Man arrested for faking heart attack 20 times at restaurants to avoid paying bill, reports say (www.fox5atlanta.com)
Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer” (www.pcgamesn.com)
Quote from the article: “The inclusion of intrusive DRM softwares [sic] like Denuvo is a choice that yields an unfair punishment on the consumer,” Running With Scissors says. “Respect the consumer, make a game they want to play, and you will never feel the need to fight piracy. The gaming industry deserves a better future,...
Donald Trump mugshot released after former US president surrenders at Fulton jail over election charges – live (www.theguardian.com)
Yeah! Today is 18 Years of openSUSE (news.opensuse.org)
Opensuse TW all day every day
Georgia judge orders jurors’ identities to stay secret during Trump election trial (www.nbcnews.com)
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had requested an order that would limit revealing jurors’ names and likenesses during any trial in the case....
Unity will quietly waive controversial fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation service - report (www.eurogamer.net)
A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....
CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab (www.livescience.com)
Spanish activists vandalize superyacht in Ibiza believed to belong to billionaire Walmart heiress (localnews8.com)
How Biden is continuing to cancel student loan debt despite Supreme Court ruling (www.cnn.com)
Although the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program in late June, his administration has found ways to cancel more than $48 billion in debt since then....
14-year-old gang raped, cut into pieces while alive and burned in furnace. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Giuliani liable for defaming Georgia election workers, judge rules (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming two election workers in Georgia, a U.S. judge in Washington said on Wednesday....
Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.
A Lufthansa pilot traced a 15-mile-long penis shape in the sky after being asked to divert his plane (www.businessinsider.com)
“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract (teamster.org)
Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements....
Consumer Reports finds more lead and cadmium in chocolate, urges change at Hershey (www.reuters.com)
Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring” (www.avclub.com)
Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”::Charlie Brooker doesn’t think AI is taking his job any time soon because it only produces trash
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users. (www.ctrl.blog)
Man Used 80 Discarded Vape Batteries to Power an Electric Scooter Proving the Importance of E-Waste (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
A clever graduate has used 80 discarded vape batteries to power his e-scooter—and to make a point about waste.
why does this keep happening? (sh.itjust.works)
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The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers. (www.businessinsider.com)
The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That’s going to crush Gen Z’s career path.
Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data (venturebeat.com)
I don't care that Goku and Frieza have been powering up for the last two weeks; you're not changing it on me (slrpnk.net)
Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (www.theguardian.com)
TikToker who debunked Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' video receives racist, violent hate mail (www.nbcnews.com)
Since countering Aldean’s claim the video only contains “real news footage,” Destinee Stark has received a wave of hateful messages from defenders of the song.
