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The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in the Israel Lobby’s face, and caused all of his supporting artists to quit in … Read more
Meta’s Muse mascot is named Jolly. It’s an adorable, cuddly representation of Meta’s AI agent that you can dress however you want—like a doll. At the company’s recent Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s furry Muse donned a toga and laurel wreath. In Instagram ads I saw for Muse, the mascot wore exercise gear and … Read more
Back in 2023, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $75.4 billion. I can’t remember when exactly I started to hear the quasi-joke people would make: Xbox is going to eat Activision Blizzard, and Activision Blizzard is then going to eat Xbox from the inside out. That is no longer a joke, and it’s more or less … Read more
Crusoe, a Denver-based AI data center startup that recently raised $3.9 billion, has ended plans to use a new line of stationary power plants developed by fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic. Founded in 2018 as a bitcoin miner that ran on excess natural gas from oil fields, Crusoe has since become one of the biggest … Read more
Pirate streaming apps have been popular on Android-based devices and Amazon’s Fire TV stick, which in itself became a go-to tool for pirates. Responding to the pirate stigma and pressure from rightsholders, last year Amazon stepped in and disabled several popular pirate apps that were sideloaded onto users’ devices. Amazon’s targets included LiveNetTV, a popular … Read more
By The Rev Kev, a long-standing member of the commentariat Naked Capitalism has started its annual fundraiser, so please head to the old Tip Jar, just under the Snow Leopards and donate bigly. That way, you can sit back and be proud of yourself during the rest of the fundraiser. It takes a helluva lot … Read more
Iran’s IRGC has been striking various US targets and an average of two to three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on a daily basis, as gas prices hit working class Americans where it hurts. On this episode of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh explains how these blows have been compounded by … Read more
Tenda ME6 Pro (3-Pack): Affordable and easy to set up and use, this dual-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh offers decent speeds and range on the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz bands from the main router, but you’ll need wired backhaul to get good speeds from the nodes. Connectivity was patchy, sometimes dropping for no discernible reason. I don’t … Read more
You’ve got a Lambda running in production and a shiny new image sitting in ECR. The lazy move is to update the image URI, walk away, and hope for the best. The problem is that this swaps the code for everyone, instantly, with no safety net. If the new version is broken, congratulations, it’s broken … Read more
When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR team, I was surprised. It was an interactive virtual avatar of him, trained to answer common press questions about Synthesia, like what it does and how it works. The day … Read more