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There's one essential Star Wars comic you need to read before Maul: Shadow Lord
Netflix owes Italian subscribers up to €500 after court rules its price hikes were illegal
In short: The Court of Rome has ruled that Netflix’s repeated price increases between 2017 and 2024 violated Italian consumer law and EU Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair contract terms. The ruling voids the relevant contract clauses, orders current prices rolled back to 2015 launch levels, and requires Netflix to notify millions of current and former Italian […]
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Vibe coding is flooding Apple’s App Store, and Apple is fighting back
In short: AI-powered “vibe coding” tools have driven an 84% jump in new app submissions to Apple’s App Store in a single quarter, according to reporting by The Information, the largest surge in a decade. The flood is straining Apple’s review infrastructure, with approval times ballooning from 24 hours to as many as 30 days. Apple […]
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An Easter Morning Message of Hope From the Winner of the FIFA Peace Prize
Donald Trump, sitting president of the United States, on his blog:
Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
The Iranian embassy in Japan, quoting Trump:
This low level of civility and intelligence shown by a leader of a country is regrettable; the shameful fervor with which intentions to commit war crimes are repeated is staggering; and the fact that the Divine is invoked regardless of ill intentions clearly exposes deep fanaticism. Apologies for sharing this language.
It’s getting harder to tell which side is the authoritarian theocratic regime run by demented hateful nut jobs. (You Crazy Bastards would be an excellent title for a book on the Trump 2.0 administration.)