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Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple

Operations king Jeff Williams abdicates – just don't give him a watch

Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down from his role next month and leaving the company later this year to spend more time with friends and family.…

Microsoft enjoys first Patch Tuesday of 2025 with no active exploits

Sure, 130 fixes were sent out, but bask in the security goodness

For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.…

IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage

More efficient cores plus an optional energy saver mode in Big Blue's latest CPUs

In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips.…

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Aangehouden man overlijdt na onwelwording in politievoertuig

OOSTERBEEK (ANP) - Een man die dinsdag in het Gelderse Oosterbeek is aangehouden is in het politievoertuig onwel geworden en overleden. De politie meldt dat hulp niet mocht baten en dat de Rijksrecherche, die onder het Openbaar Ministerie valt, onderzoek doet naar de omstandigheden.

De man werd rond 18.00 uur onwel. Hij was daarvoor aangehouden op de Veerweg. Volgens lokale en regionale media gebeurde dat na een scootercontrole en ontstond bij de aanhouding een worsteling met de politie.


ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters in S.F.

Mission Local:

The clash started at 11:18 a.m. on Tuesday when around 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, almost all with faces covered, tried to enter the courthouse at 100 Montgomery St. to escort other agents already inside who had a young immigrant man in custody.

ICE has been routinely arresting asylum-seekers following their immigration hearings, and anti-ICE protesters had gathered at the courthouse that morning, as they said they've been doing every Tuesday. [...]

Protesters tried to grab the man in handcuffs and pull him away from officers, but were tossed back by the ICE agents. As police pulled the man back into a waiting black SUV and began driving away, protesters jumped onto the van's front hood.

A half-dozen protesters blocked the van by amassing in front of it. The van inched forward, indifferent, before gaining speed and driving off quickly. One protester, still lying on the hood of the car, fell off the car's hood half a block away and was almost run over.

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L.A. activist indicted for giving face shields to anti-ICE protesters

Alejandro Orellana, a 29-year-old member of the Boyle Heights-based community organization Centro CSO, faces charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting civil disorder:

According to the indictment, Orellana and at least two others drove around downtown L.A. in a pickup truck distributing Uvex Bionic face shields and other items to a crowd engaged in a protest near the federal building on Los Angeles Street on June 9.

Prosecutors allege Orellana was helping protesters withstand less-lethal munitions being deployed by Los Angeles police officers and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies. [...]

Asked how handing out defensive equipment was a crime during a news conference last month, U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli [said] "He wasn't handing masks out at the beach. ... They're covering their faces. They're wearing backpacks. These weren't peaceful protesters." [...] Essayli described anyone who remained at a protest scene after an unlawful assembly was declared as a "rioter" and said peaceful protesters "don't need a face shield." [...]

"It's ridiculous charges. We're demanding they drop the charges now. They're insignificant, ridiculous," Montes said. "The most it amounts to is that he was passing out personal protective equipment, which includes boxes of water, hand sanitizer and snacks."

If you want a picture of the future, it's a rubber bullet screaming "STOP RESISTING". When people wear protective equipment, "the ability of that officer to gain compliance is restricted."

Remember, kids: all protests are peaceful until the cops declare that they are not!

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Sapphire Motel

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Sapphire Motel

Found Kodachrome Slide

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Found Kodachrome Slide

handwritten on slide, “Easter, 1958" date stamped on slide June 1958

The Chase

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The Chase

Found Photograph

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Found Photograph

Found Slide

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Found Slide

date stamped on slide, August 1967, handwritten on slide, “Indianapolis, Hogans"

Found Photo

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Found Photo

handwritten on back of photograph, "small Mexican town graveyard, 1951"

Keep to Yourself, It's Easier That Way

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Keep to Yourself, It's Easier That Way

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Activision Took Down Call of Duty Game After PC Players Hacked

Activision removed "Call of Duty: WWII" from Microsoft Store and Game Pass after hackers exploited a security vulnerability that allowed them to compromise players' computers, TechCrunch reported Tuesday, citing a source. The gaming giant took the 2017 first-person shooter offline last week while investigating what it initially described only as "reports of an issue."

Players posted on social media claiming their systems had been hacked while playing the game. The vulnerability was a remote code execution exploit that enables attackers to install malware and take control of victims' devices. The Microsoft Store and Game Pass versions contained an unpatched security flaw that had been fixed in other versions of the game.

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Music Pioneer Napster Tries Again, This Time With AI Chatbots

Napster has returned with an AI-powered reinvention, launching a platform of specialized chatbots and holographic avatars. The former dot-com music file-sharing pioneer now offers dozens of "AI companions" trained as experts in fields from therapy to business strategy, plus the View device for 3D holographic video chats, FastCompany reports.

Infinite Reality acquired Napster for $207 million in March and rebranded itself under the nostalgic name. The platform charges $19 monthly or $199 bundled with hardware, marking Napster's latest attempt at relevance after previous owners tried VR concerts and crypto ventures.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Amazon Asks Corporate Workers To 'Volunteer' Help With Grocery Deliveries as Prime Day Frenzy Approaches

Corporate employees of Amazon have been asked to volunteer their time to the company's warehouses to assist with grocery delivery as it heads into its annual discount spree known as Prime Day. From a report: In a Slack message reviewed by the Guardian that went to thousands of white-collar workers in the New York City area from engineers to marketers, an Amazon area manager called for corporate "volunteers to help us out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on our biggest days yet." It is not clear how many took up the offer.

The ask came the day before Prime Day kicks off. The manager said volunteers are "needed" to work Tuesday through Friday this week, in two-hour shifts between 10am and 6pm in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the company operates a warehouse as part of its grocery delivery service, Amazon Fresh. Corporate employees seconded to the warehouse would be tasked with picking items, preparing carts and bags of groceries for delivery, packing boxes on receiving carts, and working to "boost morale with distribution of snacks," though they would be allowed to step into a conference room to take meetings and calls, according to the message. The manager noted such an effort would help "connect" warehouse and corporate teams. Further reading: Amazon Prime Day Spending Down 14% in Early Hours From 2024.

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Daft Punk - Technologic

Daft Punk

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A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom. I’ve only started listening to this podcast, but it’s so good already and I’ve heard only great things about it.

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蛇滝口、裏高尾

NASU.PHOTOGRAPHY has added a photo to the pool:

蛇滝口、裏高尾

The trailhead is from an area called “Uratakao” on the back side of the crowded Mt.Takao.

「蛇滝口」
人の多い高尾山の裏側の「裏高尾」と呼ばれるエリアからの登山口です。滝行道場から登っていく静かな登山道です。

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