A Malaysian court remanded popular rapper Namewee in custody on Monday, his lawyer said, part of a murder investigation looking into the death of a Tawainese influencer in a Kuala Lumpur hotel room. Namewee, whose real name is Wee Meng Chee, handed himself over to police on Wednesday after he was named a “person of interest” in the probe into …
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Taiwanese influencer Iris Hsieh, known for her provocative stunts online, was found lifeless in a hotel room in Malaysia. Rapper Namewee claimed he found the body in a bathtub in a Kuala Lumpur hotel and called 911. “I will not run,” the rapper said after he was placed in custody this week as part of the investigation. Taiwanese influencer Iris …
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Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that’s netted the firm a lot of data. And that data has led the company to conclude that HDDs “are lasting longer” and showing fewer errors. That conclusion came from …
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Spoiler Alert !!! This article has spoilers for The Summer I Turned Pretty, Season 3, Episode 6. In The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Episode 6, the bathtub moment between Belly and Conrad completely flips the script on their history. After her bridal shower, we see Belly back in Cousins writing a handwritten note for Lucinda. Then Conrad enters …
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The observed and forecasted growth rate of paper mill papers outpaces corrective measures, a new study finds. R. Richardson et al./PNAS 2025 Systematic research fraud has outpaced corrective measures and will only keep accelerating, according to a study of problematic publishing practices and the networks that fuel them. The study, published August 4 in Proceedings of the National Academy of …
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