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France says it plans legal complaints against AliExpress and Joom over the sales of childlike sex dolls; Temu, Wish, eBay, and more are also under investigation (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
France says it plans legal complaints against AliExpress and Joom over the sales of childlike sex dolls; Temu, Wish, eBay, and more are also under investigation  —  Commerce minister calls for end to ‘digital wild west’ as Shein awaits ruling on three-month French ban

Wake Up Dead Man brings some horror into the Knives Out series

Daniel Craig and Rian Johnson's latest Benoit Blanc mystery takes a turn for the gothic.

Sources: ByteDance is in talks to sell game studio Moonton, which it acquired for ~$4B in 2021, to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games; Moonton makes Mobile Legends (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: ByteDance is in talks to sell game studio Moonton, which it acquired for ~$4B in 2021, to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games; Moonton makes Mobile Legends  —  TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. is in talks to sell gaming studio Shanghai Moonton Technology Co. to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games Group …

Medical Student Practices Fat Shaming On Cadaver

INDIANAPOLIS—In an effort to get hands-on experience stigmatizing patients’ bodies in a safe environment, Indiana University medical student Dylan Loera confirmed Wednesday that she was practicing fat shaming on a cadaver. “At first it felt strange, but the opportunity to practice saying, ‘Have you tried losing a few pounds?’ in the flesh is so different […]

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You’re buying a Frame TV? It’s okay to cheap out a little

Let's get this out of the way: The Samsung Frame is not a good TV. None of the displays that I'd classify as art TVs are - at least not in the ways that we usually think about TVs. They only get a fraction as bright as comparably priced TVs, picture quality is middling, black […]