When Iowa decided to allow religious displays in its Capitol building, the U.S. Constitution obliged it to allow those of any religion, not just the Christian sects favored by officials… Read the rest of the article: Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol destroyed by upset Christian man
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Rob Beschizza Police have no right to privacy when executing their public duties, and bodycams were supposed to keep everyone honest and accountable: both the cops and those they were interacting with.… Read the rest of the article: How cops and politicians neutralized bodycams, whose footage is now routinely kept secret by NYPD and other forces
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Rob Beschizza The Federal Communications Commission voted yesterday to ban early termination fees, charged by cable and satellite companies to prevent customers from quitting: "Consumers are tired of these junk fees," FCC… Read the rest of the article: FCC votes to ban termination fees for quitting cable and satellite services
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Rob Beschizza The upload here doesn't do justice to this incredible new shot of Cassiopeia A, one of the most spectacular supernoval remnants to be found in the sky. Imaged by the… Read the rest of the article: Webb Space Telescope offers high-resolution view of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
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Rob Beschizza Twitch's plainly-sexist ban on sexiness is to be relaxed: the streaming site's new Sexual Content Guidelines will allow for "artistic nudity," including nudity, drawn or sculpted "fully-exposed female-presenting breasts and/or… Read the rest of the article: Streaming site Twitch to allow "artistic nudity" and other sexy things
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Rob Beschizza The financial situation at Twitter is dire, as Bloomberg News reports it, with the company expecting to make only $2.5bn in ad revenue in 2023. This is "a significant slump… Read the rest of the article: Twitter's ad revenue fell $1.5bn this year
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Rob Beschizza Harris Elias had no alcohol in his breath or his blood when he was pulled over in 2020 in Loveland, Colorado, but was arrested for DUI all the same. Though… Read the rest of the article: Colorado town to pay $400k settlement to man falsely arrested for DUI
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Rob Beschizza CP/M is an operating system dating to the mid-1970s that found its niche giving cheap 8-bit home computers the flexibility, if not the power, of expensive workstations. The Brother SuperPowerNote… Read the rest of the article: 50-year-old operating system ported to 30-year-old digital typewriter
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Rob Beschizza Dropbox is testing AI tools—an experiment that involves OpenAI getting access to users' documents and files if you start futzing around with the AI tools. You can opt out by… Read the rest of the article: Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out
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Rob Beschizza Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by SpaceX, will not receive a hoped-for $900M subsidy that was already on the chopping block. It failed to deliver promised speeds to users,… Read the rest of the article: SpaceX loses $900m Starlink subsidy
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Rob Beschizza Once home to vintage and handmade wonders, Etsy grew into the same dropshipped mass-produced landfill stuffing that everywhere else sells. And now it shrinks, laying off 11% of its workforce… Read the rest of the article: Etsy lays off 11% of workforce
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Rob Beschizza Civil war and the collapse of the American republic: when kids discuss it on social media, it's cause for panic and political writhing about whether the First Amendment needs new… Read the rest of the article: Trailer for A24's movie about the coming U.S. civil war
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Rob Beschizza Earlier this year, Grant St. Clair reported that E3 was dead. Now it's official: the game industry's most sprawling and overwhelming marketing show permanently done for. It had already lost… Read the rest of the article: Gaming expo E3 dead for good
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Rob Beschizza Mike Masnick reports on a depressingly frequent story: Google wiping a customer's account, destroying their data, with no human support to appeal to and only vague and evasive messages to… Read the rest of the article: Google still deleting user data without recourse
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Rob Beschizza Apple now requires a court order to hand over customer push notifications to law enforcement, plugging a privacy hole and aligning its policy with Google's. It hasn't announced the change,… Read the rest of the article: Apple now requires a court order before it lets cops see your push notifications
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Rob Beschizza YouTube users are noticing a sudden increase in the number of scammy ads on the platform, accompanied by distinterested moderation: a deepfake Elon pitching trading bots is the example bubbling… Read the rest of the article: YouTube accused of refusing to remove scam ads featuring deepfaked Elon Musk: "We found that the ad doesn't go against Google's policies"
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Rob Beschizza Brian Merchant hails the worst tech of 2023, an anti-gift guide for the holiday season that "sits atop an intersection of so many discouraging trendlines that I can't help but… Read the rest of the article: The worst tech you can buy in 2023
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Rob Beschizza ncube is a single-serving site with a hypercube in it, smoothly prolapsing in the three dimensions that your screen can display. There's a panel with sliders that let you set… Read the rest of the article: Zone out watching and configuring hyperdimensional cubes
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Rob Beschizza In 2020, David linked to a site that promised to automatically self-destruct if ever it went 24 hours without someone adding a message to its guestbook. The creator, FemmeAndroid, posted… Read the rest of the article: "This site will self-destruct" finally self-destructs after no-one signs guestbook for 24 hours
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Rob Beschizza Last month, Sports Illustrated removed various articles after the authors were exposed as AI-generated personas and whose text was seemingly AI-generated itself—it was hard to be certain, because the material… Read the rest of the article: CEO and others fired in corporate "bloodbath" after Sports Illustrated publishes drivelous AI-generated content