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Daily Tech News 29 December 2024

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Giving people money doesn't stop them being poor. (Yahoo)

Another UBI study fails without even asking the fundamental question of where the money comes from.
Neither does taking their money. (Tech Crunch)

Lyft is suing San Francisco for overcharging the company $100 million in taxes.
Neither does charging interest on their loans. (MSN)
All told, Warner borrowed a total of about $60,000 for her two advanced degrees. The amount seemed reasonable given the career trajectory that both credentials promised, but that path never materialized. Working a series of low-wage jobs, she went in and out of forbearance before ultimately defaulting. The balance ballooned to the current $268,000 total over the years due to collection fees and interest capitalization.
Warner was 30 when she took out the loan for her law degree. In the 1980s.

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The leading cause of death for airline passengers is now being shot down by Russia. (WSJ) (archive site)

Oops. Oopsie.

The second leading cause of death is Boeing.

Update: Sadly these statistics may already be outdated.
VW leaked data for 800,000 of its cars. (Car Scoops)

This doesn't include your payment information. Just where you live, where you work, where you go shopping, where your kids go to school, and indeed the GPS coordinates of everywhere your car ever went, because of course VW was recording that and storing it on an unsecured cloud server.
Speaking of unsecured cloud servers, Adobe is doing its part in making more of them. (Bleeping Computer)

If you are still using ColdFusion, first, why? And second, it's time to update.
Russia is planning to launch a home-made gaming console using the Elbrus CPU. (Tom's Hardware)

And then shooting it down.
President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to pause President Joe Biden's plan to shut down TikTok. (Tech Crunch)

While I favour shutting down TikTok for the simple fact that the Chinese social network is banned in China, the plan takes effect the day before Trump takes office.

Disclaimer: Who let the cats out?

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The amount seemed reasonable given the career trajectory that both credentials promised, but that path never materialized. Working a series of low-wage jobs, she went in and out of forbearance before ultimately defaulting. The balance ballooned to the current $268,000 total over the years due to collection fees and interest capitalization. Warner was 30 when she took out the loan for her law degree. In the 1980s. Tech News The leading cause of death for airline passengers is now being shot down by Russia. (WSJ) (archive site) Oops. Oopsie. The second leading cause of death is Boeing. Update: Sadly these statistics may already be outdated. VW leaked data for 800,000 of its cars. (Car Scoops) This doesn't include your payment information. Just where you live, where you work, where you go shopping, where your kids go to school, and indeed the GPS coordinates of everywhere your car ever went, because of course VW was recording that and storing it on an unsecured cloud server. 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