TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000 (en.wikipedia.org)
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)
Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips (arstechnica.com)
Sony Xperia 10 VI smartphone review: Compact, lightweight, waterproof, and with remarkable endurance (and audio jack) (www.notebookcheck.net)
Scaling Variant Analysis // Going Beyond Grep (goingbeyondgrep.com)
TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo's Pietà statue in St. Peter's Basilica wielding a geologist's hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead". Pri (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo’s Pietà statue in St. Peter’s Basilica wielding a geologist’s hammer and shouting, “I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead”. Prior to this, he had moved to Rome intending to be recognised as Christ by the Pope.
Black Hat USA 2024 | Briefings Schedule (www.blackhat.com)
Links to Black Hat talks that include the slides.
Gruesome find in North Korean ‘ghost ship’ washed ashore in Japan (www.news.com.au)
‘Another day of horror’: UN rights office condemns Israeli strikes at Gazan school (news.un.org)
At around 4:30am on Saturday, a mosque inside Al Tabaeen School was struck by the Israeli Forces “at least three times”, the UN rights office, OHCHR, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a statement, adding that the attacks were “conducted with apparent disregard for the high rate of civilian fatalities”....
Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies....
Trump Media reports $16 million loss for quarter as revenue falls (www.cnbc.com)
Payday 3 fully reveals its first free new heist and kicks off 50% sale (www.pcgamesn.com)
Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago (apnews.com)
Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.”...
What's the Safest & Most Trusted Site to Download Pirate Streaming Apps? (torrentfreak.com)
Russia fighting intense battles against major Ukrainian incursion (www.reuters.com)
Russia imposes security regime on border regions...
Let's discuss: 8-bit Era Games (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
Egyptian Olympic wrestler arrested for alleged sexual assault in Paris (www.independent.co.uk)
Ukraine justifies Kursk attack in first acknowledgment of incursion into Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Zelenskiy aide says ‘root cause of any escalation’, including into Kursk, is Moscow’s ‘unequivocal aggression’...
French 'kleptomaniac' gets suspended sentence for massive wine theft. (www.rfi.fr)
Skin infections and hepatitis spread as Gazans resort to drinking and bathing in contaminated water (www.nbcnews.com)
USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation (www.wired.com)
OnePlus Open Apex Edition launched in India (gadgetsavailable.com)
The OnePlus Open Apex Edition has been officially launched in India. The smartphone comes in new configurations and with new software features. The Apex Edition has 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of internal storage....
Utah’s famed ‘Double Arch’ geographical feature collapses (www.theguardian.com)
Park rangers suspect changing water levels and erosion to blame for the collapse of the popular tourist attraction...
Arizona prosecutors asked grand jurors not to indict Trump in state's fake electors case (apnews.com)
The Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 Republican supporters of Donald Trump who falsely claimed he won the state in the 2020 election wanted to consider also charging the former president, but prosecutors urged them not to, according to court documents filed this week....
Mexico rejects Ukraine's request to arrest Russia's Putin during visit (www.reuters.com)
The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico’s next president in October. “We can’t do that,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular...