Located 14734 results from search term 'sports news'
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Commented in Tuned In: Amazon Said To Be Paying Record $120M To Stream NFL Playoff Game
I don't watch a lot of sports ball, but I imagine a lot of people who do are not going to be happy about this long term. Sure, you can get a trial subscription and then cancel, but you only get one trial per credit card/ address.
It's enshittification in the name of profits, because the NFL just doesn't make enough money.
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Commented in 3 million smart toothbrushes were just used in a DDoS attack. Really
On Mastodon people are disagreeing, simply because the article in question doesn't tell about the target, there's only one single source and the researcher is not named. One of the responses to that post is pretty valid, namely the toothbrushes' brands are not mentioned and it seems rather impossible that toothbrushes have wifi, most of them have bluetooth (pun not intended) and are only connected to a phone. In order to use that phone, you have to hack that phone also. It's not that easy as presented. The article that was linked as source of the news was behind a paywall, so I have tried to undo it. Here's the link. To me it's more fearmongering than reality.
That being said, I think it's always smart to check the safety of your equipment, whether it's a toothbrush or a system critical computer. Like with operating systems, people tend to just use it, consume it, without questioning the safety of all that stuff. Putting your trust in companies is never a wise idea, since they have just one main goal: a profitable bottomline.
Edit: the botnet with toothbrushes story was merely an illustration and not a fact, see this Mastodon-post. Also on YouTube someone has some really well argumented comments on this story.
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Commented in OpenStack Unleashes Bobcat: A Leap Forward in Open-Source Cloud Infrastructure
The good news is that Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo have all released their own updates. In addition, the upstream glibc code has been patched with the fix.
So no worries at my end.
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Commented in Our retreat from Christianity doesn’t mean we’ve lost our sense of morality
The religious like to think anyone who is not religious is not moral and that's not true. And many religious people are not morale and I've met some of them and read about them doing horrible things in the news. "But god will forgive me!" Rolls eyes
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Commented in Meta is so unwilling to pay for news under a new Canadian law that it's starting to block it on Facebook and Instagram in that country
Facebook doesn't want to pay the link tax. It has decided that it's better off getting out of news. It has every right to do this. Pretty good result all round I'd say. I don't know why the Canadian government is so upset about it. Invent stupid taxes, win stupid prizes.
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Commented in Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision's Call of Duty on PlayStation
Oh wow, ain't this wonderful news for gamers? I don't usually play Call of Duty but since it's now available on PlayStation, maybe I'll go ahead and give it a try. I just wish I have enough money to buy the game when it arrives.
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Commented in Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new law
This is like a game of brinkmanship. It will be interesting to see how it plays out, but I doubt Google will stop showing CBA and CTV content. If they do, they will drive more searches to Bing. I go to Google to avoid having to visit a dozen news sites individually.
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Commented in A Pokémon RPG’s coming to Switch
According to the https://collectorpricing.org Yes, it's true! A Pokémon RPG is indeed coming to the Nintendo Switch. The president and CEO of The Pokémon Company, Tsunekazu Ishihara, announced during Nintendo's E3 2017 Direct presentation that the Switch would be getting a mainline entry in the Pokémon series. Fans of the franchise were thrilled to hear this news and eagerly awaited further updates on the game's development. It's exciting to see Pokémon making its way onto the Switch platform, offering players a new and immersive RPG experience in the beloved Pokémon world.
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Commented in A Conservation Success As Zero Indian Rhinos Were Poached In 2022 Making It The First Time In 45 Years
Good news, fuck the poachers
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Commented in Millions of Reddit users face a blackout over pricing revolt
Welp, I can confirm, I am a 15+year user of reddit, and I am moving on. Its been a patchy ride but you can't shake your head in any direction without seeing news firehoses aimed at your face, so I don't think I'm going to miss anything.
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Commented in BMW adds games to the 5 series
The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization. Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global. Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global. She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided. Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud. In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion. According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.
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Commented in Shopify to reduce workforce by 20%, sells logistics business to Flexport for 13% equity
I'm sorry, but I couldn't find any information about Shopify reducing its workforce by 20% or selling its logistics business to Flexport for 13% equity in my training data up until September 2021. It's possible that these events occurred after my last update, or they may be inaccurate or speculative. To get the most accurate and up-to-date information, I recommend checking reliable news sources or contacting Shopify directly for the latest details on any changes to their business operations.
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Commented in Robots in the Big Apple: Robo-trash cans patrolling New York plaza make friends, creep out some
I'd rather meet the trash can than the bear. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/20...-asheville-man-face-to-face-bear/11678166002/
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Commented in ChatGPT banned in Italy
ChatGPT mainly talks in English and Italy is going to ban English. Meh! Clearly the Italian government has sorted all the economic problems and is looking around for important things to do.
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Commented in Meta & Google shouldn't be allowed to bully their way out of paying for news
Stealing news? Utter rubbish. Newspapers have been killed by the internet. Newspapers have always been primarily vehicles that sell ads with a little news thrown in to get you to buy them. Bundling just doesn't work in the internet age. What is killing newspapers is internet advertising. Many companies publishing directly. Getting the government to tax the organisations sending readers to news sites could well end up making the situation of news sites worse.
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Commented in Meta would end Canadians’ ability to view and share news under Bill C-18
Just another tax.
The committee also complained that Google had failed to comply with a request that it produce internal documents about its response to Bill C-18. Members said the company had produced only public information.
Did they produce all the internal lobbying documents that went into this link tax bill?
Mr. Rodriguez said it is “disappointing to see that Facebook has resorted to threats instead of working with the Canadian government in good faith.”
It's a threat to pull a service that is a gift to Canadian media? It's what they want isn't it? Facebook not to benefit of the media, one way or another?
Frankly facebook without news would be a better facebook.
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Commented in ‘Lab leak’ report energizes Republicans’ covid probes
The steps the media takes:
"That's a conspiracy theory."
"You're crazy if you believe that conspiracy theory."
"Ok, you may be right, but it's not what you think."
"You're right, but that's old news."
Followed by never talking about it again.
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Commented in ChatGPT has only been around for 2 months and is causing untold chaos
The "chaos" will settle down as soon as it will be a paid service.
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Commented in The promise of batteries that come from trees
This is hopeful news for the future of our planet.
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Commented in How many more warning signs does Mark Zuckerberg need to see before he pulls the plug on his metaverse?
I'm pretty sure he will not pay out of pocket for this "venture". Most of his riches are in stocks, where he got hit pretty bad the past few months. His wife is also involved in his pledge, "the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative", to hand out 99% of their Meta (at time of the pledge still Facebook) stocks. Let them roll like this, since those kind of pledges are mostly done to avoid even more taxes and to gain political influence. So, in that light: let that company crash hard. Let those fuckers bleed as dry as the Sahara, or wait no, even better: as dry as Dry Valleys in Antarctica. As a European I'm normally a guillotine kind of guy, but why waste energy (which is expensive) and let them all do it to themselves. Also: bigger entertainment-factor. :-)
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Commented in Scientists Find a New Coronavirus in Bats That Is Resistant to Current Vaccines
If TWIV does a program on this,I'll post the link.
“We don’t want to scare anybody and say this is a completely vaccine-resistant virus,” Letko says. “But it is concerning that there are viruses circulating in nature that have these properties—they can bind to human receptors and are not so neutralized by current vaccine responses.”
The good news is that Letko’s studies show that, like the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, Khosta-2 does not seem to have genes that would suggest it could cause serious disease in people. But that could change if Khosta-2 starts circulating more widely and mixing with genes from SARS-CoV-2. “
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Commented in Morgan Stanley Fined $35 Million for Not Encrypting HDDs, Servers
Looking at all the ridiculous low fines these huge ass companies get, you'd think that their money and power seems above the law. Just look at what they got their tiny fine for: not securing their customers' money, which is in total even way more than their gross profit. More or less up for grabs for a bit of a decent hacker. And let's face it: yearly billions get stolen from banks and financial institutions. And never return, also.
Let me explain. I have a cousin who was for years the network manager for Fortis (and ABN Amro), two "small" players in the banking world. He was responsible for everything computer network in the BeNeLux of those institutions. No matter how hard they tried to harden the safety of their networks and computers (including all kinds of encryption), an average of 250 to 450 million Euro got stolen every year. Every. Year. I kid you not. Let that sink in. Extrapolate that to all the institutions all over the world. That's billions every year. Now, it's understandable that doesn't hit the news all too much, because that's really shitty publicity, but it's money that does not belong to those institutions. It belongs to their clients. From hedgefund managers to mom-and-pop-shop owners, from hard working people to pensioners.
And from that perspective you shouldn't trust banks or financial institutions and the government should seriously step up their game to hold banks and financial institutions responsible for their (conscious) negligence.
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Commented in Major blow for One America News as Verizon Fios drops far-right network
So why does Fox "News" get a free pass?
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Commented in Windows Refund Day - When Linux Users Demanded Their Money Back
I remember this and started following Linux news on line. The Lindows(later changed to Linspire) pissing contest really got me interested..Then XP did some astoundingly stupid stuff..I got the Linspire disk (with KDE.3 whatever) and ran it live for three days..Fell in love and installed Linspire. Still using Linux distros after all these years.(Ubuntu MATE).
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Commented in Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
All those are true,especially the first one. I quit the news over 20 years ago,till covid..Now that covid's less in the spotlight again I quit. People are astounded hoiw I ignore the news.