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Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction intended to open up iOS App Store payments. That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will “do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwide, I think.” The ruling, signed by a…
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Immigration officials cannot rearrest Kelmar Abrego Garcia without a hearing and an order from a federal judge

Immigration officials cannot rearrest Kelmar Abrego Garcia without a hearing and an order from a federal judge

💥 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: immigrants,immigration,Kilmar Abrego Garcia,u.s. immigration and customs enforcement 💡 Key idea: BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge blocked U.S. immigration authorities Friday from redetaining Kelmar Abrego Garcia, saying she feared he could be detained again just hours after she ordered him released from a detention center. The order came when Abrego Garcia showed up at an scheduled appointment at an ICE field office roughly 14 hours after being released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania. Read more: Kelmar Abrego Garcia was released from an immigration detention…
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Flavored condoms, 120 turkeys, and a free poster of Marlon Dingle: The Weird and Wonderful Work That’s Greening the Film Industry | film

Flavored condoms, 120 turkeys, and a free poster of Marlon Dingle: The Weird and Wonderful Work That’s Greening the Film Industry | film

💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Women,Women,Film industry,Homelessness,Business,Culture,Housing,Life and style,Poverty,Social exclusion,Society 💡 Key idea: IIt's two days before Thanksgiving, and Hilary Cohen and Samantha Lo are trying to figure out how to cook 120 turkeys with limited oven space in their food warehouse in downtown Los Angeles. "We're going to have to do some hacking," Cohen says. "This isn't very showy."It's the busiest time of the year for Cohen and Law, associate directors who founded the nonprofit Every Day Action during the COVID pandemic. The idea was conceived to help homeless people…
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A glitch in a photo booth maker’s website exposes customers’ photos

A glitch in a photo booth maker’s website exposes customers’ photos

✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Security,cybersecurity,Exclusive,hacking,Hama Film,Photo Booths,security vulnerability 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: A company that makes photo booths has exposed photos and videos of its customers online, thanks to a minor glitch on its website where the files are stored, according to a security researcher. The researcher, who uses the name Zeacer, alerted TechCrunch to the security issue in late November after reporting the vulnerability in October to Hama Film, a photo booth maker with franchises in Australia, the UAE and the US, but received no response. Zeacer shared with TechCrunch a sample…
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Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?

Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Head to EFF.org/Age to explore our resources and join us in the fight for a free, open, private, and yes—safe—internet. One of the most common refrains we hear from age verification proponents is that online ID checks are nothing new. After all, you show your ID at…
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New photos from Epstein’s personal collection show Trump, Clinton and much more

New photos from Epstein’s personal collection show Trump, Clinton and much more

🔥 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Bill Clinton,bill gates,Donald Trump news,epstein files,jeffrey epstein,Steve Bannon 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: A newly released set of photos shows the rich and powerful people that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein communicated with, and other glimpses into his lifestyle. The undated photos were taken from Epstein's email account and computer, according to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, who released the photos on Friday. Read more: Never-before-seen photos of Epstein's private island have been released One photo shows Donald Trump before he became president standing with six…
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‘Getting lost is good’: Suspension bridge and floating stairs bring fun and excitement to Taiwan’s great new museum | Art and design

‘Getting lost is good’: Suspension bridge and floating stairs bring fun and excitement to Taiwan’s great new museum | Art and design

🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Art and design,Art,Culture,Taiwan,Exhibitions,Museums,Architecture ✅ Key idea: WWalking around the new Taichung Art Museum in central Taiwan, directions are an abstract concept. Designed by Japanese architecture powerhouse Sanaa, the complex is a collection of eight skewed buildings, mixing an art museum and a municipal library, covered in silver grid-like walls, with soaring ceilings and winding corridors.Past the atrium – a lively open space that is neither inside nor outside – the visitor wanders around the corridors and ramps, finding themselves in the library one minute and a…
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Zevo wants to add robotaxis to its ride-sharing fleet, starting with newcomer Tensor

Zevo wants to add robotaxis to its ride-sharing fleet, starting with newcomer Tensor

✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Transportation,autonomous vehicles,avs,electric vehicles,Exclusive,zevo 📌 Main takeaway: Self-driving cars are no longer limited to the realm of science fiction thanks to companies like Waymo deploying commercial robotaxi services in multiple cities. A number of automakers, large and small, are trying to bring the same level of autonomy to personally owned vehicles over the next few years. If that happens, what kinds of things can you do with a personal AV? Maybe you'll be able to send it out to pick up food or run errands — the hope of a company…
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SQLite JSON Superpower: Virtual Columns + Indexing

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: We absolutely love SQLite here at DB Pro. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who actively dislikes it. Sure, it has limitations, and I do mean limitations, not weaknesses. SQLite can absolutely be used in production when it's deployed properly and tuned with care. SQLite has also seen something of a resurgence over the past few years. From being forked into projects like libSQL and Turso, to powering popular backend frameworks such as PocketBase, it’s clearly having a moment again. As I said though, we love…
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Maria Balshaw steps down as director of Tate after nine years | culture

Maria Balshaw steps down as director of Tate after nine years | culture

💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Tate Modern,Tate Britain,Art and design,Exhibitions,UK news,Art,Museums,London ✅ Main takeaway: Maria Balshaw will step down as director of the Tate in 2026, after a challenging nine-year tenure when she led the organization through the Covid-19 pandemic and had to deal with fluctuating attendance figures and financial instability.Balshaw, who joined as director in June 2017 after a celebrated spell as leader of Whitworth in Manchester, said it had been an honor to serve as director but now was the time for her to move on.She said: "With an increasingly…
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