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Italy shocks banks with 40 percent windfall tax for 2023 (www.aljazeera.com)

PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency. (www.paypal.com)

PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency and you’ll be able to buy, sell, hold, and transfer it in the app. 1 USD : 1 PYUSD on PayPal

End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work (nypost.com)

End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work::Zoom is asking all of its employees to return to the office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, when the tech company blew up as one of the main means of communication when people were forced to work from home.

Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else (www.pcgamer.com)

I was planning on paying a rogue, paladin, or warlock (based on my tabletop characters), but this article nearly has me convinced. I am waiting for the PS5 release, so any agreement or dissension from my PC friends? Other class recommendations?...

A funder for 'Sound of Freedom,' a QAnon-adjacent film about child sex trafficking, has been charged with accessory to child kidnapping (www.insider.com)

Exclusive: Google Pixel Watch 2 to feature UWB, new chipset, and more - android authority (www.androidauthority.com)

Use the snapdragon w5 gen 1, no more tensor on the wearables for now.

Google is offering an on-campus hotel 'special' to help lure workers back to the office (www.cnbc.com)

AP psychology course can’t be offered over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons, College Board says (www.orlandosentinel.com)

Florida bans AP psychology, College Board says, because of lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation, which violate state rules.

You can play Starfield on PC and Xbox even if you only buy it once (www.pcgamesn.com)

OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation (www.businessinsider.com)

Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.

The Simpsons: Hit and Run Fan Remake Is Complete, but It Will Never Be Released - IGN (www.ign.com)

Even the developer cannot be bothered to release physical copies or pretend to sell them as blank disk copies.

Singapore hangs first woman in 19 years after she was convicted of trafficking 31 grams of heroin (apnews.com)

Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease capital punishment for drug-related crimes.

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)

From the article: “About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel...

This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal (www.forbes.com)

Tesla's CEO optimistic on progress for self-driving, robots (www.reuters.com)

Bookwyrm - A Goodreads alternative that is part of the fediverse (github.com)

Goodreads is perhaps the best example of enshittification imo. It’s only good now as a way to track your reading lists....

Australian man and his dog rescued by Mexican tuna boat after drifting 3 months in the Pacific Ocean (www.google.com)

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‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)

AI System Helped Cops Identify a Drug Trafficker Just by Analyzing His Driving Patterns (gizmodo.com)

Well this is terrifying…

Assassin's Creed haptic feedback shirt will let players feel every punch, stab, and fall (www.techspot.com)

The partnership lets players experience the world as the game’s protagonist, Basim

I almost can’t believe it, but Google Tasks is finally kind of good (www.theverge.com)

For years, Google’s to-do list app Tasks was poorly integrated and underdeveloped. Recently, Google has combined all their reminder products into a single Google Tasks app that is accessible across Google products. While still lacking some advanced features, Google Tasks’ simplicity and integration make it easy to add tasks...