Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted in Brooklyn on charges that they conspired to illegally rig bets on pitches thrown during games. The two were charged with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery, and money laundering conspiracy, among other things. According to the indictment:The defendants agreed in advance with their co-conspirators to throw specific types and speeds of pitches, and their co-conspirators used that inside information to place wagers on those pitches. In some instances, the defendants received bribes and kickback payments-funneled through third parties-in exchange for rigging pitches.The scheme involved unnamed third-party bettors who allegedly earned over $400,000 on bets involving Clase and Ortiz. The pitchers, for their part, received kickbacks according to the indictment. In some instances, Clase and Ortiz even provided their coconspirators with money to fund the bets. To organize the scheme, the two used their cellphones during games, which is prohibited by the MLB except under extenuating circumstances. The two are also facing a potential lifetime ban from the sport for violating the league’s rules against betting on their own games. However, if convicted, it’s unlikely they’d be released from prison while still young enough to compete anyway. Clase and Ortiz are facing a possible sentence of up to 65 years.

Like most tech users, when I needed to compress or extract a file, I just hit the 7-Zip context menu and got it done. It was reliable, it was free, and honestly, I didn't think twice about it. But the more I handled large and sensitive client data, the more the clunky interface started to annoy me. I realized I needed more: a productivity tool that offered modern features without costing a fortune.

In a world where pretty much every app and service has massively changed over the years, browsers are something that have sort of stayed stagnant. You open them, type in a URL, and you get a search result. That’s it. There’s not much excitement or innovation left there. Or at least, that’s what I thought for the longest time, until AI browsers started popping up.

If there's one thing that everyone in the games industry knows very well, it's how serious Nintendo is about protecting their intellectual properties. The Japanese game company is notorious for being very willing to get into a legal battle with any entity that steps into the realm of piracy and emulation. Most recently, Nintendo sued a YouTuber named Jesse Keighin for streaming Nintendo games on the platform before their official release, which led to a judge ruling that Jesse had to pay Nintendo $17,500. And it's not the only time the world has seen Nintendo aggressively go after people for daring to mess around with their franchises.

Much of La Ola Interior (Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990) sounds shockingly contemporary for a collection of tracks recorded in the mid to late '80s. Ambient as a genre was already relatively well established by the time many of the artists on this compilation recorded their songs. But as we neared the end of the century, much of the scene in the US and Japan was beginning to push into New Age territory. These artists from the Spanish peninsula were trafficking in something much more experimental.La Ola Interior covers a lot of stylistic ground. There's despondent drones, classic analog synths excursions, detached chants, field …Read the full story at The Verge.

The train station display is the unsung hero of the rail network. It's always giving us up-to-date information on when we can expect our trains, but we rarely give it the props that it truly deserves. Without them, we don't know if our next train is in one minute or in one hour.

When Microsoft first announced the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU), it felt like a great lifeline for people who didn't want to upgrade to Windows 11 just yet. The idea is that people can either make a Windows 10 backup using OneDrive, spend 1,000 Microsoft Points, or pay $30 to get another full year of security updates, allowing them to continue connecting their PC to the internet without fear of day-zero attacks affecting their device.

Conducting thorough research on both the hardware and OS aspects is quite essential when building anything related to computing, be it a PC, home server, or even a seemingly simple Network-Attached Storage system. When I built my first storage server using TrueNAS ages ago, I put in some effort to familiarize myself with the intricacies of NAS devices. And I learned quite a lot from several hours of research and a few minutes of the setup process.

Smart homes are supposed to simplify life, but most off-the-shelf hubs and devices offer limited customization and rely on the cloud. That’s where the Raspberry Pi shines. It gives you the freedom to create exactly the kind of smart home you want, without paying subscription fees or sacrificing privacy. Here are a few Raspberry Pi projects that made my smart home noticeably more capable, efficient, and personal.

Like many users, when I first started using Obsidian, I didn't have a solid organizational structure in mind. I threw together some folders and only haphazardly tagged notes. After all, I was learning the ins and outs of the program; I didn't realize how crucial tagging was to keeping track of things.

If I had to point to a specific part of Linux that convinced me to use it over Windows after so many years, it'd be a toss-up between the Fedora distro and KDE Plasma. The former is nice and stable, while the latter offers an enjoyable, customizable Linux experience, so the fact that you can just download a Fedora KDE Plasma spin was a perfect match for me.

With every big hardware release, the community of hardware enthusiasts jumps to their benchmarking tools to see how their hardware fares against the shiny new components about to hit the market.