Richard Lawler

Two days after someone shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, police located the “distinctive” backpack the attacker was wearing. They removed it from Central Park, unopened, using an excavator.

As many people, including Peak Design CEO Pete Dearing, noticed, it appears to be the company’s Everyday V1 backpack, as shown in a photo obtained by ABC News.

Whether it’s during Bandcamp Friday or not, buying music sends more money to musicians than playing a subscription stream. So, it might be worth celebrating this event where Bandcamp waives its cut of the money you spend one last time for 2024 as it continues for the next seven hours or so.

Bandcamp has changed hands twice and had significant layoffs since the pandemic tradition started; we’ll see if it continues in 2025.

Someone has, for some reason, launched a campaign on Enron.com claiming a “bold new vision.” However, as many have pointed out, the site’s TOS identifies its information “first amendment protected parody,” in addition to what Sean O’Kane points out about its crypto / merch pitch.

ABC 7 Bay Area reports that last night in Piedmont, CA, a Cybertruck “jumped the curb, struck a cement wall, and then wedged in between the wall and a tree,” according to officials who said speed was a factor. Like a fatal Cybertruck wreck in August, it then caught fire.

One person was pulled from the vehicle by another driver, and they are recovering from burn wounds.

Today, a Hugging Face employee published data from 1 million Bluesky posts scraped from its API to the AI repository. He’s removed it and apologized, but 404 Media notes the set was “trending” all day.

Bluesky says it’s looking into ways to “specify consent (or not) for AI training.” but acknowledges that “It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings.”

The former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios and current head of indie initiatives has been a part of PlayStation since it started in 1993, but now he’s leaving in January.

Shuhei Yoshida (aka @yosp) explains on the official podcast and in another in-depth interview that he felt it was time and that PlayStation is in good hands.

As 404 Media and others note, Elon Musk’s X has inserted itself into The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars, arguing that neither Alex Jones nor the estate handling his bankruptcy owns the associated social media accounts.

Since X simply grants a license for their use, the lawyers say that can’t be transferred without permission.