webb Space Telescope celebrates 1st year of science with jaw-dropping view of cosmic nursery (photo) (www.space.com)
Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach (www.pcgamer.com)
The headline itself made this worth sharing
you have nothing! nothing to threaten me with! (sopuli.xyz)
Elon Musk goes low against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads spat intensifies (www.theguardian.com)
“Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network”...
For all that is holy, DO NOT use TurboTax!!
I haven’t used TurboTax recently, but I just received a check from my state’s government saying that they’ve settled with Intuit over charging customers tax return services that should have been free....
No shooter, no injuries reported at US Capitol after 'bad call,' police say (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Police found no shooter and no one injured after reports of a possible active shooter in the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday after a possible “bad call,” Washington Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Hugh Carew said....
Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries (www.theverge.com)
this email confirms you have unsubscribed from all our emails! (sopuli.xyz)
John Romero: Happy 30th birthday, DOOM. [...] Thank you for playing our games, and thank you for keeping DOOM alive, all these many years. (nitter.net)
Happy 30th birthday, DOOM. I’m grateful to have been a part of this incredible team. Thank you for playing our games, and thank you for keeping DOOM alive, all these many years....
Haptic suits give deaf concertgoers a way to experience music again (www.pcgamer.com)
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
lol. has anyone found ways to optimize starfield for their pc, like reducing stuttering, FPS drops, etc?
Focus: United Airlines grapples with pilots avoiding the captain's chair (www.reuters.com)
Nextcloud at home 🏠 - Anyone have experience setting up your own cloud server? (nextcloud.com)
If so, how was the overall experience? Looks like a much better alternative than completely relying on Google Drive and you can't beat the price (free!)
Google Agrees to $93 Million Settlement in California's Location-Privacy Lawsuit (thehackernews.com)
“Last November, it agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle similar complaints by 40 U.S. states. Then in January 2023, it agreed to pay a total of $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits brought by Indiana and Washington, D.C....
Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form' (tech.slashdot.org)
Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses. From a report: In an interview with Fortune, CEO and founder Andy Yen made clear that although the new feature uses blockchain, the key technology...
Truck bloat is killing us, new crash data reveals (www.theverge.com)
Amazon to Run Ads in Prime Video Shows and Movies (www.wsj.com)
Oh boy, more enshittification