https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48707727/fifa-triples-best-available-world-cup-final-ticket-33k

FIFA tripled the price of its best available tickets to the FIFA World Cup final, making $32,970 seats available Thursday for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Soccer’s governing body listed those seats as front category 1 on its sales site on a day that saw members of Congress question the pricing structure for World Cup tickets and ask FIFA for more transparency on asking prices.

FIFA previously had a high price of $10,990 for category 1 at the final. However, that ticket was now available Thursday night only as wheelchair and easy access amenity category 1.

Tickets for the July 14 semifinal at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, were listed at $11,130, $4,330, $3,710 and $2,705. Seats for the following day’s semifinal at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium were at $10,635, $3,545 and $2,725.

More expensive than for NFL tickets!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/super-bowl/2026/01/21/super-bowl-60-ticket-prices-purchase-cheapest/88274794007/

Face value for tickets to Super Bowl 60 range from $950 to $8,500, according to Friedman, who provided USA TODAY Sports a screenshot of a seating chart with ticket prices.

“They really know what they need,” and are putting “serious effort” into acquiring advanced machine tools, factory equipment, research and dual-use technology, said Christoffer Wedelin, deputy head of operations at the Swedish Security Service.

Russia also needs sanctioned computer technology and software updates for machine tools, Martelius said.

Even more important to the KGB was obtaining research data about Western technology, including integrated circuit design, computer-aided manufacturing, and, especially, operating system software that was under U.S. export control. They offered 250,000 Deutschmarks for copies of Digital Equipment’s VMS operating system.

Peter Carl and Dirk Brezinski apparently met with the KGB a dozen times, filling many of their requests: source code to the Unix operating system, designs for high-speed gallium-arsenide integrated circuits, and computer programs used to engineer computer memory chips.

Alone, the source code to Unix isn’t worth $130,000. Chip designs? Perhaps. But a sophisticated computer design program . . . well, maybe the KGB did get its money’s worth.

— The Cuckoo’s Egg, discussing the situation in 1986

That was 40 years back and when the Soviet Union was still around. Some things haven’t changed all that much.

Yeah, they mention it in the article, but I figure that whatever this guy wants, it’s more than whatever they’re generating.

For passionate enthusiasts, Ferraris are not merely cars but works of art…the sound of the engine revving evokes a sensation comparable to listening to the music of Giuseppe Verdi or Giacomo Puccini.

“I agree with him – the horse needs to be removed,” said Barone, adding that his main gripe was its lack of sound. “How can you have a Ferrari without any vroom?”

I suppose that someone could make a device that polls OBD-II for the current RPM and feeds more synthetic ICE engine sound into the sound system.

EDIT: Hell, if you’re freed from the constraints of an actual ICE engine, there’s probably some sort of sound that’s more psychologically-optimized to make the guy happy than whatever an actual engine puts out.

Since then, World Cup host countries have invested heavily in getting fans to and from matches, especially in Russia in 2018, where even long-distance trains between host cities were free, and Qatar in 2022, where free metro access helped turn stadium-hopping into part of the tournament experience.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clementelisi/2026/05/04/the-world-cups-hidden-cost-why-host-cities-pay-more-than-they-gain/

The World Cup Is Great For FIFA—And A Bad Bet For Cities

The best available estimate suggested a $14 million shortfall on a $22 million public investment. That’s not a rounding error, but a warning for all cities looking to host a large-scale sporting event.

People who want to prevent their devices from being swept into botnets should install security updates in a timely manner and resist the urge to continue using software or devices that no longer receive them.

That doesn’t really seem likely to happen on its own. I’m pretty sure that most IoT devices phone home and upgrade themselves (which, frankly, I’d be maybe more-concerned about as a vector than a lack of updates, since anyone can buy a defunct IoT maker and thus get control of all those devices, or penetrate the IoT maker’s network) and I imagine that most people have no idea when a device has last been updated.

You can maybe have some sort of network protocol where devices can report their last update. That’d maybe permit for auditing that, if you had a device that would tell a user about an outdated device, which isn’t really the case today. Also kind of hard to tell an end user what a device at IP address X is. If they’re on the same Ethernet segment, maybe could try to identify it by OUI on the Ethernet MAC address, I guess, but that’s not going to give you a convenient helpful-to-most-end-users product ID for a lot of devices. So if your audit program sees a device on the network that doesn’t implement the “last updated” protocol, it may have a hard time identifying it to you in human terms.

At a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.”

If they want to enter the US and if they hold citizenship, I think that that may violate case law that a US citizen may not be denied entry to the US.

searches

Some random law firm, but:

https://www.rnlawgroup.com/the-rights-of-a-u-s-citizen-upon-reentry-into-the-country/

Central to these protections is the absolute right of a U.S. citizen to return to their country. This right is unequivocal. No matter where an individual has traveled, the duration of their absence, or their personal or legal background, a U.S. citizen cannot be denied entry into the United States. This principle is supported by both statutory and constitutional law. A landmark Supreme Court case, United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), established that citizenship includes the right to reenter the nation. Unlike lawful permanent residents or visa holders, U.S. citizens are exempt from admissibility criteria. Consequently, even if a U.S. citizen lacks proper documentation or is subject to further questioning, the government is obligated to permit their entry once their citizenship is verified.

The federal government can hold US citizens in quarantine upon reentry, in the US. There’s certainly precedent there. But I don’t think that it can constitutionally say “you may not enter the US” to a citizen.

So, I don’t use iOS devices, and I’m not in Europe, so I can’t provide a lot of first-hand data on your particular widget. I’m just saying that that’s how the weather software I’ve used in the past across a number of platforms works.

Regarding your change as you traveled towards the coast, if they’re choosing the closest weather station to your location, though, you’d expect the weather station in question to shift as you travel.

If they are reporting temperature at a weather station and if this database here represents the weather station set that is used (again, I don’t know, not familiar with weather reporting in Europe):

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/maps-and-charts/locations-of-stations-with-temperature/locations-of-stations-with-temperature

Then it looks like France is operating far fewer weather stations than some other countries in Europe, which might tend to cause more average deviation between conditions at a location of someone checking the weather and the conditions at the local weather station being used.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b8466cdd-29e0-4be8-b438-0c546dd3e128.png

So, I don’t know how European weather reporting works, but if it’s like the US, the temperature that they’re reporting for your area may be for wherever your local weather station is (probably your local airport?), which may well differ from that at your house or wherever you’re taking the picture.

I doubt that Apple themselves tries to model weather; they’ll be reporting weather data from some other service.

Are you familiar with Kodi?

I don’t have a dog in this race, but I would point out that styles do change.

A Ferrari from 1947:

1960:

1980:

IIRC from past reading, the driving factor behind the California bill was that some places were passing laws that would have placed responsibility for age verification on websites. Meta — probably correctly assessing that anything they did was going to be defeatable and not wanting to engage in a big fight with regulators over that — drove the California effort to create an OS-level responsibility. It’s not that this especially solves anything from the standpoint of people who want age restrictions, but that it dumps the legal problems on the OS vendors, like Apple and Microsoft, instead of on Meta.

Another mother, Jenny Sullivan, said she has noticed her fourth grade son capitalizing random letters and not getting corrected

If it’s good enough for the President…

Carmakers including Ford and Volkswagen have doubled down on petrol cars, especially in the US, due to…regulatory changes under President Donald Trump, who has cut incentives for EV buyers.

I’m pretty confident that if you’re buying a $640,000 car, you place little relative value on a $7,500 tax credit. It being present or not is under a 1.2% price difference. That particular factor probably isn’t very relevant as regards cars like these.

That compressed database would have to be updated frequently

They are.

One account on X said: “Ferrari just killed their brand just like Jaguar did. This is straight to the junkyard trash.”

“What is going on with European Luxury car manufacturers? First Jaguar and now Ferrari”, another account posted.

But not all commentators were felt negatively about the new car, with one post saying: “Absolute masterclass in design. Ferrari just unveiled the breathtaking LUCE concept, and it is a total game changer.”

Honestly, BBC, if you’re going to aggregate statistics about tweets on Twitter, use it as some kind of crude poll, maybe you could get something useful that way.

But reporting on anecdotes about anonymous tweets for opinion seems of almost zero value from a news standpoint. If a tweet mentioned a fact that you could validate, say, that might have some value.

But what you’re doing here is on-par with saying “someone on Twitter said that they liked chocolate ice cream, and someone else said that they didn’t like chocolate ice cream”. That just doesn’t really seem newsworthy. I would say that it’d be surprising if you couldn’t find posts of both sorts for virtually any topic.

No, but it says that he’s the founder of “7-Eleven Japan”, not “7-Eleven”.

Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands

Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government.

The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States…

I’d also guess that the Russian and Canadian governments are up there.

I mean, it’s not going to work, because your kids are gonna have a smartphone, and they can go to their friend’s house or wherever and they aren’t gonna have content filters. And then you think “okay, I’ll install software on my kid’s viewing device to censor stuff”, but these days, it’s probably not terribly difficult to get ahold of an old phone/tablet/computer, if all you want to do with it is view pornography. Everything’s got a web browser in it, and that’s been the case for long enough that there’s lots of disused hardware just sitting around that can browse the Web. I’ve thrown out a PSP, phones, tablets, countless computers…I suspect that someone’s parents are probably willing to hand their old gear to their kid, and they float around. If you live in an isolated cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, maybe access to Web-capable devices is a barrier, but if your kid has friends, I suspect that it’s not all that hard to get ahold of one device that they have that can browse the Web.

I mean, the realistic answer here is “you’re not going to stop kids from viewing pornography if they sufficiently want to view it”. One kid figures out how to do X, and it doesn’t take long for word to get around.

EDIT: I just hit Amazon looking for an example.

https://www.amazon.com/HOTTABLET-Tablet-Android-Protective-Bluetooth/dp/B0F3XD9M6C

That’s a $39 Android tablet that can browse the Web, has 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of flash (plus an SD card slot). That’s gonna be fine for browsing all the porn you want out there.

Like, it’s pretty hard to keep someone from getting access to something like that. If there weren’t a supply of old hardware floating around and new hardware wasn’t this cheap, okay, but devices capable of browsing the Web are everywhere.

I wish I still knew where this comic was.

You’re probably thinking of an xkcd comic:

https://xkcd.com/2501/