Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell fires back after Dave Navarro sued him over violent onstage attack

Jane’s Addiction is taking their feud to court. On Wednesday, guitarist Dave Navarro, along with bandmates Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins, filed a $10 million lawsuit against frontman Perry Farrell, accusing him of assault and battery after an onstage altercation in September 2024. The same day, Farrell filed a countersuit, alleging a “yearslong bullying campaign”…

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News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline

The News/Media Alliance, a trade association behind major news publishers, announced that it has “successfully secured” the removal of 12ft.io, a website that helped users bypass paywalls online. The trade association says 12ft.io’s webhost took down the site on July 14th “following the News/Media Alliance’s efforts.” 12ft.io — or 12 Foot Ladder — also allowed…

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What Big Tech got out of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

The massive budget bill signed into law by President Donald Trump on Independence Day didn’t include everything on Big Tech’s wishlist, but the industry’s largest players stand to gain significantly from several provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Republican-backed legislation is best known for its tax cuts on tips, deduction caps that…

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Could underwater living be the next frontier for human habitats

As the world faces environmental challenges and seeks new opportunities, the idea of underwater living is gaining serious momentum.  While lunar and Martian colonies make headlines, scientists and engineers are turning their attention to the ocean floor, a mysterious and untapped frontier much closer to home. NAVY’S NEXT-GENERATION SUBMARINE PROGRAM FACES ALARMING DELAY TO 2040…

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The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

Today is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising batch, especially the Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.” The list includes these emoji, according to…

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Trump’s Treasury Department targets dangerous Venezuelan prison gang with sanctions on 6 top leaders

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday sanctioned Tren de Aragua head Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as “Niño Guerrero”, and five other top Tren de Aragua leaders and affiliates.  Tren de Aragua, designated by the State Department on Feb. 20 as a foreign terrorist organization, originated in…

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