Christian Boarding School Reaches $100 Million Settlement for Alleged Torturing Students (themessenger.com)
An investigation by police revealed school administrators tried to cover up multiple cases of abuse at Miracle Meadows. Students had been handcuffed or shackled to beds, and many endured rapes and vicious beatings.
Sea of Stars sold 100,000 copies on day one (twitter.com)
People were worried that big games releasing these few weeks would overshadow indie games. Seems like that’s luckily not the case.
New Roomba combo bots have swappable dust and water tanks | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
PiBoy Mini: just add a Raspberry Pi and you've got a handheld retro gaming system (www.raspberrypi.com)
Retro gaming is a massively popular Raspberry Pi application, and while loading your favourite old video games onto an SD card is pretty straightforward, building the physical shell of a gaming system can be daunting for those of us without 3D printers or design skills of any kind. PiBoy Mini bridges that gap by providing...
Foxconn's promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory | It's now selling two mostly empty buildings in the state. (www.engadget.com)
Foxconn’s promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory | It’s now selling two mostly empty buildings in the state.::Foxconn is selling two buildings in Wisconsin, which have remained mostly empty since they were originally purchased for its plans to bring production to the US…
Caste matters : Dalit student attacked by caste Hindu students for laughing inside bus in Tamil Nadu, India (www.thenewsminute.com)
In another case of caste-based violence among school students in Tamil Nadu, more than 20 caste Hindu students belonging to the Urali Gounder community attacked a Dalit student and his grandmother in Karur district on Saturday, August 26, for laughing inside a bus....
Home Values Will Rise 6.5% Over the Next Year: Zillow (money.com)
NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Finally Broken (www.phoronix.com)
Russian neo-Nazi group refuses to fight in Ukraine, accusing Kremlin of abandoning its leader (news.yahoo.com)
Dropbox Axes Unlimited Cloud Storage for Businesses (blog.dropbox.com)
Meta releases Code Llama, a code-generating AI model (techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org)
Parents are smashing eggs on their kids heads in new TikTok prank. Doctors say they should stop. (www.nbcnews.com)
The hashtag #eggprank has more than 670.7 million views. But some commenters have expressed concern that parents might be hurting or humiliating children.
India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon (www.bbc.com)
SD Maid terminated from Play Store due to 'Stalkerware policy' (www.androidpolice.com)
Eternity v0.1.0 released! Formerly Infinity for Lemmy (codeberg.org)
cross-posted from !eternityapp...
‘Frasier’ Revival Sets Premiere Date at Paramount+, First Two Episodes to Air on CBS (+teaser). (variety.com)
The “Frasier” revival at Paramount+ has set its premiere date....
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless (qz.com)
US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network (www.theguardian.com)
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Upcoming .COM and .XYZ domain price increases (www.namecheap.com)
On September 1, 2023, the domains registry for .COM and .XYZ will implement universal price increases of up to 9% for .COM renewals, and up to 9% for .XYZ renewals, registrations, and transfers.
The Metal Gear Solid Collection is so true to Hideo Kojima's "original vision" that it needed a new content warning (www.gamesradar.com)
Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death (unseen-japan.com)
A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan's continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.
Kept in captive isolation for nearly 53 years, Lolita the orca dies amidst plans for release (www.salon.com)
According to a statement from the Miami Seaquarium, she died due to a suspected renal condition