Tango Gameworks employee shares pictures from the Xbox studio’s final day (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to help pay Sandy Hook debt as judge decides Infowars’ fate (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets and was still deciding on his company’s separate bankruptcy case. The decision could determine the future of his Infowars media platform, as Jones owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School...
Did Magic Die When Art and Science Split? (nautil.us)
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Leaked Memo Claims New York Times Fired Artists to Replace Them With AI (futurism.com)
FAA investigates counterfeit titanium used in some Boeing and Airbus jets (ground.news)
Yuzo Koshiro's 'The Story Of Thor/Beyond Oasis' OST Is Being Re-Released On Vinyl | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
Wayô Records has announced that it will release Yuzo Koshiro’s phenomenal soundtrack to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis action RPG The Story of Thor (known as Beyond Oasis in North America) as a limited edition double-LP this September. The music for this soundtrack was recorded directly from a Mega Drive console, following a...
One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down (arstechnica.com)
Telehealth executives accused of $100m Adderall scheme (www.bbc.com)
US investigators have arrested the founder and CEO of a telehealth company who is accused of a running a $100m (£78m) scheme to fraudulently distribute over 40m pills of Adderall and other controlled substances....
Woman dies after being hit by police truck on S.C. beach (www.wrdw.com)
‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city (www.theguardian.com)
Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote in the European elections, with particular support in the east...
Boeing and Airbus may have used 'counterfeit' titanium in planes, FAA says (www.nbcnews.com)
The Federal Aviation Administration said it would investigate allegations that titanium had entered the supply chain via falsified documents....
Germany: Record cocaine haul worth billions of euros seized (www.dw.com)
“Dozens of tons of cocaine have been taken out of circulation,” German authorities said. The drugs were first uncovered in Hamburg last year....
The head of the FAA says his agency was too hands-off in its oversight of Boeing (apnews.com)
The top U.S. aviation regulator said Thursday that the Federal Aviation Administration should have been more aware of manufacturing problems inside Boeing before a panel blew off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January....
Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' (www.theregister.com)
French election descends into madcap reality TV (www.politico.eu)
The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote....
A new challenger has appeared to challenge Soviet tanks for the title of The worst tank (sh.itjust.works)
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Meta to pause plans to use personal data to train AI models (www.rte.ie)
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is to pause plans to use personal data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models after concerns were raised by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
Earth's core slows down rotation and reverses direction, effects of this phenomenal change on the planet (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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"Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy (www.atlanticcouncil.org)
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre (apnews.com)
Supreme Court rules gun 'bump stocks’ ban is unlawful (www.cnbc.com)
Vladimir Putin issues fresh demands to Ukraine to end war (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin has demanded that Kyiv cede more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country, and drop its Nato bid in order for him to end Russia’s war in Ukraine....
Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity (www.bbc.com)
US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not....