What Went Wrong: Inside Paramount’s Failed Merger Talks and the Battle to Salvage the Company (variety.com)
The Paramount Skydance merger talks have been halted by the Paramount side.
'It's inhumane.' Despite how hot it is, Tennessee renters don't have a right to air conditioning (www.newschannel5.com)
Despite how hot it is, landlords in Tennessee are not required to keep the air conditioning running....
Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws (www.engadget.com)
Leap Micro 6.0 reaches Beta (news.opensuse.org)
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Beta is now available! We expect that it will very quickly transition to RC and GA as the infra readiness advances. Leap Micro 6.0 Beta images can be found at get.opensuse.org or directly at download.opensuse.org....
Better Dead Than Captured: Israel’s Protocol for Its Soldiers Taken Captive (progressive.org)
New Yorker describes how she tackled child rape suspect after recognizing him (www.independent.co.uk)
During the apprehension of Inga-Landi on Tuesday, Sauretti further explained that the man then kept on resisting and protested....
Matrix Webhook Help (kbin.run)
So I've been trying to setup the nim65s/matrix-webhook Docker container but cannot for the life of me get it to work....
Goverlay/Mangohud issues (ibb.co)
I am having issues with Mangohud and Goverlay....
Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf. (www.npr.org)
The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....
Omg guys war with China would be terrible we wouldn’t want war with China (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
“Systemd is the future” (www.phoronix.com)
Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:...
The 2 Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactors In Africa Baffle Researchers! (n24hr.com)
The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away (www.theguardian.com)
While some of their language has changed, the sentiment of this latest aggressive movement is just as distressing. It’s time for the games industry to stand up to it
Russian President Putin arrives in Vietnam for state visit (www.reuters.com)
End Legal Slavery in the United States (www.nytimes.com)
https://archive.ph/9Mq4c
Russia and North Korea sign mutual defense treaty (www.npr.org)
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (www.wired.com)
A WIRED analysis and one carried out by developer Robb Knight suggest that Perplexity is able to achieve this partly through apparently ignoring a widely accepted web standard known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol to surreptitiously scrape areas of websites that operators do not want accessed by bots, despite claiming that it...
Lawsuit Filed Challenging Constitutionality Of Vast Network Of Illinois License Plate Readers (www.techdirt.com)
The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law (apnews.com)
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday....
How the Recycling Symbol Duped People into Buying More Plastic (www.scientificamerican.com)
Plastic wrap tangles around sorting equipment at recycling facilities, shutting down operations as employees try to cut it out of the equipment. Huge bales of paper shipped overseas can contain as much as 30 percent plastic waste. “Contamination is one of the biggest challenges facing the recycling industry,” the EPA said in...