Retailers like to blame shoplifting for their business woes (even if they must eventually admit they lied) and media, desperate for stories of America drowning in crime, are generally eager… Read the rest of the article: Failing dollar stores blame shoplifters. No-one's buying it anymore.
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Rob Beschizza Allen Weisselberg, former Chief Financial Officer for the Trump Organization, is off to jail for five months after admitting he lied to protect his old boss—in court, twice. The double… Read the rest of the article: Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg gets another 5 months inside for lying on stand
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Rob Beschizza Botox is the same neurotoxin than causes botulism, prepared carefully to make it safe to inject into people's faces. But what if we saved a buck or two and just… Read the rest of the article: Back alley Botox a bad idea, officials warn
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Rob Beschizza Francesca Gino, a Harvard professor already alleged to have used fabricated data in her ethics research, is also now accused of plagiarism. Passages from a paper and two books by… Read the rest of the article: Ethics expert Francesca Gino, already under fire over fabricated data, accused of plagiarism
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Rob Beschizza If graphical demos generated by extremely short snippets of code tend to be correspondingly brief, Remnants by Alcatraz is startlingly extensive. I just can't believe this somehow emerges from 256… Read the rest of the article: 256 bytes of code generate this spooky fractal city
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Rob Beschizza President Biden said today he was "considering" ending the prosecution of Julian Assange following a request by the Australian government. Biden's exact words were "we're considering it" when asked about… Read the rest of the article: U.S. may drop Assange prosecution
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Rob Beschizza Opaque, confusing, and deceptive: getting service providers to honestly describe their broadband internet "plans" is such a lost cause that the Federal Communications Commission is imposing "nutrition labels" on them… Read the rest of the article: Broadband plans to get "nutrition labels"
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Rob Beschizza The diary of Ashley Biden, daughter of president Joe Biden, was stolen and sold to right-wing activists. The thief is off to jail for a month after pleading guilty to… Read the rest of the article: One month in jail for woman who stole Biden daughter's diary and sold it to chuds
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Rob Beschizza Boeing's 777 and 787 Dreamliner are under new scrutiny after a whistleblower claimed that there are undisclosed flaws in their manufacturing that "could become catastrophic as the airplanes age." Sam… Read the rest of the article: FAA investigating Boeing jets after engineer claims they are flawed
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Rob Beschizza Earbuds always struck me as the most throwaway gadget and I never liked buying them knowing they were doomed to the trashcan. Fairphone, the Dutch cellphone company, is making wireless,… Read the rest of the article: Fairbuds: wireless, repairable earbuds with replaceable batteries
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Rob Beschizza Two railway workers in California were fired by Caltrain after the company realized they had quietly converted unused offices into secret apartments to avoid the area's brutal commutes. The two… Read the rest of the article: Railway workers built secret apartments in train stations
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Rob Beschizza I wasn't expecting the Virtual Colossus to be implemented in three-dimensional space as a browser-based first-person experience. It's a little nightmarish, even, clacking rhythmically, insistently, ominously. And you need to… Read the rest of the article: Tinker with a virtual Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer
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Rob Beschizza The floating world of media punditry is learning all about Donald Trump again, from scratch, in stories with headlines like "Why Trump Media stock is subject to extreme turbulence." The… Read the rest of the article: Trump Social stock sinks to IPO level
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Rob Beschizza Scented thermal paste is a thing, now, and it comes in plastic syringes with doe-eyed anime characters and a variety of vegetal flavors. Joanna Nelius: Are scents a practical feature… Read the rest of the article: Cool your hot chips with scented thermal paste
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Rob Beschizza Sadly, the periodical implied by the headline here doesn't exist, but maybe it should: a local charity dealing with pollution reports an interesting haul this year. voodoo dolls, whoopie cushions,… Read the rest of the article: The New Jersey Review of Beach Trash
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Rob Beschizza Jesse E Kipf, 39, on the hook for $100k in child support, faked his death and even created a fake death certificate for himself. The plan didn't work out: Kipf… Read the rest of the article: Man faked own death to avoid paying child support
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Rob Beschizza Norfolk Southern, operator of the train that derailed near Palestine, Ohio in February 2023, has agreed to pay a $600m settlement to end a class action lawsuit filed against it.… Read the rest of the article: Norfolk Southern to pay $600m settlement over toxic train derailment in Ohio
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Rob Beschizza Staff turning up to the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts, found the building had been damaged by fire the night before. No-one was hurt and bomb technicians confirmed the device… Read the rest of the article: No-one hurt in Massachusetts Satanic Temple bombing
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Rob Beschizza CNC News reports that Viaguard Accu-Metrics sold paternity tests that it knew were inaccurate and did so for years. Harvey Tenenbaum, the owner of Viaguard Accu-Metrics, told a CBC producer… Read the rest of the article: Canadian DNA lab sold paternity tests it knew were inaccurate
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Rob Beschizza Traditional wheel-locking boots being easy to remove in the age of 40v cordless angle grinders and the like, New York Police Department is switching to windshield-covering boots instead. "Good luck… Read the rest of the article: NYPD debuts windshield boot to trap parking offenders