Author: Jack Slater
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Trump Fires FBI Director Running Investigation Into Trump’s Campaign
(Now former) FBI Director Comey back in March, quoted by the New York Times: Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was “investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.” Yesterday Trump wrote this letter informing…
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Ben Heck Got That Nintendo Playstation Working
Ben Heck attempted to repair a Nintendo Playstation prototype. It was a console developed in partnership between Sony and Nintendo during the Super Nintendo era. Before Sony decided to go their own way and the project was scuttled, this prototype was developed and made its way into the world. Last year Heck managed to get the unit loading regular…
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Valve Destroys Steam Gifting
Valve’s Kristian (no surname given) with a Steam blog post titled “Steam Gifting Changes”: Today we’re announcing changes to gifts on Steam. The gifting process has had a bunch of friction in it for a while, and we want to make it easier for you to share the games you love with friends. Steam Gifting…
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Flint’s Water Situation is Still Screwed Up
Stephanie Parkinson: Thousands of people in Flint are at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure if they don’t pay up on their water bills. After recently putting out shut-off notices the city is now back to threatening tax liens on people’s homes. This is water that is still not potable, and has been broken…
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Windows 10 Something Went Wrong Edition
Microsoft just announced a new laptop Surface device, it’s $1000 and comes with an intentionally broken version of their Windows 10 operating system. Matt Weinberger: The one thing to know is that the Surface Laptop is the poster child for Windows 10 S, a new version of the operating system that Microsoft says is more…