Classic computer mags Maximum PC and Mac Life are going out of print. Harry McCracken, writing now for Technologizer–a website–heralds the End of the Computer Magazine Era. But I'm not… Read the rest of the article: Mainstream computer mags, RIP
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Rob Beschizza Christopher Mims poses that the reason that Apple remains top of the pile in the U.S. phone business is the used-carification of the market. "It's not just lavish marketing and… Read the rest of the article: WSJ: Apple dominates smartphone market because it supports old phones and no-one wants low-end Android models
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Rob Beschizza Game developer and publisher Sega is to buy Rovio, maker of the "Angry Birds" game series and related merch including a successful movie. The price tag is $1bn, reports the… Read the rest of the article: Angry Birds sold to Sega for $1bn
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Rob Beschizza Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, an Air National Guardsman from Tennessee, chanced across rentahitman.com and tried to sign up despite it glowing like the sun. He submitted his ID, his resume,… Read the rest of the article: An Air National Guardsman thought a parody website for hitmen was real and tried to get work. Turns out he was messaging the FBI.
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Rob Beschizza Police in Massachusetts arrested seven men this weekend and charged them with running a catalytic converter theft ring covering much of the state and New Hampshire too. The angle-ground revenues… Read the rest of the article: "Crew" specializing in catalytic converter thefts busted after stealing 470 of them
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Rob Beschizza Montana lawmakers banned Tik Tok late Friday, demanding that tech companies prevent it from being downloaded in the state. Welcome the new poster child for stupid, ill-considered, posturing laws that… Read the rest of the article: Montana passes ban on Tik Tok, but how will it enforce it?
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Rob Beschizza Patrick McCaughey III, was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment Friday for using a stolen riot shield to crush a police officer. Its the second-longest sentence so far handed down to… Read the rest of the article: Prison for Capitol Hill rioter who took riot shield from cops and used it against them
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Rob Beschizza With Twitter itself under the control of a wealthy reactionary twerp, the right-wing alternatives are withering for good. Parler reports that it has "Temporarily Shut Down" and is being sold:… Read the rest of the article: Conservative Twitter clone Parler is sold and shut down to be "revamped"
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Rob Beschizza By far the best thing to come out of the entire MAGA movement, this marvelously unpleasant political ad highlights Trump rival Ron DeSantis's alleged habit of scooping pudding out the… Read the rest of the article: Trump ad targets DeSantis's gross eating habits: "Pudding fingers"
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Rob Beschizza The BBC reports that "staff cuts" are responsible for pro-Russian and pro-China trolls and bots running "unchecked" on Twitter. It strikes me that this editorializes a cause that may have… Read the rest of the article: Russian and Chinese state propaganda "unchecked" on Twitter
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Rob Beschizza A pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting at Walgreens was pursued to her car by a staff member. She, or another person with her, sprayed him with mace. He pulled a… Read the rest of the article: Pregnant shoplifting suspect shot by Walgreens staffer
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Rob Beschizza Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a near-total ban on abortion into law after the state's legislators passed it this week. The law bans abortion after the 6th week of pregnancy.… Read the rest of the article: Ron DeSantis signs Florida's near-total ban on abortion
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Rob Beschizza Following NPR yesterday, PBS is also quitting Twitter after it was tagged as government-funded. "PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no… Read the rest of the article: PBS joins NPR in quitting Twitter
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Rob Beschizza Joshua McLemore, a man suffering from severe mental illness, was left for 20 days in the Indiana jail cell where he died of malnutrition. When they took him in, during… Read the rest of the article: Indiana jail guards left schizophrenic man naked in cell until he died. It took 20 days.
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Rob Beschizza Germany's Nazi past means it now has strict restrictions on Nazi rhetoric, symbols, antisemitism and hate speech in general. Elon Musk, while indifferent to free speech in general, made a… Read the rest of the article: Twitter has a problem with Germany's anti-Nazi laws
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Rob Beschizza Fox News illegally withheld evidence in the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit filed against it by Dominion Systems, the maker of voting machines that Fox's presenters falsely and knowingly claimed were rigged.… Read the rest of the article: Judge sanctions Fox News' lawyers for lying about evidence in Dominion case
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Rob Beschizza Prettypegs and Superfront [via Hacker News] make Ikea bits you can put on your Ikea furniture to make it look nicer and impress friends who don't know a Malm when… Read the rest of the article: Upgrade Ikea furniture with nice knobs and legs
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Rob Beschizza County commissioners in Llano, Texas, wanted to remove various books from its public library, ranging from one book describing the Ku Klux Klan as terrorists to kids' fare such as… Read the rest of the article: Texas county may close public library entirely after judge rules it can't ban books
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Rob Beschizza Morale at Meta is suffering under layoffs, absentee leadership and "bad bets", reports the New York Times. The "year of efficiency", as Mark Zuckerberg euphemized, is sinking in. Employees at… Read the rest of the article: "Devastated morale" at Meta after layoffs and Zuckerberg's "bad bets"
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Rob Beschizza The Moscow Times reports that Russia's workforce lost 1.3M young people last year. If it invites the question "I wonder where they went?" the answer is the obvious one: they're… Read the rest of the article: Russia lost 1.3 million "young workers" last year