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📄 TIL the three actors in The Blair Witch Project signed a contract with a clause that allowed the studio to use their real names "for the purpose of this film". So when their identities were used again in the sequel without their permission, they sued the studio and won a settlement of $300,000 each.
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📄 Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown | "When you come to work, you get paid. If you don't come to work, you don't get paid."
📄 A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke
📄 Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas | Violations include digging without permits and dumping wastewater into storm drains.
📄 Noem’s propaganda video machine turns to airport lines | A captive audience of US travelers will be getting a new message from a top US government officials: It’s all Democrats’ fault.
📄 California Lets Residents Opt-Out of a Ton of Data Collection on the Web | If you live in the Golden State, you're going to like this.
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📄 RPG devs stopped making games like Baldur's Gate 'because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them', says New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer
📄 Battlefield 6 is EA's biggest Steam launch ever, passing 700,000 concurrent players in under an hour and finally dethroning Apex Legends for EA's all-time record
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📄 Our AWS monitoring costs just hit $320K/month ~40% of our cloud spend. When did observability become more expensive than the infrastructure we're monitoring?
📄 AWS GenAI is a perfect example of enterprise complexity pretending to be a developer-friendly tool
