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Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)

Paris is battling an infestation of bloodsucking bedbugs on trains and in movie theaters as the city gets ready to host the 2024 Olympics (www.insider.com)

US sues Amazon.com for breaking antitrust law and harming consumers (www.reuters.com)

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com (AMZN.O) on Tuesday, charging the online retailer with harming consumers through higher prices in the latest U.S. government legal action aimed at breaking Big Tech’s dominance of the internet....

TIL that in the US, liberal adolescents are much more likely to experience depression than their conservative counterparts. This divergence in depression rates only started recently and is growing (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

London Cop Who Shot Dead Unarmed Black Man Charged With Murder (www.vice.com)

Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

Zoom CEO says workers can't build trust or unite... on Zoom (www.theregister.com)

The current state of gaming (sh.itjust.works)

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)

Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users (gizmodo.com)

Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users::Two separate data analysis firms say the Twitter killer from Instagram has unraveled even as Meta has rushed to add highly requested features.

Actor Paul Reubens, of PeeWee Herman fame, dead at 70 (www.nbcnews.com)

Xbox's biggest crisis right now isn't games. It's hardware. (Opinion - Jez Corden) (www.windowscentral.com)

"Today, PlayStation revealed that its PS5 has sold 40 million units. Microsoft doesn’t share hardware numbers typically, but court documents, math, and slides from an ID@Xbox in Brazil seem to suggest the Xbox Series X|S line-up is around 20-23 million units sold globally. That essentially puts the PS5 at a 2:1 advantage...

James Cameron on AI: "I warned you guys in 1984 and you didn't listen" (www.joblo.com)

James Cameron on AI: “I warned you guys in 1984 and you didn’t listen”::undefined

Ukraine war: Kyiv claims first victories of counter-offensive - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

Ukraine says it has liberated four villages in the south-east, calling these the first settlements won back from Russia since Kyiv’s counter-offensive began...

Earth systems critical to all life are on the verge of total collapse (www.earth.com)

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Elon Musk Says He And Trump Have Discussed Creating ‘Efficiency Commission’ To Deregulate But Warns: ‘The Matrix Will Fight Back’ (www.mediaite.com)

Bungie CEO faces backlash after announcing 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce, will be laid off | Pete Parsons has spent $2.4 million on classic cars since Sony acquired Destiny developer Bungie (www.techspot.com)

It’s a sad case of another day, another round of mass layoffs at a game studio. On this occasion, Destiny developer Bungie has announced it is letting go of 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce. CEO Pete Parsons said the eliminations were due to “financial challenges,” which isn’t going down well, especially after it...

Donald Trump Photo Without Ear Bandage Raises Eyebrows (www.newsweek.com)

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)

We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny (www.theguardian.com)

How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia unleashed them on a completely blank smartphone linked to a new, unused email address....

After recent state law change, the only way to appeal an eviction in Tennessee is pay an entire year's rent upfront (www.newschannel5.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/the-only-way-to-appeal-an-evict…

Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of Twitter/X ad boycott perpetrators (arstechnica.com)

After the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary released a report accusing the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) of colluding with companies to censor conservative voices online, Elon Musk chimed in. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk wrote that X “has no choice but to file suit against the...