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View More Newsfrom the gaming-like-it’s-1930 dept It’s finally time! Once again it took us a little while to get through all the entries this year, but we’ve now selected the winners in the latest installment of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! As usual, we’ve got winners in six categories. Plus, at the end, we’ve got some honorable mentions for games that didn’t quite make the cut. Let’s get started! Best Analog Game — Diary of a Provincial Lady by donnabooby When E. M. Delafield published her semi-autobiographical comedy Diary of a Provincial Lady in 1930, it became an…
From today’s decision in Sig Sauer, Inc. v. Bagnell by Judge Victor Bolden (D. Conn.): Jeffrey Bagnell, an attorney, commissioned High Impact, a graphics company, to create an animation purporting to show how a P320 pistol could misfire absent a trigger pull (“uncommanded discharge” or the “Animation”). He later posted that Animation to YouTube and published it on his firm’s website. Part of Mr. Bagnell’s business involves representing plaintiffs who claim that they have been injured by uncommanded discharges from P320s. Sig Sauer … alleg[es] that the Animation constitutes false advertising by inaccurately portraying the firearm’s internal components and safety…
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After a fortnight of war-making against Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, the rocketing of Israel by the Islamists has come to seem almost routine. Here in the Jewish state, people have been growing increasingly pessimistic. Some are despondent. The widespread jubilation that characterised the first days of the war—which saw the surprise Israeli–American decapitation of the Iranian military leadership, including the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, on 28 February and the subsequent devastation of the Islamic Republic’s air defences and ballistic missile capabilities—has given way to a realisation that neither Iran nor Hezbollah will be easily brought…
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A key Ether (ETH) onchain indicator has climbed to its highest level in over three years, a level last seen when ETH bottomed during…
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from the the-kids-are-alright dept We’ve been covering Australia’s under-16 social media ban since before it went into effect, first noting the confusion and obvious…
From Judge John Tuchi’s order last week in Doe v. City of Scottsdale (D. Ariz.): Plaintiff filed a motion for “reasonable accommodations pursuant to…
The SEC’s fresh approval of Nasdaq’s tokenized securities framework marks a key turning point for how stocks could trade in the future: it brings…
Traders are miscalculating the severity and the duration of economic fallout from the Middle East conflict and are pricing in a “TACO” trade, which…
In brief The White House proposed federal AI standards while preserving key state enforcement powers. The framework aims to avoid creating a new AI…