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
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Rob Beschizza James Carter's Starring the Computer collects appearances of home computers in television shows and movies. The Commodore 64 is well-represented, but my childhood haunt the Amstrad CPC isn't quite so… Read the rest of the article: Appearances of home computers in movies and TV shows
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Rob Beschizza Bandcamp laid off about half its employees yesterday, according to reports from those affected posted on social media, following the company's sale to music licensing platform Songtradr. In an email… Read the rest of the article: Bandcamp lays off half its workforce
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Rob Beschizza Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway on the Dutch island of Aruba, says he will reveal details of her death… Read the rest of the article: Natalee Holloway suspect to reveal details of her death in plea deal
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Rob Beschizza U.S. Wildlife Service officials report that they are removing 21 entries from the list of endangered species because they are extinct. Here's the full list, mostly birds and mussels, such… Read the rest of the article: 21 species removed from endangered list because they are extinct
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Rob Beschizza Cory Doctorow, co-founder of this very website, has a new audiobook in the works: The Lost Cause. He's self-financing it through Kickstarter, making it feasible to produce without caving to… Read the rest of the article: Cory Doctorow's next audiobook, The Lost Cause, launches on Kickstarter