TheFallenC073 (CEO of wood chippers)

🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!! Over 100 Flock cameras that were set to "go dark" at the end of June after city council voted to shut them down... ...have bizarrely just REMAINED ON and the police are still using them On June 17, the city council's safety committee voted to END the contract because when they asked police to prove these cameras actually reduce crime, the police could point to only 3 cases that led to convictions. So the city council let the contract expire on June 29th, but then people noticed the cameras were still up... ...because Flock VOLUNTEERED to keep running them for FREE while the city "figures it out." In fact, police confirmed they are still running them to "keep the community safe" and the company agreed to keep the system live, despite the contract expiring. It gets worse. When reporters asked simple questions like... is data still being collected? Do the cameras shut off or keep recording? Who can access what was already stored? It turned out that neither the city NOR Flock would answer. So just to recap: The contract is expired. The elected body said no. Nobody re-authorized it. Flock won't say what it's doing with the data. ...but the cameras are STILL ON and being used by police

KIDS act passed the house

Xbox has begun ending contracts and canceling vendors, which has lead to Xbox’s PR agency to begin layoffs today The larger layoffs internally expected soon (via Bloomberg)

Caller: “I’m 71, no retirement savings, and my husband and I are overwhelmed by debt”. Dave: What’s coming in, and what do you have? Caller: $2,000 a month from Social Security, $2,000 from my job, but it’s physically demanding. We have $25,000 in cash, owe $27,000 on our $250,000 house, owe on a car, and own a roadster worth about $10,000. Dave: Sell the roadster, that $10,000 clears the car debt right now. Caller: Okay. Dave: Then live like you’re completely bankrupt no eating out, nothing extra and throw everything at that $27,000 left on the house. Your job’s physical and your income won’t last forever, so get the house paid off while you can. Caller: And if we can’t get there? Dave: Then sell the $250,000 house, buy a $100,000 condo, and turn the remaining $100,000 plus into a retirement fund. That alone would take a huge weight off you.

Microsoft could reportedly shut down four Xbox studios if it can’t find buyers for them, according to a new GamesBeat report citing sources familiar with the company’s plans. The studios named are: >Double Fine Productions >Undead Labs (State of Decay) >Compulsion Games (South of Midnight) >Ninja Theory (Hellblade) GamesBeat says Microsoft is exploring the possibility of selling these studios to preserve jobs. If no buyers are found, the report claims the studios could be closed, putting around 435 jobs at risk: >Double Fine: about 100 jobs >Undead Labs: about 110 jobs >Compulsion Games: about 90 jobs >Ninja Theory: about 135 jobs The report also says Microsoft is expected to begin a new round of Xbox layoffs in early July following the end of its fiscal year.

A new study suggests Gen Z is aging faster than previous generations, possibly resulting in early-onset cancers via: WashU Medicine

The state of gaming rn

🚨 Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has been caught using AI to write legislation, after the phrase "Claude responded" was accidentally left in her bill's text. Her excuse: she was only using it to "spell-check" the national defense bill.

I can’t wait to return to Zeta Halo