Mass shooting in Austin, Texas, leaves at least 14 wounded

At least 14 people were injured early Saturday in a mass shooting in a busy entertainment district in downtown Austin, according to police in the Texas city. “This is one of the most significant incidents that we’ve ever had happen in our city,” interim Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon said during an afternoon news conference. The first call of shots fired came in around 1:24 a.m. CT, he said, adding that the street was barricaded to keep out crowds and vehicle traffic at the time of the… Source link

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Packers president Mark Murphy calls Aaron Rodgers ‘a complicated fella’

There’s still no movement on the situation between Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. He didn’t report for the team’s mandatory minicamp earlier in the week, and the Packers haven’t given any clues about what they have done or plan to do to get him back on the field.  So in the absence of any new information (or any information he wanted to share), Packers president Mark Murphy broke out an old quote from the late, legendary Packers GM Ted Thompson to describe Rodgers at a Lambeau… Source link

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Like Google Chrome, Chrome OS will be moving to a four-week release schedule

Google will be adjusting the release cycle for Chrome OS later this year, moving to a schedule where it launches a new release every four weeks, the company announced on Friday. “To deliver new features more rapidly to consumers while also continuing to prioritize the key pillars of Chrome OS – security, stability, speed and simplicity – Chrome OS will move to a 4-week stable channel starting with M96 in Q4,” Chrome OS release TPM lead Marina Kazatcker said in a blog post. For… Source link

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Why You Suddenly Need To Stop Using Google Chrome

Google dominates the browser market with Chrome—most of you will be users. But Chrome is now crossing into new, uncharted territory, with new tracking technology that has been described as “creepy” and a “significant risk” to users. And so, if you are one of those 2.65 billion users, it looks like now is the time to quit. Chrome has been under fire for its new tracking technology for some time, but now we have a more detailed technical analysis of the very serious risks to… Source link

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10 Undervalued Blue Chip Stocks Hedge Funds Are Piling Into

In this article we discuss the 10 undervalued blue chip stocks hedge funds are piling into. If you want to skip our detailed analysis of these stocks, go directly to the 5 Undervalued Blue Chip Stocks Hedge Funds Are Piling Into. The stock volatility of the past few months has illustrated that the market is now in a constant state of turmoil as technology stocks with astronomical evaluations continue to hog investor interest, offering little in terms of stability and security for the long… Source link

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Over a dozen hurt in shooting incident early Saturday

Reuters Videos Shooting in Texas capital leaves 14 wounded Fourteen people were wounded during a mass shooting in Austin, Texas early on Saturday.Police said two men opened fire at each other in the Sixth Street area, a popular nightlife destination in the state capital.One of the two suspects is still at large.Austin Police Department Interim Chief Joseph Chacon said it was an isolated incident between the two parties.”Our first 911 call was received at 1:24 a.m., and were followed by… Source link

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‘Extremely cruel move:’ Jobless workers brace for early end to unemployment benefits in 25 states

On Saturday, the $380 in weekly jobless benefits Robyn Gregorieff and her husband had depended on for basic needs is getting slashed by 79%, leaving the couple with just $80 a week to live on. She would have been entitled to the larger amount until September if her home state of Alaska didn’t cancel federal unemployment programs early due to mounting concerns over labor shortages. “It makes no sense because the federal government is paying that,” the 43-year-old Gregorieff told Yahoo… Source link

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Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users

Google Chrome is by far the world’s most popular browser with well over two billion users, but all those users need to be high alert because Google has just issued an urgent upgrade warning.  Google Chrome users are being urged to upgrade after a serious vulnerability was found in the … [+] browser LightRocket via Getty Images ADVERTISEMENT MORE FROM FORBESGoogle’s New Tab Groups Reinvigorate Chrome BrowserBy Gordon Kelly Picked up by BleepingComputer, a new ‘zero… Source link

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Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade Gets Its 90% Mandate

Taproot, the most significant improvement to Bitcoin’s protocol in years, now has enough mining support to lock in activation. According to the parameters set forward by “Speedy Trial,” if at least 90% of the blocks mined in any of the designated 2-week difficulty periods “signal” their support for the upgrade, then the activation process can begin. To be more precise: 1,815 out of 2,016 blocks mined within a period have to include a little piece of encoded information that… Source link

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Billionaires pay no taxes while workers get no raises

The big takeaway from the past week in business news is that A) secretly released documents show that billionaires aren’t paying their fair share in taxes. (Gee, you think?) And meanwhile, B) hotels and restaurants and other businesses can’t find enough people to work as maids and dishwashers, etc. If that doesn’t get your “hmmm” juices flowing, I don’t know what will. Let me explain by first going through the A and B elements and then speak to how they’re connected.  The billionaire… Source link

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