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New Orleans Loses Bid to Tax Music Streaming Service ( natlawreview.com )
The New Orleans Collector of Revenue (“Collector”) failed in its attempts to subject music streaming services to the City’s sales tax. In* *Apple, Inc. v. Collector of Revenue of the City of New Orleans et. al., Docket No. L01283 (May 2, 2024), the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, Local Tax Division, analyzed the...
Rescuers struggle to find helicopter carrying Iranian president (live updates) ( www.washingtonpost.com )
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi** **crashed in foggy weather Sunday, according to state-run media, which said Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials were also on board. Their condition is not yet known, and the helicopter has not been found.
Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting after recommendation from pardons board | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott....
Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard ( www.thedailybeast.com )
A Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia on Wednesday after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff....
Magician David Copperfield Accused of Grooming, Groping, and Drugging Women ( www.rollingstone.com )
Magician David Copperfield is facing allegations of drugging women before sexual encounters, groping women during live performances, and behaving inappropriately with women who were significantly younger than him — including under 18 — in a new investigative piece in The Guardian....
A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. ( www.texastribune.org )
Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for...
Justice Department says Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 Max crashes ( apnews.com )
The Justice Department has determined that Boeing violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft, prosecutors told a federal judge on Tuesday. ...
Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested' ( www.rawstory.com )
Donald Trump's former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it....
EA boss thinks ads in triple-A games would be 'meaningful' growth driver ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
What could help triple-A games get even bigger right now? According to EA CEO Andrew Wilson, the answer lies in ads....
Bandai Namco records highest net sales to date in 2023. Armored Core 6, Tekken 8 and Elden Ring perform well ( automaton-media.com )
MI5 sorry over handling of machete attack case ( www.bbc.com )
MI5 has apologised for failing to promptly disclose information to a woman who was attacked with a machete by one of its agents....
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip ( arstechnica.com )
The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday....
Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance - Aftermath ( aftermath.site )
In recent times, triple-A publishers have repeatedly had their lunch eaten — at least, in terms of mindshare — by more creatively nimble indies. Lethal Companywas last holiday season’s breakout hit, andPalworld followed not long after. Balatroand Manor Lords have come out of nowhere to tear up the Steam charts, as...
Boeing 737 skidded off runway in Senegal airport, injuring 10 people ( apnews.com )
A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off the runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, a statement from the country’s transport minister said in a statement on Thursday....
With the closure of Tango Gameworks, Xbox sends an accidental message: it is not a platform for fans of Japanese games ( www.vg247.com )
More than anything, though, it’s a gut punch because it sends a message. The wrong message, really. Xbox had one major studio in Japan - no more. Xbox is making deals with third parties and independent creators, yes - it’s got something in the pipes with Hideo Kojima, for instance - but like I said, the first party is your...
Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next. ( www.propublica.org )
ProPublica has found the NYPD site for allowing the public to track officers’ misconduct is shockingly unreliable. Cases against officers frequently vanish from the site for days — sometimes weeks — at a time. The issue affects nearly all of the officers in the database, with discipline disappearing from the profiles of...
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio ( www.theverge.com )
Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Reportedly Due Out This Financial Year - IGN ( www.ign.com )
EA is reportedly ready to finally release Dragon Age: Dreadwolf this financial year....
Florida deputies who fatally shot US airman burst into wrong apartment, attorney says ( apnews.com )
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday....
Biden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally ( apnews.com )
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah — the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza — over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there....
'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch ( animehunch.com )
The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse....
Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence ( www.npr.org )
The turning point for Destonee was a car ride....
Angry Vendors Say They Were Deceived By Ottawa Book Festival Featuring Far-Right Convoy Speakers ( pressprogress.ca )
Melisa Ruscsak, an American book publisherwho drove eight hours from Ohio to attend what she thought was going to be the “second biggest book fair in the world,” said the whole thing was “just weird.”...
Chicago police won't discipline 9 officers tied to Oath Keepers extremist group ( chicago.suntimes.com )
Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol....
Kyoto legal bureau worker accused of assaulting subordinate for spoiling manga plot - The Mainichi ( mainichi.jp )
An official at the Kyoto District Legal Affairs Bureau who allegedly grabbed and kicked a subordinate for revealing the plot of the popular manga "Oshi no Ko" has been reported to public prosecutors on suspicion of assault, sources familiar with the case have disclosed....
Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher ( www.404media.co )
A small publisher for speculative fiction and roleplaying games is shuttering after 22 years, and the “final straw,” its founder said, is an influx of AI-generated submissions....
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died ( www.seattletimes.com )
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection. ...
Columbia University community 'shattered' after police raid ( www.bbc.com )
Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home - classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air....
Fired Google workers ousted over Israeli contract protests file complaint with labor regulators ( apnews.com )
Dozens of Google workers who were fired after internal protests surrounding a lucrative contract that the technology company has with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labor regulators in an attempt to get their jobs back....
NYPD union sues Adams administration over new ‘zero tolerance’ policy on steroid use among cops ( www.nydailynews.com )
New York City’s largest cop union is suing Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams for implementing a new “zero tolerance” policy on NYPD officers using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, the Daily News has learned....
Emergency Slide Falls Off Plane, Winds Up At Home Of Lawyer Whose Firm Is Suing Boeing ( www.huffpost.com )
An emergency slide that fell off of a Delta passenger jet shortly after take-off last week reportedly turned up two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is coincidently suing the Boeing plane manufacturer over safety issues....
Israeli Minister Reportedly Asks IDF To Kill Palestinians Instead Of Arresting Them ( www.huffpost.com )
The Israeli Defense Force’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, briefed ministers at a security cabinet meeting last week about recent operations in Gaza, where Israel has been carrying out a military offensive for almost seven months now in response to Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 that killed about 1,200 people and captured...
Woman facing eviction told she would cope living on the streets ( www.bbc.com )
A 56-year-old woman who is due to be evicted on 1 May has been told she should be able to "function reasonably well" if she ends up on the streets....
Prosecutors seek to jail Miami mom for posting news stories about cop who shot son ( www.miamiherald.com )
Calling her “an inherent danger to the community,” prosecutors on Friday asked a Miami judge to throw a 51-year-old mother back into jail for posting news articles on Facebook recounting her arrest on charges of stalking a Miami-Dade police officer who had shot and killed her mentally ill son. Prosecutors say Gamaly Hollis...
Paramedic Who Injected Elijah McClain With Ketamine Before His Death Avoids Prison ( www.huffpost.com )
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison and was sentenced to probation Friday after his homicide conviction in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests....
Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages ( www.404media.co )
Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after 404 Media reported on the service, called Spy Pet, last week and verified it was selling access to genuine user...
Activision Blizzard boosts Microsoft financials as Xbox hardware revenue falls ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
More Personal Computing (which houses Xbox) revenue increased by 17% year-on-year during Q3 to $15.6 billion....
Why Idaho's hospitals are having pregnant patients airlifted out of state ( www.nbcnews.com )
Since January, Dr. Stacy Seyb, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Boise, Idaho, has had at least four of his patients wheeled onto emergency flights and airlifted out of the state while experiencing severe pregnancy complications....
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary ( www.technologyreview.com )
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...
Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say ( www.thebaltimorebanner.com )
Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....
Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say ( www.thebaltimorebanner.com )
Baltimore County Police arrested****Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....
Conservatives in LDP lash out over same-sex marriage ruling ( t.co )
Conservative lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have reacted angrily to the Sapporo High Court’s ruling that the lack of legal provisions for same-sex marriage in Japan is unconstitutional....
Bill to allow arming Tennessee teachers with guns heads to the governor's desk ( www.newschannel5.com )
A bill that would allow some Tennessee teachers to carry a gun at school is heading to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk....
Tesla’s in its flop era ( www.theverge.com )
When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...