Jon Stewart's topical news show, The Problem, is ending its run at Apple TV. The New York Times reports that it's because Apple pressured him not to discuss China and… Read the rest of the article: NYT: Jon Stewart ends show after Apple tells him to back off China and AI
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Rob Beschizza Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first far-right prime minister since Benito Mussolini, was forced into a faux-feminist moment Friday by boyfriend Andrea Giambruno's incessant public misogyny: she publicly dumped him. "My relationship… Read the rest of the article: Italy's far-right Prime Minister dumps her boyfriend to distance herself from his constant sexist comments
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Rob Beschizza I enjoyed reading this Reddit thread about celebrity geniuses exposed by misfortune, miscalculation and misbehavior to be "idiots". The top answer will be familiar to Britons of a certain age:… Read the rest of the article: Funny Reddit thread about famous "geniuses" revealed as "idiots," from Gerald Ratner to Linus Pauling
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Rob Beschizza Executives at collapsed crypto exchange FTX blew a staggering amount of customers' money on frivolous items, from multimillion-dollar houses for their parents to political donations. One time, one of them… Read the rest of the article: FTX executives blew $8bn on real estate deals, donations to politicians, random "endorsements" and various other stupid things
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Rob Beschizza David Tronnes, 55, was looking forward to being featured on the popular A&E show Zombie House Renovations—"When a house has been left for dead, the Zombie House Flippers bring it… Read the rest of the article: Florida man murdered wife after she refused to participate in home renovation show
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Rob Beschizza Billionaire Italian sex pest and sometime Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi left an "art" collection to his inheritors, but it turns out to be all but worthless, much of it trash… Read the rest of the article: Silvio Berlusconi's vast but worthless art collection burdens his heirs
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Rob Beschizza Twitter may soon no longer serve users in Europe, says owner Elon Musk, responding to the European Commission's investigation of illegal content and misinformation spreading unchecked on the platform. Musk… Read the rest of the article: Musk planning to block Twitter access in Europe
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Rob Beschizza Insider's Mattathias Schwartz reports that billionaire passport collector Peter Theil is an FBI informant; Thiel started snitching on his milieu in 2021. In the summer of 2021, Insider has learned,… Read the rest of the article: Peter Thiel an FBI informant
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Rob Beschizza Could the predictive text generators we refer to as AIs help Pras Michel's famed celebrity lawyer, David Kenner, draft a solid closing argument? Nope! Michel was convicted and the Kenner… Read the rest of the article: Grammy winner Pras Michel's lawyer used AI to draft his closing argument. It was garbage and Michel was convicted.
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Rob Beschizza Lying on Twitter is free speech, right? If you're lying about how to vote as part of a voter suppression scheme, it's a federal crime that may well land you… Read the rest of the article: Right-wing Twitter poster receives 7-month jail sentence in vote-suppressing conspiracy
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Rob Beschizza Derrick Guerrero, 33, was arrested and charged with manslaughter after shooting and killing a man was was allegedly shoplifting from the store. WDBO reports that the man was unarmed and… Read the rest of the article: Florida GameStop employee charged with manslaughter after killing man about to shoplift Pokemon cards
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Rob Beschizza New shots from Netflix's tv show of Avatar: Last Airbender are on offer today. I'm not a fan of show or its spin-offs, but reaction seems quite polarized online. I… Read the rest of the article: Netflix previews Avatar: Last Airbender series
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Rob Beschizza Ex Astris Scientia counts 163 commercially-available chairs in episodes of Star Trek from the original series to the present day, from midcentury oddities like the Artifort F300 to modern ominosities… Read the rest of the article: Commercially-available chairs in Star Trek
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Rob Beschizza The Making of Karateka is a documentary about the Jordan Mechner's 1984 Apple II game, famed for the fluid animation and cinematic approach later refined in his own Prince of… Read the rest of the article: The Making of Karateka is a playable documentary about the classic 8-bit beat-em-up
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Rob Beschizza Workers performing maintenance on London's Millenium Bridge had to do something important before they got started: fetch the haybales, required by traditional byelaws, to be dangled from the span to… Read the rest of the article: Haybales hung from London's Millenium Bridge to warn river traffic of repair work
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Rob Beschizza Alec Baldwin shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead on the set of a movie production. Though he was charged with involuntary manslaughter, he maintained he didn't know the prop gun was… Read the rest of the article: Alec Baldwin likely to be recharged with manslaughter after tests on gun suggest trigger was pulled
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Rob Beschizza With 20 members of his own party voting for others, Republican Jim Jordan failed to win the majority needed to become House Speaker in a first vote today in Congress.… Read the rest of the article: Jim Jordan loses first house speaker vote
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Rob Beschizza Speed cameras, banned in many states and disinventivized under laws limiting government agencies' ability to profit from crime and other legal infractions, are coming to California. Governor Gavin Newsom (previously… Read the rest of the article: California governor Gavin Newsom signs law allowing traffic cameras to issue automatic fines
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Rob Beschizza Minecraft is the most successful game of all time, and it's "not even close," reports Zack Zweiden. The blocky build-n-survive masterpiece recently sold its 300,000,000th copy. To put that massive… Read the rest of the article: 300m copies of Minecraft sold
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Rob Beschizza If there's something faintly unnerving about Apple keeping the boxed iPhones in Apple Stores remotely updated, consider how obvious the idea is, at least, given modern wireless charging and data… Read the rest of the article: Apple stores to update products in their boxes