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Biden to push for Supreme Court ethics reform, term limits and amendment to overturn immunity ruling, sources say (www.cnn.com)

Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)

I'm giving them a year until lifetime licenses start to mean nothing. (slrpnk.net)

North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

Black national anthem sends MAGA into meltdown (www.newsweek.com)

Indiana Launches Anti-LGBTQ "Snitch Line," Users Flood With Memes In Protest (www.erininthemorning.com)

Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro (www.itpro.com)

Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years....

Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK] (www.theguardian.com)

Tesla Investors Call for Musk's Suspension, Apple Pulls Ads on X (gizmodo.com)

Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it (www.macworld.com)

Apple has a memory problem and we’re all paying for it::Apple still sells expensive “Pro” computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.

DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion (www.cnbc.com)

Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle's emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.

Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)

Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....

Those of you who share a name with a celebrity, how do you deal with it? (sh.itjust.works)

I share a name with a very famous professional athlete. I don’t even think about it usually but as soon as I have to give my name to someone I can pretty much count on some remark about the athlete by the same name....

Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn? (futurism.com)

A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.

"Write a Check for $11,000. She Was 26, She Had Limited Value." [Seattle Police] Officer Jokes with Police Union Leader About Killing of Pedestrian by Fellow Cop (publicola.com)

In a conversation with Mike Solan, the head of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, Seattle Police Department officer and SPOG vice president Daniel Auderer minimized the killing of 23-year-old student Jaahnavi Kandula by police officer Kevin Dave and joked that she had “limited value” as a “regular person” who was only...

Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. (boingboing.net)

4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)

Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

Property owner stunned after $500,000 house built on wrong lot: ‘Are you kidding me?’ (www.fox19.com)

Double-swiping the rewards card led to free gas for months — and a felony theft charge (apnews.com)

A Nebraska woman allegedly found a lucrative quirk at a gas station pump — double-swipe the rewards card and get free gas!...

Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

LOL....

Trump tells rally immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ (www.theguardian.com)

Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January (9to5google.com)

Over 60 percent of Gen Z have an anxiety disorder (thehill.com)

Google's AI Bots Tout 'Benefits' of Genocide, Slavery, Fascism, Other Evils (www.tomshardware.com)

If you asked a spokesperson from any Fortune 500 Company to list the benefits of genocide or give you the corporation’s take on whether slavery was beneficial, they would most likely either refuse to comment or say “those things are evil; there are no benefits.” However, Google has AI employees, SGE and Bard, who are more...