No U.S. threat to Iran will go unanswered, Tehran says (www.reuters.com)
Stolen Jackie Robinson statue found burned, dismantled in trash can: The search for the perpetrators remains active, Wichita police said (abcnews.go.com)
A statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson stolen from a Kansas park was found dismantled and burned in a trash can fire Tuesday morning in what authorities called a “disgraceful” act, as the search for the perpetrators continues....
'White Lives Matter' member gets 18 years for firebombing church that planned drag events (www.nbcnews.com)
Microsoft Teams hit by second outage in three days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft Teams hit by second outage in three days::Microsoft is investigating a second outage affecting Microsoft Teams users across North and South America in the last three days.
Why do christian apologists say the name of the person they're talking to so often? (crosspost from asklemmy) (slrpnk.net)
Economists Predicted a Recession. So Far They’ve Been Wrong (www.nytimes.com)
A widely predicted recession never showed up. Now, economists are assessing what the unexpected resilience tells us about the future....
Martin Shkreli's lifetime drug industry ban upheld (www.yahoo.com)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martin Shkreli, known for once hiking the price of a life-saving drug more than 4,000%, cannot return to the pharmaceutical industry after a federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld his lifetime ban....
A Chinese man who chain-smoked his way through a marathon was disqualified for smoking on the course (www.businessinsider.com)
A Chinese man was disqualified from the Xiamen Marathon for chain-smoking during the race, violating a new rule against uncivilized behavior.
Valve Made $1 Billion From CS Cases Last Year, Data Claims - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
Google search might be getting worse - and AI threatens to ruin it entirely (www.techradar.com)
California bill would require ‘watermarks’ to signal content created by AI (www.sfchronicle.com)
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How's your housing market these days? (slrpnk.net)
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Netanyahu publicly rejects US push for Palestinian state (www.bbc.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state once the conflict in Gaza comes to an end....
What is going on with Kbin (kbin.melroy.org)
I almost feel like it's October last year, when I pled for improvement on all fronts regarding the Kbin development strategy. Now it seems development has ceased once again and there hasn't been chat on the matrix channels for over a week. Update: that's two weeks now (including his blog) and over a month of no visible...
[Iowa] Evangelicals on Trump: "God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." (www.bbc.co.uk)
The video is bombastic, even by Mr Trump's standards. Just consider the title: God Made Trump.
TachiyomiSY devs have announced to work on a new "spiritual successor" of Tachiyomi (ani.social)
This message has been posted on their discord server yesterday, currently the app is being worked on and has no definitive ETA. We probably have to use other forks until that. I don’t know whether I can share the discord server’s link so not sharing that until a mod gives heads up.
Forty-four of 50 US states worsen inequality with ‘upside-down’ taxes (www.theguardian.com)
Employees Say ‘Sizable Portion’ Of Gearbox-Owned Studio Has Been Laid Off (aftermath.site)
Today on “the gamedev community literally can’t catch a break”…
Infamous cheat maker GameShark is back, trying to crack the AI world with it's mind reading controller built to learn your every move. (www.pcgamesn.com)
My Sega Genesis running Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) (lemmus.org)
Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data (www.wired.com)
At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.
X removes support for NFT profile pictures (techcrunch.com)
Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video (arstechnica.com)
The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/supreme-court-abortion-medical-…
I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System (www.nytimes.com)
Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet certain criteria. But the agency’s plans have already met resistance from tax preparation companies.
