Hotel Chains Accused of Collusion Among “Worst Offenders” of Junk Fees - Accountable US (accountable.us)
Hilton, Wyndham, Hyatt, Omni Hotels, Choice Hotels, and Four Seasons stand accused of exploiting G3 RMS, an artificial intelligence algorithm, to illegally collude in price fixing their room rates, in violation of federal antitrust law. All six hotels are represented on the board of directors of the American Hotel & Lodging...
Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris (www.nbcnews.com)
It is on.
Map of 2000+ lemmy communities (danterious.codeberg.page)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423...
Use eSIM plans on any Android phone with this handy adapter - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
Ex-CIA officer jailed for 10 years after spying for China (www.dw.com)
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was convicted of passing “a large volume” of classified defense information to Chinese spies in 2001. He later worked for the FBI....
This is definitely one of the strangest cash grabs I've ever seen (lemmy.world)
Honkai Star Rail, a free-to-play gacha game (basically, gambling game of chance) in which players spend anywhere from $5 to $10,000 to get characters, gear, equipment… is now releasing a disc version of their game on PlayStation 5. First issue with this is that many people don’t have a disk drive in their PlayStation, and...
Uyghur human rights group calls out UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk for his weak response to China’s genocidal policies (www.saveuighur.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/2778153...
Why is the Zero Hedge unreliable source? (lemm.ee)
After the effort to discuss something on this home-made platform - which should be against the Twitter censorship (so called). I am interested, what are the reasons the people here think in their virtual world, that ZeroHedge.com is unreliable source?...
How can ceramic be both a non stick material and really good friction material? (kbin.earth)
Ceramic coating a car makes water bead right off, but the best brake pads and clutches are also ceramic (aside from carbon ceramic and carbon carbon)...
Malaysia police rescue 402 minors in care homes over abuse claims (www.bbc.com)
Malaysian police have rescued 402 children and teenagers that they suspect were physically and sexually abused across 20 care homes....
Ireland to ban disposable vapes (www.rte.ie)
The sale of disposable vapes is set to be banned under proposals going to Cabinet....
Father of Ohio boy, 11, tells Trump and Vance to stop using son’s death for ‘political gain’ (www.theguardian.com)
Nathan Clark calls Republicans ‘hate-spewing’ for falsely claiming Aiden Clark was murdered by Haitian immigrant
AMD silently launches RX 7800M GPU — mobile Navi 32 with 12GB of VRAM (www.tomshardware.com)
AMD introduces AFMF 2 & VGM tech to boost Ryzen AI 300 CPU gaming performance — AFMF 2 offers up to 78% higher frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 (www.tomshardware.com)
LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW RePOP RELEASE TRAILER (invidious.privacyredirect.com)
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The Shadow Dollar That’s Fueling the Financial Underworld (www.msn.com)
Archived: archive.today/UnNtK...
What are some of your ticks? (kbin.melroy.org)
I have a habit of beginning nearly any other thing with 'So'.
Republicans threaten a government shutdown unless Congress makes it harder to vote (www.vox.com)
Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the electoral college in latest forecast (www.msn.com)
YouTuber Nikocado Avocado’s extreme weight-loss hoax isn’t admirable – it’s fatness being exploited for engagement. (theconversation.com)
Germany is imposing border controls (www.zerohedge.com)
What do you think? Is it positive news, that country is straightening border control?
Malaysian Prime Minister tries to ban public DNS servers with anti-fascist/anti-scam fearmongering (odysee.com)
Trouble In Afghanistan’s Opium Fields: The Taliban War On Drugs. (www.crisisgroup.org)
Former Samsung execs arrested for allegedly using stolen memory tech to build chip factory in China — suspects leaked $3.2B worth of Samsung secrets (www.tomshardware.com)
South Korean police have arrested two former Samsung executives suspected of leaking Samsung secrets worth $3.2 billion to China. The authorities reported that one of the arrested suspects, 66-year-old Mr. Choi, set up a joint venture building chips in China alongside some local officials and served as its CEO (via Bloomberg)....
