2024-12-06
celebrating CEO murder, Boeing plea bounced, log vs linear, AT&T fiber flub, Bitcoin $100k, Intel 18A honks, Atkins for SEC, begging the pardons, phones are Party lines, six hours of martial law
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PDX main airport terminal reopens with trees and 9-acre wood-beamed ceiling
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Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
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United Healthcare CEO Shooting: Message May Have Been Left on Bullets
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(Oct 2024) UnitedHealth data breach leaked info on over 100M people
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(Nov 2024) CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna sue to block FTC case over insulin prices
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Police appear to be closing in on name of gunman who shot CEO.
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Social Media Has Little Sympathy for Murdered Health Insurance Exec
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Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing
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Tsunami warning canceled after 7.0 earthquake shakes California, Oregon
Horseshit
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700-year-old handwriting unveils leading Byzantine painter's true identity
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Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals | Hacker News
If you go to the doctor with a problem and get a blood test and they say that everything looks fine, but you don’t feel fine, then you don’t say: “well the numbers are right, I should feel fine”. Rather you try to find what the numbers aren’t capturing, because you know something is wrong. Same with the economy. The perception of the economy being bad is really pervasive as demonstrated by the last election, and perception matters, because selective numbers don’t tell the whole story.
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Sauron, a new home-security system for the terrified tech elite
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More Americans living in malls, as developers help ease the housing crisis
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The Guy Who Bought (and Ate) That Banana Art Is a Dangerous Criminal
celebrity gossip
Obit
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Top Chinese language novelist dies in apparent suicide
Chiung Yao, arguably the world's most popular Chinese language romance novelist, has died in an apparent suicide. The 86-year-old's body was found in her home in New Taipei City on Wednesday, local media report. Emergency services said she took her own life, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency.
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Ronald Weiss, the 'Wayne Gretzky of Vasectomies,' Dies at 68
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
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China automakers pivot to hybrids for Europe to counter EV tariffs
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Tesla Suspends Cybertruck Production
Cybertruck production appears to be ramping down. Workers on the vehicle's assembly line have been told that there's no need to report to work for 3 days.
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No more EV app folders: Universal plug-and-charge is due to launch in 2025
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Threads takes an important baby step toward true Fediverse integration
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Valve dev fixes 3D lighting, exposes flawed graphics card math
"It's a bit technical," begins Birdwell, "but the simple version is that graphics cards at the time always stored RGB textures and even displayed everything as non linear intensities, meaning that an 8 bit RGB value of 128 encodes a pixel that's about 22% as bright as a value of 255, but the graphics hardware was doing lighting calculations as though everything was linear.
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Microsoft says having a TPM is "non-negotiable" for Windows 11
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Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent
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Reclaim the internet: Mozilla's rebrand for the next era of tech
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Twitch is in controversy over creators' content about Israel and Palestine
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AT&T says it won't build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint
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The return of Steam Machines? Valve rolls out new "Powered by SteamOS" branding
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Day after nuclear power vow Meta announces largest-ever fossil fueled datacenter
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Ousted Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is leaving the company with millions
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Shopify merchants drive record-high $11.5B sales over Black Friday Cyber Monday
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Amazon sued over slower deliveries to low-income beighborhoods
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Traditional for software development shops: More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, weeks before Christmas
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Wall Street parties like it's 1998 as AI fuels gains unmatched since dot-com era
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McKinsey unit will pay $123M to settle claims it bribed South African officials
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U.S. Economy Is Doing What Few Others Are: Getting More Productive
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'We're in a recession,' says former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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Trump picks crypto backer Paul Atkins as new SEC chair
Atkins served as an SEC commissioner from 2002 to 2008 and is known for his pro-business stance. He's now the CEO of consulting firm Patomak Global Partners, which has clients across the financial and cryptocurrency industries.
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Billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk is picked to lead NASA
Democrats / Biden Inc
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Biden White House Is Discussing Preemptive Pardons for Those in Trump’s Crosshairs.
Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic. The West Wing deliberations have been organized by White House counsel Ed Siskel but include a range of other aides, including chief of staff Jeff Zients. The president himself, who was intensely focused on his son’s pardon, has not been brought into the broader pardon discussions yet, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix
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US senators vow action after briefing on Chinese Salt Typhoon telecom hacking
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US officials recommend encrypted messaging to evade hackers in telecom networks
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White House official: 8 US telecom providers hacked by Chinese
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Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career'
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Worst US hack in history: Chinese can monitor all your calls and emails