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No shower, no go: Oregon card shop halts Yu‑Gi‑Oh tournaments over player hygiene complaints

BEAVERTON (Oregon), July 1 — An independently owned card shop in Beaverton, Oregon, has suspended its Yu‑Gi‑Oh tournaments for a week after receiving multiple complaints and...

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Jul 1 • 9:34 AM EDT • Technology • malaymail.com
Sony will cease production of discs for new PlayStation games in 2028

New games sold for PlayStation consoles will only be available digitally and won’t be sold on discs effective January 2028, Sony has announced. The move applies to all PlayStation games released from that point on, including those made by Sony and those released by third parties. The PlayStation group calls the change “a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs,” according to a PlayStation blog post reviewed by Game File in advance of its publication. As movies, TV and music have shifted from physical media to an age of downloads and streaming, Sony’s move could speed the demise of physical media in a gaming. The industry has offered consumers games via cartridges, cassettes, floppy discs, CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays across a 50-year stretch. Sony has been reporting to investors in recent years that PlayStation games have been increasingly purchased as downloads, not as discs. The most recent figures show nearly four in five purchases of full games for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 were purchased digitally in the past year. Stats like that may cause today’s news to carry an air of the inevitable. But Sony’s declaration for 2028 is still likely to produce a shock, as the biggest gaming platform on the planet that uses game discs leaves them behind. Discs going away, but the fate of game boxes is unknown Sony is committing to still selling games in physical retailers even after they drop discs in 2028. Just how those games will be sold—in boxes with codes inside, as cards marked with digital redemption codes—is unclear. Digital games will also continue to be sold in the online PlayStation Store. New games released for PlayStation consoles prior to January 2028 will be unaffected by the policy change, Sony says. That means the PS5 games of 2027, be they a new Madden, a new God of War, a new Call of Duty, a new Sly Cooper (one can dream?), would still potentially be offered on disc. PlayStation 6 implications Sony’s timeline for a transition to a no-disc era will also spin up more speculation about the timing and configuration of Sony’s next-generation console, the probable PlayStation 6. “This pretty much guarantees that PS6 won’t arrive until 2028 at the earliest,” Piers Harding-Rolls, senior games research analyst at Ampere Analysis tells Game File. Harding-Rolls also concludes from today’s news that “the base version of a PS6 will not include a physical media drive,” as Sony looks to keep costs down on the device. Sony itself is saying nothing about the PS6 today: not its timing, nor how it might or might not support internal or external disc drives in order to run disc-based PS4 and PS5 games, should the console be backwards compatible. The many signs this was coming Industry support for games being released on physical media has been waning. As has consumer interest in them. PC games effectively went all-digital years ago, thanks to the popularity of playing games through Steam and other digital storefronts. The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that kept much of the global population home helped shift shopping patterns toward downloads. Sony’s own data shows PlayStation game downloads being an uncommon consumer choice a decade ago and now becoming the norm. On consoles, physical media has been in such decline that Sony and Microsoft both launched their current gen Xbox Series and PS5 consoles in 2020 with cheaper versions that lacked disc drives. In early 2024, Phil Spencer, then head of Xbox, told me that ““[w]e ship games physically and digitally, and we’re really just following what the customers are doing.” He added that the game industry had become an outlier in still supporting disc-based entertainment, even as movies and TV have bailed on discs in favor of downloads and steaming: “Gaming consoles themselves have kind of become the last consumer electronic device that has a drive. And this is a real issue, just in terms of the number of manufacturers that are actually building drives and the cost associated with those. And when you think about cogs that we’re going to go put in a console—and as you have fewer suppliers and fewer buyers—the cost of the drive does have an impact.” Last year, the Nintendo’s Switch 2, which uses cartridges rather than discs, introduced the concept of game-key cards, which are physical media that contain no game, just a prompt for a download. Even disc-based games aren’t what they once were, now frequently containing just stubs of games rather than the whole thing. The website Does It Play has tested over 3000 games and found that, for example, that the disc version of this year’s hit 007: First Light, only contained the game’s first mission, with the rest needing to be downloaded. Beyond all that, last week brought the news that Grand Theft Auto VI, likely the biggest game launch this decade, will debut for PS5 and Xbox Series without a disc-based version. Today’s big news comes to you for free. Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and ensure more of my work is possible, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Discs helped define PlayStation However the trends in entertainment may be going, it is still remarkable to see PlayStation ditch discs given their importance in PlayStation history: In the late 1990s, the first PlayStation’s support for games on relatively cheap CD-ROMs instead of traditional game cartridges allowed the upstart console to outmaneuver cartridge-based systems from Nintendo and Sega, as it drove down game prices down in the process. (The cheaper disc format even prompted Final Fantasy VII maker Square to taunt Nintendo in a magazine ad, saying that if the game was “available on cartridge, it’d retail for around $1200.”) PlayStation devices often doubled as machines for watching movies and TV on the latest disc-based formats. In the late 2000s, for example, Sony’s pricy PS3 gained traction as a go-to device for playing then-novel Blu-Ray discs. In 2013, Sony effectively roasted the digital game-sharing restrictions proposed by rival Microsoft for its upcoming Xbox One console by showing how games could be shared for the then-upcoming PS4. In a 21-second clip that has over 20 million views on YouTube, one PlayStation executive simply handed a game box—presumably with disc inside—to another, who said “thanks.” Sony’s possible motivations The PlayStation announcement today cites “consumer preferences” and a shift away from discs among “the broader entertainment industry,” but does not delve into the decision-making process that brought Sony to this point. Sony is not discussing the economics of this move (I asked!), but there are a number of potential factors: Abandoning discs will spare Sony the cost of manufacturing and shipping them, which analysts and industry veterans I spoke to said could account for $1 or so of a game’s retail price. For first-party games, that’s direct savings for Sony, though the amount is limited by the winnowing percentage of people who were even buying the disc-based versions. For third-party games, Sony could pass the savings on to partners or just retain the better profit margin for themselves. As the 2024 comments from Phil Spencer alluded to, leaving discs behind could mean leaving disc-drives behind, allowing Sony to produce consoles more cheaply. Switching to digital-only for games could diminish the risks of copies of new games leaking. It would also seemingly make second-hand sales of used games impossible, pushing more people to buy their own copies of games. These economic benefits for Sony could be boons for the games industry overall, Ampere analyst Piers Harding-Rolls tells Game File. Among other things, it could free publishers and retailers from having to worry about securing an inventory of game discs when trying to sell games, he noted. “If there is a way to streamline the business of games retail, I generally think it’s a good thing for the industry as it removes unnecessary costs,” Harding-Rolls said. “This will help offset pressure on margins from other directions – development and staffing costs for example.” Should the industry shift from game boxes that contain discs to smaller, cheaper game cards, Harding-Rolls said, that reduces pressure on publishers and retailers. “The advantage of everything going digital for the industry is that sales can be tracked much more easily and there is less commercial risk for publishers wanting to continue selling via retail,” he said. The shift to no discs will also likely impact game development timelines, as developers will no longer face the same urgency to have a build ready to submit to PlayStation for the production of a disc, as industry experts noted around GTA VI’s no-disc news last week. Instead, projects may gain weeks of development time, in the event delivery deadlines for platform approval move closer to release date. Preservationists’ likely worries While millions of gamers have shifted to digital, there are still people who associate game discs—and only game discs—with actual ownership of PlayStation games. That portion of the gaming community spoke up last week about wanting to buy a version of GTA VI that they could hold in their hands, could lend to a friend and could potentially pop into a well-preserved PS5 console three decades from now and still see it run. Such gamers didn’t want to worry that they’d merely purchased a digital copy that could lose access to the game if, say, the company behind the game someday turns of the servers that transmit downloadable copies. Digital copies of games are inherently less long-lasting, because consumers aren’t actually buying a game (on a disc), just buying access to the game. The fine print in online gaming shops notes this, as does a recent law that went on the books in California in 2025. That lasw requires game publishers doing business in the state to refrain from words like “sell” when offering digital copies of games, unless they explicitly tell consumers that what’s being sold isn’t the game itself but a potentially revocable license to access it. A Sony spokesperson noted to Game File that “[w]ith all digital content, including games, movies, and music, players are purchasing a personal license for non-commercial use.” Regarding the fears of PlayStation games being lost to time in an all-digital era, the rep also noted that Sony remains “committed to delivering experiences from past generations to the new platforms our players are using.” They noted that PlayStation has used emulation and remasters to keep offering its classic games to modern gamers. It’s true that many consumers have become accustomed to not having physical copies of new music albums or movies, but the relative precariousness of digital copies of games is in fact being highlighted today by…. Sony’s other big announcement: the upcoming closure of the PS3 and PS Vita online stores Sony said today that it will be closing the online marketplaces for its PlayStation 3 console and PS Vita handheld in most countries in July 2027 (sooner elsewhere: August 2026 for the PS3 store Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua; late 2026 for PS3 in other Latin American countries and the Middle East). “We know this news may be disappointing to PS3 and PS Vita players who hold a special place in their hearts for this generation of gaming,” Sony said in its announcement, saying the move “was not an easy decision for us to make.” Sony said that PS3 and Vita marketplaces “are no longer able” to support modern commerce systems, prompting a “need” to close the shops and focus on more modern PlayStation platform stores. The news may spark some deja vu. Sony announced back in March 2021 that it planned to take the PS3, Vita and PlayStation Portable marketplaces offline that summer. The move would have caused some 2,000 digital-only games to become unavailable for new purchasers, according to a VGC analysis at the time. Fans complained loudly. By April 2021, Sony walked back the PS3 and Vita shop closures, with then PlayStation boss Jim Ryan saying “it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here.” This time around, Sony is giving a longer notice period in most regions. The closure of those stores is still likely to cut off access to new purchases of digital-only PS3 and Vita games. The current PlayStation 5 marketplace sells PS5 and PS4 games, as well as a selection of PS1 and PS2 games. It does not sell PS3 games, because games for that platform can’t run on the system (some are offered via a PlayStation Plus streaming option). Vita games also aren’t sold via PS5. Sony says digitally purchased PS3 and Vita games will be downloadable after the stores’ shutdowns “for the foreseeable future.” Sony’s move contrasts with Microsoft’s Xbox platform, which continues to sell and support games from all four Xbox console generations. But it puts it in line with Nintendo, which disabled purchases in the marketplace for its Wii console (a contemporary of the PS3) in 2019. Nintendo discontinued purchases in the online shop for its 3DS portable (a contemporary of the Vita) in 2023. The big questions about Sony’s 2028 post-disc era Will Microsoft follow suit, ending support for new disc-based games on Xbox platforms and therefore all game consoles, too? Whether Microsoft does or not, will third-parties that can no longer release games on discs for PlayStation, simply ditch the disc options across the board? Given the GTA VI no-disc experiment launching this November, will more game publishers decide to forgo disc-based offerings even in 2027? How will no-disc PS5/6 games be packaged and sold in brick-and-mortar retail stores? What becomes of game sharing in an all-digital era? Will Sony modify its current set-up, which currently allows some sharing of digital games across a pair of consoles, to allow more casual lending? (See for example, Nintendo’s year-old system of letting players lend a digital game to another player in a “family group” for up to 14 days.) Will there be a version of a PS6 with a disc drive? Or will a drive be offered as an add-on? And how will gamers who want to retain access to PS4/PS5 disc-based games react to whichever configurations Sony chooses to offer? What will the final disc-based PlayStation game be?

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Jul 1 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
Card Shop Suspends Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments Over Smelly Players

An Oregon card shop has halted its Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments for a week after receiving multiple complaints and bad reviews due to smelly players.

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Jun 30 • 3:11 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
It sure looks like Nintendo is planning to upgrade the Switch 2's oft-criticised LCD screen

Following complaints about the quality of the Nintendo Switch 2's LCD screen, the entertainment giant could be looking at updating it.

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Jun 30 • 5:36 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Ohio Casino Control Commission seizes illegal gaming machines from Sidney business

Complaints had been filed alleging that the business was operating gaming machines in violation of state law, prompting an investigation.

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Jun 29 • 12:22 PM EDT • Business • whio.com
Judge agrees to set aside default entered against Jon Prosser in Apple lawsuit

Jon Prosser is getting a new chance to respond to Apple’s complaint over the leak of iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass revamp.

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Jun 22 • 5:41 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Pro-Israel and crypto money roils House Democratic primary

Dark money — and complaints about it — have become the central issue in the 24-candidate field to replace Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland).

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Jun 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Tata's iPhone parts factory faces India health probe after farmer contamination complaints

An Indian state health authority is investigating how liquid discharged from Apple supplier Tata's iPhone components factory has affected farmers, some of whom complained about skin issues from contamination in their farmlands, according to three officials and a document ​reviewed by Reuters.

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Jun 19 • 3:30 AM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Something's missing at this U.S. Open: cursin', kvetchin' and complaints

The first round of this U.S.

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Jun 19 • 1:34 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Businesses encouraged by demolition of Cole Manor Motel in Dallas

Neighbors say fences and demolition plans for Cole Manor Motel are changing the feel on Harry Hines after years of crime complaints.

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Jun 18 • 9:40 PM EDT • Business • nbcdfw.com
Two Maryville restaurants fail initial health inspections

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The restaurants with the failing scores are in Maryville. It was a customer complaint that sent the inspector to a pizza place. The second restaurant is a cafe that serves…

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Jun 18 • 3:26 PM EDT • Health • wate.com
French Quarter business owners press S&WB to wrap up Decatur, St. Peter construction

Gathered at the Original French Market Restaurant and Bar, they complained of inconsistent contractor hours, confusing communications with the S&WB and seemingly unnecessary street closures. They also echoed Mayor Helena Moreno’s criticism of the S&WB’s decision to tear up several blocks at once, as opposed to moving block by block.

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Jun 17 • 4:25 PM EDT • Business • nola.com
Kraft Group files complaint against Town of Foxboro over entertainment licensing - Boston News, Weather, Sports

FOXBORO, MASS. (WHDH) - The Kraft Sports + Entertainment Group filed a complaint against the Town of Foxboro, accusing it improperly charging fees to renewRead More

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Jun 16 • 4:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • whdh.com
Class action lawsuit claims radiology vendor Nano-X Imaging misled investors

The Israel-based manufacturer allegedly made “misleading statements” regarding its business operations and prospects, attorneys charge in the complaint, filed June 12.

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Jun 16 • 3:24 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Brendan Sorsby saga ends after Big 12's 'devastating' legal complaint in the middle of the night
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Jun 16 • 12:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The Apple Watch Ultra 4 Finally Addresses Its Only Major Flaw

Apple addresses size complaints with the Ultra 4, offering a thinner profile while adding advanced hypertension detection and improved battery efficiency.

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Jun 15 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • geeky-gadgets.com
Galaxy S27 Ultra Could Finally Address Endless Customer Complaints Of Older Flagships As Samsung Plans Three Upgrades Next Year

The Galaxy S27 Ultra may finally rectify the mistakes of older flagships as Samsung is rumored to introduce three upgrades in 2027

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Jun 14 • 7:20 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Letters: Bill Plaschke takes heat for Caitlin Clark complaints

Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section share their thoughts on Caitlin Clark, the Dodgers' gay pride effort, gambling and the NBA Finals.

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Jun 13 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Rye Beach parking cuts protested by residents, business owners

The Rye Selectboard is hearing a lot of complaints about its decision to cut about 90 beach parking spaces.

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Jun 13 • 5:46 AM EDT • Business • nhpr.org
Michigan nursing home cited 18 times for health violations in past year

Medicare gave the facility two stars out of five, based on the most-recent state inspection, completed in March, and the previous three years of complaint- and infection control-related inspections.

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Jun 12 • 7:32 PM EDT • Health • mlive.com
BBB reports rise in complaints about businesses manipulating online reviews
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Jun 12 • 12:06 PM EDT • Business • komonews.com
Separated From My MacBook Pro, I Turned to a MacBook Neo. Here’s How It Did

The Neo gave me very few reasons to complain during my week with it.

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Jun 12 • 6:07 AM EDT • Technology • cnet.com
Orange County Business owner arrested following Action 9 investigation

At the time Knight Fence was ‘F’ rated by the Better Business Bureau with other complaints about him taking money

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Jun 11 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • wftv.com
Stellar Blade CEO Brushes Off Complaints About Sequel's Protagonist

CEO Hyung-tae Kim stated that while Evie is 'younger' and 'smaller in size' compared to Stellar Blade's protagonist, the outfits in the sequel will be 'even more appealing' for fans

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Jun 10 • 10:23 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
All the Liquid Glass Changes in macOS Golden Gate

When Liquid Glass launched in macOS Tahoe, Apple faced criticism over how the design looked on the Mac. Some people felt that Liquid Glass in macOS Tahoe was an afterthought with little impact from the design update, while others had issues with contrast, readability, rounded corners, and design consistency. There were long complaint threads on the MacRumors forums and on Reddit, and some people refused to update.

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Jun 9 • 3:11 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
We can create the future of science right now

Paul Litvak is the founder and Executive Director of the Robyn Dawes Institute and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon where he studied emotions and the sunk cost bias. Over 15 years in industry, he solved a wide range of challenging technical problems. At Meta he created models optimizing the ad review process. At Google he ran experiments to measure social influence. At Airbnb, he was a product manager leading machine learning teams optimizing search ranking and price suggestions. He also co-founded and led product at Rhythmic Health, a venture-backed biosensing startup, creating an accurate low cost system using a color changing strip and a smart phone to measure salivary lactate. The bottleneck At this point, it is uncontroversial to say that science needs to stop using the PDF article as the unit of knowledge and currency. The unbearable slowness of scientific publishing, the profit motive and margins: I’m not saying anything new. The PDF also sucks because it’s hard to extract structured information, which makes it hard to do evidence synthesis. As a result, we do much less evidence synthesis than is needed. And evidence synthesis ultimately undergirds most policy and medical decision-making. I can see second-by-second real-time odds for any sporting or newsworthy event, but a school board can’t see the best evidence on whether their 8th graders should be taught algebra. As a society, we don’t treat this as an important problem. Again, not controversial. Not only is the problem well understood, but the solution has already been laid out. What we need is AI-assisted living evidence synthesis - (1) an open knowledge graph of atomic claims, (2) claims linked to evidence, (3) assessment and synthesis of each piece of evidence, and (4) continuous updating with new data. What few realize (yet) is that the technical capacity to build this vision for a significant portion of science already exists. Not only that, scientists and startup teams are already building many of these components. I know this because I’ve been surveying the space and talking to many of the builders. There are some missing pieces: for example, evaluations of how well some of the components work. But at this point, most of what’s missing is a fully end-to-end working integration of all of these parts. In the rest of this essay, I’m going to lay out all the parts of a working living evidence layer for science and who is working on them, and propose concrete next steps for building this system. What’s now possible The diagram above outlines the components of a living evidence synthesis platform, including some of the teams working on each component1. Scientific PDFs are processed into claims with associated evidence. The evidence is subjected to a forensic audit, methodological evaluation and robustness and reproducibility checks. Finally it’s given a weight in a continuously updating synthesis. What follows is a description and status of each component and a few of the teams working on them. Document understanding The first thing you need to be able to do is turn an article into structured data. Mostly that means parsing PDFs. There are often multicolumn layouts that confuse non-specialized PDF to text processing libraries. For scientific papers, there is the added complexity of parsing formulas and tables and figures. This is a really hot area - there are startups offering APIs, and it seems like a new open source package gets posted to Github every few weeks. What follows isn’t exhaustive. A package called GROBID was the state of the art for a while, they didn’t update their package for nearly two years until very recently. In the meantime reducto.ai released an AI powered PDF extraction API, PaddleOCR became popular, IBM released a model called Docling, and both Mistral and Gemini created models and libraries. I also know of at least one other well-funded psychology research group working on a paper parser. By contrast, there are few open evals in this space, with no extensive evals for complex table comprehension in particular. Nonetheless, I’m confident this will be a solved problem soon, given the combination of LLM advances and developer interest. Hypothesis level extraction There has been increasing interest in comprehending the extracted text of papers and linking information to evidence for each hypothesis. A lot of work has already been done. Trialstreamer (Marshall et al. 2020) and RobotReviewer LIVE (Marshall et al. 2023) demonstrated automated extraction of trial population, intervention, and outcome at scale on clinical RCTs. PaperQA2 (Skarlinski et al. 2024) and Ai2 ScholarQA (2024) extended this to retrieval-augmented question answering with citation grounding. Elicit, Consensus, and SciSpace operationalized claim-level extraction for end users. OpenEval (Booeshaghi et al. 2026) is the most recent and most ambitious: 1.96 million atomic claims extracted from 16,087 eLife manuscripts using Claude Sonnet 4.5, grouped into ~299,000 results, with LLM evaluations showing 81% agreement with human peer review on a 2,487-paper subset. None of these solutions link claims to test-statistics, as you would need to evaluate randomized controlled trials. This is why I built the evidence.guide API - to extract hypotheses and associated test statistics from behavioral science papers. The best public eval of this kind of extraction I’m aware of comes from the recent SCORE project - they had humans code thousands of psychology papers to extract their claims by hand. It would be extremely helpful to the world if all scientific PDFs were available as structured open data. I’ve been working to make this happen, both directly at Berkeley and through coordination with large entities I can’t yet speak of; as hard as it is to do, I think it’s possible2. Forensic audit A lot of work has been done on forensic audit, but some gaps remain. Of course, for biology papers that rely on images for evidence, there are a variety of tools (notably Proofig and ImageTwin) to spot anomalies. These are still well short of what sleuths like Elizabeth Bik can do on her own, but these tools are constant companions among fraud analysts. There’s someone working on auditing Excel files for anomalies, and a number of teams are automating numerical checks like GRIM and SPRITE, including Scrutiny project, the INSPECT-SR team as well as statcheck. The regcheck team is building a way to use AI to compare preregistrations to analyses in papers, to ensure there aren’t significant deviations. Nonetheless, there are many other kinds of anomalies to screen for, both public and less publicly known. And there are no formal evals for anomaly detection that I’m aware of. Still, there’s a lot to draw from in this space and I’m pretty certain we will be able to scan papers for most kinds of obvious anomalies in the near future. Methodological review This area has been white hot, though I fear for many of the startups in this space, because this capability may become commoditized. There are at least six different AI peer review companies, including Refine.ink, Reviewer3, ReviewerZero.ai, Q.E.D. Science, Paper Wizard, and Isitcredible. Coarse (a pun on refine) was also recently created as an open source alternative. These systems provide qualitative feedback on the content of papers, spotting methodological weaknesses and mathematical errors. They seem to work pretty well, and many academics report bitterly that they exceed the average quality of typical peer reviewers. But there are few evals here either. What evals exist so far involve using LLM-as-judge (circularity problems abound) or comparing against human reviews of questionable quality. What you’d ideally want is an eval that measures capturing known errors in papers3. Reproducibility and robustness Another active area has been using AI agents to automate computational reproducibility4 and robustness5 checks in papers that report numerical results. For more recent papers where data and code are available, AI agents can see whether they can re-run the analyses and produce the numbers reported in the published paper. In addition to a handful of individual academics who have been experimenting using Claude Code for this, the Institute for Replication is a leading group working on building an end to end system. The evals related to this problem are the most mature, with CORE-Bench (Siegel, Kapoor, Narayanan 2024) and PaperBench (OpenAI 2025) available to benchmark agents on this task. There is also work on getting AI agents to test alternative ways of analyzing the data to ensure the results are robust to small analytic design choices. Synthesis This is the most underdeveloped area where significant investment is required. Although some automated evidence synthesis systems exist — for example, otto-sr is building an AI agent to write systematic reviews — none of these incorporate the full range of paper level signals to weight evidence appropriately. Nor is there anything like an eval or a gold standard for a good systematic review. Arguably Cochrane reviews are the closest we have to gold standard human systematic reviews, though I’ve heard academics in the know complain about their uneven quality. A key question for a synthesis platform is how to weight anomalies and methodological issues in assessing the quality of a piece of evidence. This is an unsolved problem and one I’m very keen to work on. Continuous updating There are many pieces of basic infrastructure available for monitoring for new research and initiating updates. OpenAlex is the current open citation graph. Retraction Watch integrated into Crossref in October 2023. Scite tracks how citations support, contrast, or mention prior claims. The Living Evidence Network demonstrated continuous-update workflows in clinical guidelines. Engineering this is a relatively straightforward task. When you look over this technical architecture and all the progress being made, it’s hard not to be optimistic that a living guide to scientific evidence will be built. The stakeholders are ready The social infrastructure for this is starting to coalesce — it’s not just a pie in the sky academic exercise to imagine this coming into existence. Institutions like the Center for Open Science, the Institute for Replication, the INSPECT-SR, the Living Evidence Network and more are all working on scaling work to improve research quality. Funders are also aligned. The Sloan Foundation has funded living evidence work through COS. Coefficient Giving supports the Institute for Replication and COS. The Astera Institute and the Institute for Progress have shown interest in this space. NIH has established an Office for Replication and Reproducibility. Although there are (very unfortunately) serious headwinds in science funding generally, there is an active group of funders interested in metascience. A brief word about what I’ve been doing at RDI. First, as a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley I’ve been actively figuring out how a non-profit and a public university can conduct and make public the results of large-scale academic article data mining. With some of the money I raised from donors, I commissioned a legal analysis of recent case law and publisher text data mining (TDM) agreements in order to understand whether a massive open data mining of academic articles is possible (with caveats, it is). I’ve also been working to bring together stakeholders in this space, and identify gaps. I’ve also been doing some software development in this space, with more to come. A pilot proposal The assumption undergirding all of this is that an AI, given all this information, would make the right judgment about a scientific claim with lots of conflicting evidence, weighing all the factors appropriately. That’s the hypothesis we need to test. Randomized control trial research is the best place to focus on first. RCTs are used to make many of the important decisions in society - from medical trials to public policy changes. And they use a relatively uniform set of inferential statistics with lots of known and available diagnostics. Behavioral science experiments, within the broader realm of RCTs, should be first used as a testbed whose results can be generalized. Because behavioral science is at the vanguard of open science practices, replications abound (there are thousands of them) to serve as ground truth training data. Key Hypothesis Therefore the pilot would test, in behavioral RCTs that have been replicated, whether the quality of evidence for a claim can be used to accurately predict whether that claim will replicate. Secondary Hypotheses Compared to claims that replicated, non-replicated claims demonstrate a greater share of forensic anomalies in their source literatures. Hypothesis level claim and statistic extraction is accurate enough to scale living evidence without onerous human review costs. Replication prediction is more accurate than prediction markets6 or journal prestige. If all the different quality signals we gather do accurately predict which studies will replicate, then we can use that model to score evidence to power the living evidence layer. Why this is informative regardless of outcome If the pilot succeeds, the architecture extends to medical RCTs (where Living Evidence already operates and integration is mostly about claim representation), then to slices of basic biology with stable replication structure. If it fails, the field learns which quality signals are load-bearing and which ones metascience has oversold. Either result is a contribution to knowing what the literature supports. Implications for funders Because this burgeoning ecosystem of builders already exists, a well-informed philanthropic or government funder could play a crucial catalyzing role in bringing this future about. They could play at least three roles: creating open structured datasets, publishing open benchmarks and incentivizing the solving of key technical challenges. First, open archives of papers that the government maintains, like PubMed, could be turned into structured data amenable to large scale metascience and claim aggregation. I know the US government already has an interest in doing this, though some key open questions remain unanswered. How do you determine the best models and systems for accurately extracting information from papers? How can you establish a robust way to allow researchers to flag errors and correct them? And finally, how do you create a legal regime in working with publishers to maximize the scope of available papers? For the latter, a university or a private philanthropy may be better positioned to make structured data publicly available under journal subscription terms or fair use. Philanthropists or government funders could also coordinate to create or commission benchmarks that evaluate whether important problems have been solved. For example, an open benchmark for claim extraction from a range of different scientific article types would be extremely helpful. Ensuring the underlying data are accurate is vital for creating these evaluations. I’ve discussed opportunistically using various human-created datasets for this purpose, but a consistent problem is that errors in human data make it difficult for them to serve as a gold standard. Finally, with structured data and benchmarks available, the government or private philanthropy could use them to incentivize groups to develop machine learning systems that meet these benchmarks. Prizes are one potentially valuable tool for this. For example, you could establish a prize for a system that accurately updates a living meta-analysis for a small set of claims. Prizes are particularly useful as signals of problem importance, and can help create vibrant ecosystems of public and private research—see, for example the role the government played in kickstarting the current work on nuclear fusion. Conclusion The drawbacks of the current scientific publishing system are known. Scientists agree, metascientists agree, philanthropists agree: the published PDF plus citation graph isn’t the right substrate for maintaining a representation of the evidence base in science. The pieces needed to build the alternative either already exist or are rapidly taking shape. The community is forming around exactly this problem, with concrete partnerships and shared infrastructure. A pilot should start on behavioral science RCTs because that’s the slice of empirical science most amenable to legibility, where replication ground truth is richest, and where the failure modes are best documented. What’s been missing is the galvanizing mission to assemble these pieces into something that works. That’s what I’m proposing to build. *** 1 I have a broader field map that I’ll release publicly soon. This is me, building in public! 2 If this is something that you are excited about, please reach out and talk to me. 3 More on this very soon too! 4 This tests whether, given the code and the data, you can get the same statistics as reported in the published paper. 5 This tests whether the results are the same as a paper’s given alternative analytical decisions in conducting the analysis (like outlier omission). Closely related is the idea of a “multiverse” where you come up with many different ways of answering the same underlying research question with the same data, and test whether the results hold in all those alternative methods. There’s been work on the latter as well. 6 Some of the replications, e.g. those from the SCORE project, had paired the experiments with forecasts from prediction markets. So we get to look at this for free.

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'SNL' icon Jim Downey recalls O.J. Simpson calling every Sunday to complain about 'Weekend Update' jokes at his expense

Before Jim Downey and Norm Macdonald were fired from 'SNL,' O.J. Simpson would call the head of NBC to complain about the duo's 'Weekend Updates' jokes about him.

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Nintendo hit with €35 million fine over Switch Joy-Con drift

Following a French investigation the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF), Nintendo will be forced to pay €35 million over Switch Joy-Con drift. This all started following a complaint from UFC-Que Choisir in September 2020. The National Investigation Service (SNE) of the DGCCRF determined that Nintendo of Europe had committed a misleading commercial practice from 2018...

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Oklahoma Ethics Commission addresses AI in political ads

The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is exploring regulations for artificial intelligence in political ads, focusing on transparency and disclosure after receiving numerous complaints.

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City of Detroit preparing lawsuit against Riverview Health as neighbors report ongoing noise problems

Detroit neighbors in West Village are once again complaining about noise they say is coming from a Riverview Health rehab center on Jefferson Avenue, this time from the facility’s HVAC system.

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Microsoft admits Windows 11's right-click menu is a mess, will let you customize it after years of complaints

Microsoft has confirmed that it'll let you customize the context menu to your liking, which means you'll be able to add or remove items.

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Orange County business owner supplied Iran with U.S. technology, federal prosecutors say

Jamshid Ghomi, 63, of Newport Coast is accused of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to a federal criminal complaint.

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‘I can’t keep this up’: Sebastopol BBQ owner looks for path forward amid enforcement, complaints

A&M BBQ pitmaster Kris Austin is driving 30 miles a day in his diesel truck to shuttle food from his commercial smokers to his restaurant in order to comply with Sebastopol’s zoning code.

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Cannabis companies hid health issues from consumers: Federal lawsuit

The complaint targets companies in 13 states and is brought by consumers who claim the products were deceptively marketed.

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Cannabis companies hid health issues from consumers: Federal lawsuit

The complaint targets companies in 13 states and is brought by consumers who claim the products were deceptively marketed.

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Cannabis companies hid health issues from consumers: Federal lawsuit

The complaint targets companies in 13 states and is brought by consumers who claim the products were deceptively marketed.

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Agency handling protections for Michigan’s mental health patients under scrutiny

The state agency handling complaints and violations for Michigan’s five mental health hospitals came under scrutiny again on Tuesday.

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NJ Sues Delaney Hall Operator After It Refuses Full Access to Health Inspectors

Davenport, Department of Health File Complaint Against GEO Group After Inspectors Are Blocked From Conducting a Full Inspection.

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Android 17 Beta 4.1 finally fixes the Pixel problems folks have been complaining about

We're now one step closer

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Democrats raise doubts about proposed hikes to homestead exemptions

Ahead of the opening gavels, the opposition party memorializes its complaints.

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Increased UK Harassment Liability from October 2026: Is Your Business Ready?

October 2026 will mark a fundamental shift in UK workplace harassment law, significantly raising the stakes for employers and reinforcing a broader move away from reactive complaint handling towards proactive prevention, governance, and risk management.What is Changing?Key legal developments in October 2026 under the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) are:

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I've used Android desktop mode for years, and the Googlebook may fix my biggest complaint

The missing desktop feature may finally arrive

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May 30 • 12:15 PM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com
The ‘Return To Xbox’ Movement Is Starting To Lose The Plot

Microsoft is trying to recapture Xbox magic, but doing so by getting lost in minor complaints from fans, with big solutions nowhere in sight.

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Tested: Windows 11's new Start menu lets you fully customize it, and it works surprisingly well

Windows 11’s new Start menu finally adds smaller layouts, removable sections, and deeper customization after years of user complaints.

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May 29 • 9:47 PM EDT • Technology • windowslatest.com
A party switch last year may bar Hector Mujica from running as a Democrat in CD 28

Mujica’s Primary opponent, Phil Ehr, has already filed an elections complaint challenging his eligibility under Florida’s updated party-affiliation law.

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May 29 • 3:04 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Dakich: sports media has created an ‘industry’ out of complaining about white athletes like Caitlin Clark

OutKick host Dan Dakich rips Cari Champion for accusing Caitlin Clark of WNBA favoritism, calling it part of a broader race-based media pattern.

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May 29 • 1:21 PM EDT • Sports • foxnews.com
Valve Steam Deck Sells Out in 24 Hours Despite Price Hike

The internet has recently been rife with complaints and discussions about the recent price increases to the Valve Steam Deck OLED, which saw prices of the gaming handheld spike by as much as $300. However, that same price increase coincided with the first restock of the Valve Steam Deck in anywhere ...

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May 28 • 11:43 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
Google adjusts Gemini’s new usage limits in response to complaints

At I/O 2026, the Gemini app switched to compute-based usage limits. In response to “feedback about hitting limits too quickly,” Google...

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Fitbit users complain about forced migration to Google Health app

Google replaced the Fitbit app with a new Google Health app with an AI coach. Some users aren't happy.

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May 28 • 12:51 PM EDT • Health • mashable.com
FBI issues serious warning for Outlook, Teams, OneDrive users

The notice came from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.

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Couple sues radiologist claiming he overlooked signs of both cancer and a spinal injury

Jeffrey Robinson first visited the emergency department at Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, in March 2023 complaining of back and stomach pain.

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Supreme Court sides with Trump in dispute over immigration judges' speech restrictions

The justices overturned a lower-court ruling that questioned whether a complaint system for federal employees is still working as intended after the Republican president fired some of its top officials.

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Matt Mahan facing campaign questions, political jabs ahead of CA primary

A pro-Mahan political committee refunded $1 million to Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings, a major backer. Additionally, Mahan faced a corruption complaint related to alleged coordination with a billionaire-funded political action committee.

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Steyer, Becerra clash over paid influencers in CA governor’s race. What to know

The two leading Democrats have filed dueling state ethics complaints against one another.

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Influencer files complaint against Steyer campaign, alleging violations

The influencer said Steyer's campaign committee failed to notify her of her disclosure requirements, as required by law.

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⚖️ Referees' union denounces Florentino Pérez and Real Madrid

The Spanish Association of Football Referees (AESAF) has taken a firm step in defense of the group. The union has filed two complaints with the Anti-Violence Commission, aimed directly at Florentino P...

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NAACP urging athletes, fans to boycott college athletic programs over voting rights complaints

The schools identified by the campaign include Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Clemson, Tennessee, Texas and Texas A&M

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Galaxy S27 Ultra May Finally Address Battery Complaints, As A Design Change And Specifications Upgrade Are In Tow

Samsung could finally address the battery life concerns with the Galaxy S27 Ultra launch, as a new design and upgrade are expected to happen next year

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Five Points businesses say IRONMAN road closures hurt access, customers; city promises better communication

Jacksonville’s first-ever IRONMAN brought nearly 2,000 competitors to a route spanning parts of Duval and St. Johns counties this weekend, drawing crowds downtown, and prompting widespread complaints about traffic, road closures and access issues in neighborhoods like Riverside’s Five Points.

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Mobile County Health Department to begin mosquito spraying Monday

The department says it is beginning mosquito spraying early as mosquito counts and complaints increase

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Hundreds show up to support Rehovot businesses fined for opening on Shabbat

Ice cream parlor Otello and cafe Nook are cited after operating on Saturdays for over a year, leading residents to complain about uneven enforcement of Shabbat policy

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May 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • timesofisrael.com
Knicks Bulletin: ‘The humble warrior’

We’ve reached a point where you can say the Cavs and the Pistons are doing this on purpose to prevent Knicks fans from enjoying New York basketball. But hey, seven games on their legs? Can’t complain! We’re the latest four days and a few hours from the ECF Game 1 tip-off. Finally. Mike Brown On […]

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NFL schedule: Joe Burrow's complaints may have resulted in Bengals hosting Ravens for prime time game
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Florence passes ordinance to curb traffic from nearby businesses

Florence now fines businesses up to $5,000 for car lines that block roads, following complaints about congestion near the new 7Brew coffee shop.

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Watchdog complaint says Let’s Go Washington failed to disclose Brandi Kruse political advertising
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May 12 • 3:10 PM EDT • Politics • king5.com
Trump’s Complaints About Iran War Leaks Prompt Aggressive DOJ Investigations

The Wall Street Journal has received subpoenas for records of reporters.

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May 11 • 5:39 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Colorado ethics panel finds probable cause in complaint against Democrat caucus leader

The colleagues of a Democrat unanimously concluded they have probable cause to believe she committed an ethical violation by mismanaging her party caucus’s funds as its co-chair. The House Ethics Committee was charged with examining a complaint from Rep. Marshall, D-Highlands Ranch, alleging that Rep. Mandy Lindsay, D-Aurora, mishandled and improperly used caucus funds for […]

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Philippine Congress poised to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte

Impeachment complaint seeks Duterte's removal from office and perpetual disqualification from any government post.

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May 11 • 2:51 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
Discord down today: What is wrong with servers? Company addresses API errors - how to fix

Users across multiple regions reported issues accessing Discord today, with many complaining about API errors

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Cups distributed at local restaurant contained led, health officials warn

The public health warning came after Public Health inspectors tested the cups for lead following a customer complaint.

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Pricing and censorship complaints be damned: Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen sold over 4 million units in six weeks

Both versions managed to sell an impressive amount in the first month and a half on sale.

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May 8 • 10:38 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Texas council says more resources needed to address complaints against behavioral health providers

The agency that oversees behavioral health and social work providers has about 1,000 "pending" complaints against providers — hundreds more than it has received in previous years. Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council leadership told lawmakers it may need support from the state to handle the volume.

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May 7 • 9:21 AM EDT • Health • houstonpublicmedia.org
What 3 Ex-OpenAI execs testified about Sam Altman's management style

From complaints of "chaos" to poor communication, see what 3 witnesses said about Sam Altman's management style at the Musk v. Altman trial.

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May 6 • 10:29 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Deepfakes or criminalizing free speech?: ‘It’s politics’ Bozeman attorney says of mailers in complaint

Lewistown resident Dan Bartel's 1,872 mailers with doctored images of Republican state House District 68 candidate Jennifer Carlson of Churchill holding LGBTQ+ pride flags and wearing gender-pronoun buttons is free

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May 6 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • bozemandailychronicle.com
Jaylen Brown fined again by NBA for latest ref complaints from Celtics' Game 7 loss

Brown accused officials of having an "agenda" against him and even declared that referees told him as much.

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May 5 • 8:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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iPhone 18 Pro Rumored to Keep Aluminum Finish Amid Durability Complaints

The iPhone 18 Pro will reportedly carry over the same anodized aluminum finish introduced with the iPhone 17 Pro, despite concerns from some users about its durability.

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May 5 • 12:41 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
ACLU sues Palmetto Bay for ‘retaliating’ against Councilman who mocked Charlie Kirk’s death

The complaint claims the Village’s actions not only harmed Cody’s standing but also interfered with voters’ right to representation.

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May 4 • 6:15 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
After pushback, Amazon rolls out Claude Code, Codex to all employees

Some Amazon staff had complained about a lack of access to top AI coding tools, arguing the company risked falling behind in developer productivity.

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May 4 • 4:59 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
M.I.A. booted from Kid Cudi tour after political rants

Kid Cudi dropped M.I.A. from his Rebel Ragers Tour after fans complained about political remarks she made during recent opening sets, including comments in Dallas that drew boos from the crowd.

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May 4 • 2:29 PM EDT • Politics • sfchronicle.com
The Cost of Gutting Science Is Invisible Yet Enormous

Intelligence agencies often complain that they are judged unfairly because you hear about their failures, not their successes. It’s hard to evaluate anything based on what didn’t happen — even when that’s really the important thing. The problem is just as salient for those trying to create a better future as trying to avert a worse one. When it comes to research, we can see technologies and industries that exist. We can’t see the ones that were never invented because the science that should have

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May 4 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • bloomberg.com
Rising sports streaming and ticket prices impact DePaul students and faculty

The price of watching sports has become an increasingly frequent complaint from fans. Between the rising fees of streaming services and the small fortune that tickets now cost, many fans have had to cut back on watching games, according to a survey of 3,500 by Deloitte, published in March 2026. At DePaul, students and professors...

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Jarrett Allen silences critics with the game of his life

Despite constant calls to trade him and complaints that he's not the man the Cleveland Cavaliers need, Jarrett Allen steps up huge in the game of his life as the Cavs defeat the Toronto Raptors and move on to Round 2.

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May 3 • 10:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Perimenopause Became America's New Health Scare

If you’re a woman who speaks English, it sometimes feels like you can’t spend time on the internet without being bombarded with all the ways in which your body or your mind could be just a little broken. A few years ago, Instagram was full of women talking about attention deficit disorder, and lo and behold: From 2020 to 2022, the percentage of women (between the ages of 23 and 49) newly diagnosed with it nearly doubled. Not long ago, premenstrual syndrome was all the rage, with the algorithm pushing videos that explained why it’s okay to fly off the handle once a month. These days, the word perimenopause is everywhere. Perhaps you’ve seen the headlines. “Perimenopause is having a millennial moment. Here are 7 ways to cope,” says The Washington Post. Or perhaps you’ve seen Apple TV’s glossy drama Your Friends & Neighbors, which is back for its second season; the female protagonist Mel is explicitly perimenopausal, and in the first season, she keyed a car for no apparent reason. She’s played by Amanda Peet, who talks about being perimenopausal in real life (“God knows I’ve wanted to key a lot of cars in the last three years,” she’s said.) In fact, it sometimes feels like every celebrity interview with a forty- or fiftysomething woman requires her to open up about what’s going on with her hormones. Drew Barrymore joked on CBS Mornings that when she found out how long perimenopause can last, she thought she’d “never make it 10 years like this.” Katherine Heigl told Business Insider that “whoever designed it so that women would be going through perimenopause while raising teenagers should be sent a strongly worded letter.” At the same time, influencers who talk about perimenopause seem to have cropped up out of nowhere with something to sell you, causing people online to wonder where this all came from. It’s trickled down from Instagram to tchotchke shops, which sell fridge magnets that say “Perimenopause Is Hot.” You can buy a T-shirt that proclaims “Perimenopause Made Me Do It!” My mom, who is 48, started uncontrollably shaking her leg at night a few years ago. “It’s perimenopause,” she told me when I complained about how annoying it was. But what exactly is perimenopause—and why are we all talking about it all of a sudden?

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May 3 • 7:52 PM EDT • Health • thefp.com
Nintendo explains why The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is so fast-paced

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has shared some insight into why The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is so fast-paced. One of the complaints surrounding the film is that it doesn’t give viewers much of a chance to breathe. There’s a lot that happens in the roughly 90 minutes of screen time that it can be a lot to take in. Having said...

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May 2 • 4:00 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
USPS delays causing problems for small business in Wisconsin

A business owner in Oak Creek says delays at the United States Postal Service (USPS) are creating problems with her customers.

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Apr 30 • 10:41 PM EDT • Business • fox6now.com
Former restaurant worker files complaint, alleges business withheld more than $2,000

A dispute over tip money at a Las Vegas restaurant has led a former employee to accuse the owners of withholding part of a tip pool meant for back-of-house staf

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Apr 30 • 8:24 PM EDT • Business • news3lv.com
Microsoft's Internal Initiative to Fix Windows 11: Don't Rush Features Out the Door

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've seen the numerous issues Windows users have faced, from poor performance to experience-breaking bugs and updates, and AI oversaturation in the OS. While Microsoft has previously announced that it intends to address many of these complaints levelled by W...

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Apr 29 • 9:27 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
Stellantis employees raise health concerns after 5-day office return

Michigan health and safety officials inspected the automaker's Auburn Hills headquarters after getting complaints from employees.

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Apr 27 • 11:00 PM EDT • Health • detroitnews.com
Anthropic acknowledges Claude Code issues, denies 'nerfing'

Anthropic said it found three issues with Claude Code after users complained the AI tool deteriorated.

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Apr 23 • 6:03 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Gamers sue Nintendo over tariff refunds, saying consumers should get the money back

Two gamers have filed a class action lawsuit against Nintendo, alleging that the company will be unjustly enriching itself with any refund it secures from the U.S. government over widespread tariffs last year that, among other things, hiked the prices of Nintendo hardware and accessories. “Unless restrained by this Court, Nintendo stands to recover the same tariff payments twice—once from consumers through higher prices and again from the federal government through tariff refunds, including interest paid by the government on those funds,” the suit states. Nintendo sued the U.S. government to secure a tariff refund in March, after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs a month prior, saying they were illegally implemented by President Donald Trump.. The gamers who have sued, California-based Gregory Hoffert and Washington-based Prashant Sharan, both say they purchased Nintendo goods that had increased in price due to tariffs, according to the complaint. They filed their suit in the Western District court of Nintendo of America’s home state of Washington and are seeking class action status to represent all people in the U.S. who purchased price-hiked Nintendo goods between February 1, 2025 and February 24, 2026. They allege that Nintendo’s recovery of any tariff refunds would constitute unjust enrichment and violate Washington state consumer protection law. Similar class action lawsuits pressing companies to pass on tariff refunds have been previously filed against FedEx, UPS and eyeglass importer EssilorLuxottica. The tariffs were announced in early April, and by mid-month, Nintendo had announced $5 price increases for controllers for the then-forthcoming Switch 2. In August, it raised the price of the original Switch. In their suit, the gamers cite comments from Nintendo executives connecting the tariffs to price increases. In May 2025, a month after the tariffs were imposed, Nintendo CEO Shuntaro Furukawa told investors “Our basic policy is that for any country or region, if tariffs are imposed, we recognize them as a part of the cost and incorporate them into the price.” Nintendo’s March lawsuit, along with tariff-recovery suits from hundreds of other companies was immediately put on hold pending the implementation of a refund system. The U.S. government announced the beginning of the refund process earlier this week. Companies could receive as much as $160 billion, per CNBC. In March 2026, after Nintendo filed its lawsuit to recover the cost of the tariffs, I asked the company if they planned to pass their refund on to customers who’d paid increased prices. The company’s response acknowledged the existence of the lawsuit but avoided answering that question: “We can confirm that we filed a request. We have nothing else to share on this topic.” Even a promise to consumers may not have spared Nintendo this week’s lawsuit. FedEx previously promised to pass its tariff refunds on to consumers. They’ve been sued over them anyway.

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How one disappointing order uncovered a massive ‘ghost cake’ delivery scandal in China

A customer’s complaint about a disappointing cake kicked off a massive investigation that uncovered thousands of “ghost” food vendors in China, resulting in staggering fines for some the country’s largest firms and highlighting the pitfalls of the cutthroat price competition.

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Justice Department files complaint against Washington and its sewage authority for massive spill

The leak, from a deteriorating pipeline, spilled 244 million gallons of raw sewage.

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Curing U.S. Health Care, Part I

In 2008, much to their own surprise, leading Democrats unified around a program of major health care reform. Policy wonks had spent years developing the concepts behind what eventually became Obamacare; big Democratic victories in the 2006 midterms and the prospect of controlling both Congress and the presidency made it possible to imagine turning those ideas into reality. During the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama advocated similar plans, based on those ideas, for expanding insurance coverage. And it happened! The Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010. When it was fully implemented in 2014, millions of Americans got health insurance: Impressive as the raw numbers are, they don’t tell the whole story. Before the ACA, even upper-middle-class Americans often found it impossible to get health insurance if they had pre-existing medical conditions. Many Americans were trapped in jobs they wanted to leave but couldn’t for fear of losing their employment-based coverage. Meanwhile, dire predictions from the usual suspects about runaway costs proved wrong. In fact, overall U.S. medical spending has grown much more slowly since the ACA was enacted than before. But the U.S., alone among advanced nations, still falls far short of providing universal health care. As you can see from the chart above, 8 percent of the population was still uninsured in 2024, a number that is set to rise over the next two years as a result of Republican policies. True, many of the uninsured in 2024 were undocumented immigrants, who we don’t try to cover. But there are still a lot of uninsured. Moreover, a significant number of Americans who have health insurance are in fact underinsured. As a result, they are at risk of incurring devastating healthcare costs and are sometimes forced to forgo needed care. This number is set to rise sharply in the next two years as a result of Republican policies adopted under Donald Trump. And not only is the U.S. unique among advanced countries in its under-provision of health care coverage, it also incurs by far the world’s highest healthcare costs per capita. So now may well be a good time to get behind a new push for major health reform — an effort, if you like, to finish the job begun under Obama. Today’s primer is devoted to the economics of health reform. During his failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump famously complained, “Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.” Actually, we did know — and it’s not that complicated. Health economists understand the principles very well. And because health policy varies greatly among advanced nations, we know a lot about what works and what doesn’t. This will be the first in a series about health reform. Beyond the paywall I’ll address the following: 1. Why markets can’t be trusted to deliver healthcare 2. Routes to universal healthcare 3. What works? In a follow-up post I’ll discuss the pros and cons of different approaches, and possible paths forward for the United States.

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Apr 19 • 6:31 AM EDT • Health • paulkrugman.substack.com
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