Richard Lawler
Democrats call for Brendan Carr to resign over “bullying” ABC.
With Jimmy Kimmel off the air for now, several party leaders issued a statement over the FCC Chairman’s actions, but what will they do about it?
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PC history.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee docuseries Urban Spelunking spent an episode looking at the history department’s Retrocomputing Lab, which it says is one of four in the US.
It’s full of functioning hardware covering bygone eras, and can probably play that floppy disk you’ve kept for some reason.
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Cybertruck crash test.
IIHS moderate overlap crash test results for seven EVs show good ratings for the i4, Blazer EV, post-April 2025 Cybertruck, and ID.Buzz, and acceptable for Tesla’s Model 3. (No word on the door handles.)
The F-150 Lightning (poor) and Ariya (marginal) results showed risks of injuries to backseat passengers.
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Fiverr lays off 250 people as it becomes an ‘AI-first’ company.
Engadget and The Register note that Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman has announced layoffs affecting 30 percent of its workforce, after telling employees in May that “...AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too.”
Millions of businesses around the world already depend on Fiverr to stay competitive, but we know there are even larger opportunities that we have yet to tap into - AI applications, enterprise budgets, and long-term projects.
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BreachForums founder resentenced to three years in prison.
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka PomPompurin, is linked to crimes including the 2021 breach that sent out fake cybersecurity warning emails from the FBI. After pleading guilty to one count of access device conspiracy, one count of access device solicitation, and one count of possession of child sexual abuse material, he was originally sentenced to 20 years of supervised release.
Founder of One of World’s Largest Hacker Forums Resentenced to Three Years in Prison
[Department of Justice]
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Trump extends the TikTok ban enforcement deadline again.
As he has ever since taking office, Donald Trump again ordered the DOJ to ignore enforcing the TikTok ban law, this time until December 16th.
The president claims a deal is close, which the WSJ reports will hand control to a US consortium of investors including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreesen Horowitz.
Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay
[The White House]
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The Internet Archive and the record labels have reached a settlement.
Last year, the Archive lost an appeal in its ebook lending case, and now it has settled the lawsuit over its Great 78 Project:
The Internet Archive’s blog simply says:
As noted in the recent court filings in UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Internet Archive, both parties have advised the Court that the matter has been settled. The parties have reached a confidential resolution of all claims and will have no further public comment on this matter.
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Steve Ballmer’s Kawhi Leonhard controversy intersects with another scandal.
ESPN NBA writer Brian Windhorst points out that when Aspiration signed up to be the Clippers’ jersey patch sponsor (and, allegedly, help circumvent the NBA’s salary cap) it replaced another company.
That was Honey, the shopping tool exposed for swapping referral codes, which actually got ads featuring Kawhi.
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If you can’t clear your Slack unread count, try refreshing.
The app had an outage this morning, leaving many users staring at an unread count, even after reading all their messages. Slack reports it’s fixed, but if your app is still stuck, hitting CMD + Shift + R (Mac) or CTRL + Shift + R (Windows) to force refresh should clear things up.
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