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The Los Angeles Police Department has created a YouTube channel devoted to cataloging all of the sick rubber bullet shots their officers landed on defenseless protesters, sources confirm.

“Okay, okay, just let me pop a few off indiscriminately into this crowd to clear my head, and I’ll try again,” said Officer Raymond Cole, narrating his thought process after missing a shot. “Okay. Got a few there. Good hits, good hits. I’m good, now. I’m gonna headshot that guy on the corner who’s not wearing any head protection. Boom! Nailed him! And he was only, like, twenty feet away! These less-lethal launchers were designed to shoot at targets no less than fifty meters, officially making this an elite LAPD trickshot.”

Some of the individuals featured on the YouTube channel have expressed their disapproval of the LAPD. [...]

Emphasizing that the threat against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem remained active and ongoing, the FBI issued a statement Friday warning that a second California senator was still at large. “While Alex Padilla has been safely taken into custody, we urge the public to be on the lookout for an additional, extremely dangerous senator from the same state who remains able to voice opinions if given the opportunity,” said an FBI spokesperson, who displayed a composite drawing of an older man in a navy blue suit and explained that the sketch had been based on eyewitness descriptions of the fugitive senator. [...]

With the unpredictable Trump regime running the US and looming climate catastrophe, analysts Hugh White and Emma Shortis call for a fresh approach to our security.

Intel has quietly submitted its patches for BMG-G31 GPU SKUs in the Mesa open-source graphics driver library. With IDs e220, e221, e222, and e223, Intel is gearing up the launch of its higher-end "Battlemage" B770. [...]

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Feature: Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts

[...] Hyperscale datacenter operators will buy most of them and have become HDD manufacturers' largest customers. The Register understands cloud and social media outfits order giant batches of HDDs and that diskmakers tailor products to their needs.

Sales of hard disks to non-hyperscale businesses are therefore increasingly rare – and when they do buy, they eschew high-performance machines, according to Gartner VP analyst Julia Palmer.

"Buyers in the primary workloads (block storage) market are increasingly focusing on all-flash storage and exploring quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs as a more cost-effective flash option," she told The Register. [...]

Among the most active Hololive English branch members is Kiara Takanashi, a Vtuber who is coming up on her fifth year performing with Cover. She’s also quite prolific, working on original songs, covers, conducting interviews on Holotalk, and streaming games. Siliconera got a chance to catch up with her following the release of “Perfume” to talk about her latest song, other tracks, and plans for the future.

We’ve all been there: a long drive home, boredom creeping in. Driving can be so mind-numbingly dull that you find yourself browsing the latest mobile games on your phone’s app store. No worries! There’s a game for every driving situation! Here are the 20 best mobile games to play while driving.

The U.K. banned the possession of ninja swords in a bid to curb what it has called a “national knife crime crisis,” carrying a penalty of up to six months in jail for the possession of one. What do you think?

“Leaving them defenseless against the return of the Tokugawa shogunate?” -Joy Tenberg, Wildlife Promoter [...]

Police in South Carolina engaged in a not-so-hot pursuit as they chased a tractor excavator down a main highway for more than an hour at the speed an average adult walks.

The chase reached speeds of 3 mph (4.8 kph) early Sunday morning in North Charleston, police said. [...]

It is, apparently, always possible for there to be less clothing.

After he was forcibly removed from a press conference held in Los Angeles yesterday by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Democrats in the House of Representatives backed a resolution Friday that thanked federal agents for handcuffing Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA). “We express gratitude to law enforcement for bravely apprehending a sitting U.S. senator who expressed dissent in a public forum,” read the resolution, which won the support of 75 Democrats and praised both FBI and Secret Service agents for risking their lives to throw Padilla to the ground, handcuff him, and drag him outside. [...]