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Drivers Stunned To See Racial Slur On Digital Sign In North Carolina (jalopnik.com)

NCDOT says the sign was hacked, but the roadside display wasn't even locked.

FOSS 'Ploopy' headphones (github.com)

Also if anyone knows how to design PCB boards github.com/ploopyco/headphones/issues/28

IRS raises 401(k), IRA contribution limits for 2024 (www.foxbusiness.com)

Beginning in 2024, workers will be allowed to contribute up to $23,000 to their 401(k), an increase of $500 from this year. The increase applies to other retirement savings accounts, including the 403(b) plan, most 457 plans and the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan.

Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward (finance.yahoo.com)

Birth rate in Italy reaches new record low (www.ansa.it)

One Regulation Could Have Stopped a Nationwide Car Theft Wave. Why Don't We Have It? (www.vice.com)

In 2007, Canada started requiring all vehicles to have a cheap, effective anti-theft device. The U.S. didn't. Now, it is paying the price with a surge in Kia and Hyundai thefts.

'North Korea sent 1 million rounds of artillery to Russia' (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

Court arguments on blocking Trump from the presidential ballot under the ‘insurrection’ clause begin (apnews.com)

A weeklong hearing on one lawsuit to bar Trump from the ballot in Colorado begins Monday, while on Thursday oral arguments are scheduled before the Minnesota Supreme Court on an effort to kick the Republican former president off the ballot in that state....

Apple might reveal a proper gaming product at its October event (www.techradar.com)

Apple might reveal a proper gaming product at its October event::I’ll take one gaming MacBook please, Apple!

‘Gonna shoot up’: Cornell University’s Jewish students on lockdown (www.jpost.com)

Scientists raise the alarm about vivid sexual hallucinations under anesthesia (www.psypost.org)

CCleaner says hackers stole users' personal data during MOVEit mass-hack | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

General Motors' robotaxi service suspends driverless operations nationwide regulators (apnews.com)

General Motors’ Cruise says it's suspending its driverless operations nationwide as the robotaxi service works to rebuild public trust.

Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says (apnews.com)

An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported Saturday....

Twitter takeover: how a year of Elon Musk rendered the platform useless | Pranav Dixit (www.theguardian.com)

Texas litterbug arrested after dumping 200 pounds of trash (www.chron.com)

The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law (www.theverge.com)

Russia says it rehearsed delivering a massive retaliatory nuclear strike (www.reuters.com)

Russian forces simulate nuclear strike as upper house rescinds ratification of test ban treaty (apnews.com)

Russia’s military conducted a simulated nuclear strike in a drill Wednesday overseen by President Vladimir Putin, hours after the upper house of parliament voted to rescind the country’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban....

Turkey’s Erdogan says Hamas is a ‘liberation’ not a ‘terrorist’ group (english.alarabiya.net)

Japan investigates foreign YouTubers accused of dodging train fares and stealing food (www.theguardian.com)

The rise in nuisance influencers comes as tourism numbers in Japan near their pre-pandemic levels

Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes (gizmodo.com)

Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes::Microsoft now allows users to disable automatic date conversion, which means scientists no longer have to worry about using alternative names for genes.

New Recipe for Efficient, Environmentally Friendly Battery Recycling / A new method enables 100% of the aluminum and 98% of the lithium from spent car batteries to be recovered and recycled. (www.technologynetworks.com)

New Recipe for Efficient, Environmentally Friendly Battery Recycling / A new method enables 100% of the aluminum and 98% of the lithium from spent car batteries to be recovered and recycled.::A new, efficient method enables 100% of the aluminum and 98% of the lithium from spent car batteries to be recovered and recycled while...

Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon - A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon's buying and selling safeguards. (arstechnica.com)

Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon - A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon’s buying and selling safeguards.::A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon’s buying and selling safeguards.