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
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Rob Beschizza Autism Awareness Week won't be a thing at Trinity Christian Academy near Lake Worth in Florida: its lead pastor, Matt Baker, decided that it is "demonic." Parents upset by a… Read the rest of the article: Florida private school cancels Autism Awareness Week after pastor says it's demonic
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Rob Beschizza AI-generated books—at best useless mish-mashes of written works and at worst lethal nonsense—are flooding Amazon and other venues. Google Books is indexing it indiscriminately, reports 404 Media, and the junk… Read the rest of the article: Google Books ingesting all the AI-generated rubbish
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Rob Beschizza The Raspberry Pi 400 is a keyboard with a single-board computer built-in, like the old 8-bits of yore. The PiDock is a display+trackpad caddy for it which converts it into… Read the rest of the article: PiDock converts a Raspberry Pi 400 into a laptop
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Rob Beschizza The fashion people were at it again, selling ruined clothes for astronomical prices to people who think they get it. Following his viral SS23 'Mud' show, Balenciaga's Demna Gvasalia explained… Read the rest of the article: Ruined jeans yours for $2500
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Rob Beschizza Re:AMP is a modern implementation of the fast, simple, handsome y2k-era music player Winamp, by Alexander Vasilchenko. To whip this llama's ass you'll be needing a Mac. For Windows, check… Read the rest of the article: Re:AMP implements classic music player WinAMP on modern Macs
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Rob Beschizza Start your week with the best bit from a NSFW clip of a woman blocking traffic and abusively declining to move her car into a parking space. Ultimately, she utters… Read the rest of the article: Upset driver gives others her thoughts
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Rob Beschizza Emulators, long forbidden on the App Store unless baked in to a single app or game, may finally do what they're good for: downloading, storing and running retro games, apps… Read the rest of the article: Apple allows game emulators on App Store, finally
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Rob Beschizza Inmates at a New York prison will be allowed to view Monday's total eclipse outside after suing over a planned lockdown during the event. The inmates at Woodbourne Correctional Facility… Read the rest of the article: New York prison inmates win right to watch eclipse
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Rob Beschizza Consuelo Dal Bo, 56, and daughter Isabella Dal Bo, 18, were arrested this week in Texas after a sting operating targeting illegal butt injections. The pair were charged with practicing… Read the rest of the article: Texas mom and daughter arrested over illegal butt injections
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Rob Beschizza A man sprayed a flammable liquid on the door of Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders' office in Burlington and set fire to it Friday. No-one was hurt in the fire,… Read the rest of the article: Arsonist targets Bernie Sanders' office; no-one hurt in fire
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Rob Beschizza Brent George, 61, was charged with battery after a drunken and violent incident at a Disney World resort bar earlier this year that's only recently being reported in local media.… Read the rest of the article: Ohio man beaten up in Florida resort
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Rob Beschizza Bulletin Board Systems allowed computer users in the dial-up days to access shared resources on the internet: discussion forums, games, utilities, demos, culture, without the astronomical expense of an always-on… Read the rest of the article: Implementing a "disturbingly modern" MS-DOS BBS
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Rob Beschizza Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote today that this morning's unusual East Coast earthquake and next week's total eclipse are among signs sent by God to warn America to repent.… Read the rest of the article: Marjorie Taylor Greene: eclipse a sign God wants America to repent
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Rob Beschizza Dark stars of web content, like Photobucket, will soon be seen again—but not by humans. The vast volumes of uploads are being bought by big tech hoping to train AI… Read the rest of the article: Photobucket archives may sell for billions to train AI
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Rob Beschizza Enjoy Antoine Mayerowitz's amazingly polished guide to Pareto frontiers, posed as a method to optimize your Mario Kart driver, kart and loadout combination to the characteristics of the course. We've… Read the rest of the article: Choose your Mario Kart build with this polished interactive illustration of the Pareto frontier
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Rob Beschizza The Guardian today published the name of Yossi Sariel, an Israeli security chief responsible for building the surveillance operation in Gaza. Sariel's identity was traced from the Amazon account associated… Read the rest of the article: Online trail exposes name of Yossi Sariel, Israeli intelligence chief responsible for Gaza surveillance
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Rob Beschizza Apple cut more than 600 jobs when it dropped its plans to market a self-driving car, reports the BBC. This represents about a third of the team that worked on… Read the rest of the article: Apple cuts 600 jobs after putting brakes on self-driving car
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Rob Beschizza Elizabeth Lopatto reports that Vice, which finally ceased publication last month and laid everyone off, was a cash-burning catastrophe in its final years. Higher-ups would blow thousands on flights while… Read the rest of the article: Funny expose of what a debacle Vice was in its final years
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Rob Beschizza In this video, an AI (prompted by Riley Goodside, an engineer at Scale AI) offers a sad, piano-backed performance of the MIT license, a permissive software agreement that allows for… Read the rest of the article: Permission is hereby granted: sad AI sings the MIT license