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Richard Lawler

Richard Lawler

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    Enron (is not) so back.

    Someone has, for some reason, launched a campaign on Enron.com claiming a “bold new vision.” However, as many have pointed out, the site’s TOS identifies its information “first amendment protected parody,” in addition to what Sean O’Kane points out about its crypto / merch pitch.

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    Richard Lawler
    Three killed, one seriously injured in Tesla Cybertruck crash.

    ABC 7 Bay Area reports that last night in Piedmont, CA, a Cybertruck “jumped the curb, struck a cement wall, and then wedged in between the wall and a tree,” according to officials who said speed was a factor. Like a fatal Cybertruck wreck in August, it then caught fire.

    One person was pulled from the vehicle by another driver, and they are recovering from burn wounds.

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    Richard Lawler
    Bluesky won’t use your posts for AI training, but can it stop anyone else?

    Today, a Hugging Face employee published data from 1 million Bluesky posts scraped from its API to the AI repository. He’s removed it and apologized, but 404 Media notes the set was “trending” all day.

    Bluesky says it’s looking into ways to “specify consent (or not) for AI training.” but acknowledges that “It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings.”

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    Richard Lawler
    Shuhei Yoshida is retiring from PlayStation after 31 years.

    The former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios and current head of indie initiatives has been a part of PlayStation since it started in 1993, but now he’s leaving in January.

    Shuhei Yoshida (aka @yosp) explains on the official podcast and in another in-depth interview that he felt it was time and that PlayStation is in good hands.

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    Richard Lawler
    Who actually owns your social media accounts? (Not you.)

    As 404 Media and others note, Elon Musk’s X has inserted itself into The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars, arguing that neither Alex Jones nor the estate handling his bankruptcy owns the associated social media accounts.

    Since X simply grants a license for their use, the lawyers say that can’t be transferred without permission.

    Pursuant to the Successful Bidder Notice, the Sale Motion, and to the extent applicable, the Jones IP Sale Motion, the Trustee now seeks to contravene X Corp.’s TOS by improperly selling or otherwise transferring the X Accounts (which neither Jones nor his bankruptcy estate own) to a third party.
    Case 22-33553 Document 937
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    Richard Lawler
    Microsoft’s all-day 365 and Teams outage still isn’t completely over.

    The outage affecting services like Exchange Online, Teams, and Outlook email hasn’t been resolved despite starting early Monday morning. Now Microsoft’s status page is forecasting a resolution “within 3 hours.”

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    Richard Lawler
    Microsoft says it’s fixing a Teams / Microsoft 365 outage.

    The Microsoft 365 status reports it’s “started to deploy a fix,” after noting issues overnight affecting Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. Its status page mentioned there have been problems for some while accessing Outlook via the web or desktop, Sharepoint, and Universal Print.