Time has revealed that Google supplies the Israeli Ministry of Defense with cloud computing services via a US$1.2b contract with the entire Israeli government via something they internally called Project Nimbus. This was done prior to the war in Gaza, but since then, the Israeli military has spent over a US$1m on Google's consulting services to expand their use of Google's cloud services. A group of Google employees are understandably upset about this and staged a protest at their offices in New York and California resulting in 9 of them being arrested. Now Google has fired 28 employees that participated in the protest, saying "behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it". Normally I'd throw in my 2c at the end of the paragraph, but that quote speaks for itself, doesn't it?
Anna's Archive is one of my favourite things on the internet right now. It's an attempt to collect "all knowledge and culture of humanity" and keep it backed up. Part of that included spending a year to scrape OCLC's proprietary WorldCat database - basically a list of every book known to humanity - so they can keep track of which books are in the archive and which ones they still need to find. This pissed off OCLC who have tried to sue Anna's Archive, but nobody knows who "Anna" is, so OCLC sued Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo, seemingly because she simply has the social media username "anarchivist" and that she used to be a librarian. That's all they evidence they have! Hopefully the case is dismissed ASAP.
Nintendo console emulator Delta is now on the Apple App Store for everyone to download. It supports Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Nintendo 64, and Nintendo DS. You'll have to find your own ROMS, but I'm sure someone on the Sizzle forums will drop hints on where you can find a safe place to download them (wink). Once you've got the ROMs, all you do is chuck em on iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive and point Delta at your ROMs directory. Going by this review on MacRumours, Delta is excellent.
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