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THE GUY WHO SAID HE KILLED TUPAC GETS CONVICTED OF KILLING TUPAC
A Las Vegas jury needed less than three hours on Monday to convict Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon in the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur. The trial ran nearly two weeks. Two dozen prosecution witnesses, three for the defense, Davis did not take the stand. Prosecutors never claimed he fired the gun. Under Nevada law, helping someone commit a murder gets you convicted of the murder, and Chief Deputy DA Binu Palal told jurors Davis and his crew "went hunting" for Shakur and Suge Knight. The star witness was basically Davis's own mouth. Police interviews, media appearances, and a 2019 memoir called Compton Street Legend that walked through the shooting in detail and helped revive a case nobody had charged anyone in for over two decades. His attorney's defense was that all of it was fiction and his client is "full of crap" which is a hell of a thing to argue about the man paying you millions to keep him out of jail. Judge Carli Kierny ordered Davis held without bond until his October 13 sentencing, where he faces life without parole. Davis told the court he plans to appeal, and that he wants his stuff back.
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SEC MULLS KICKING LSU OUT OF THE SEC OVER GUYS THE NFL CUT
LSU hosts Clemson on Saturday in Lane Kiffin's debut, and its own conference is currently discussing whether LSU should still be in the conference. Yahoo's Ross Dellenger reports high-ranking SEC school executives are exploring boycotting competition against LSU, putting the school on probation, expelling it outright, and filing a federal legal challenge. The talks are early and mostly between school presidents and their lawyers. One league stakeholder summed up the mood with "Enough is enough. This is ridiculous." The men worth blowing up a 16-school conference over: Dae'Quan Wright, a tight end the Browns waived, and Zxavian Harris, the 6-foot-8 defensive tackle who signed with the Saints, plus former Notre Dame pass rusher Junior Tuihalamaka, who never signed a pro contract at all. Baton Rouge judge William Jorden blocked the SEC from punishing schools that take them, and the league says it will comply for now and figure out next steps after the hearing. The SEC already had teeth here. Coaches face a half-season suspension and schools face a fine equal to 50% of that sport's annual operating budget plus revoked voting rights. All 16 athletic directors passed it, including LSU's, before LSU abstained from the presidents' vote. Expulsion appears nowhere in the SEC's 48-page bylaws, though a catch-all clause lets the CEOs impose any penalty they consider appropriate. Some outlets however are reading this a bit more straightforward, it's a bluff to make LSU fold, while the noise keeps Congress interested in handing college sports an antitrust exemption.
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JOHN DEERE BUILT AN AI FOR FARMERS AND NAMED IT JD, WHICH TOOK SOME DOING
John Deere rolled into the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa this week with its big generative AI announcement: an assistant built into Operations Center called JD. The company is named John Deere. The chatbot is named JD. Somewhere a branding team got paid for that. The product is real, though. JD reads a farmer's own field, machine and operational data and answers questions in plain language, so you can ask how fuel use during tillage compared with the last three years, which sprayer operator covered the most acres per hour, or when the historical trends say to start harvest. Deere's chief technology officer, Jahmy Hindman, says it turns navigating a sea of data into just asking a question. A product marketing manager said farmers want a trusted data scientist dedicated to their operation, which is a polite way of saying nobody has time to open forty dashboards in the middle of harvest. It's free, it works only on your own farm's history, and Deere paired the launch with a Farmer Data Commitment: ten principles, including that it does not sell your farm data. Comforting, from the company that spent years telling farmers their tractor was too sophisticated to fix in their own shed. Early access is limited to select U.S. customers, with wider rollout later this year, in-cab displays after that, then turf, construction, roadbuilding and forestry.
$70,000 WORTH OF BEER STOLEN IN WHAT EXPERTS CALL, AN ELITE USE OF FREE WILL
On Aug. 17, someone rolled up to the Anheuser-Busch distribution center on Brooks Street in Montclair, California, handed over subcontractor paperwork that police say was fraudulent, and drove off with about $25,000 in Anheuser-Busch and Pabst product. An hour earlier, a $45,000 shipment left the same building bound for Tucson and never arrived. Investigators think the two jobs are connected. Roughly $70,000 gone before lunch. The Pabst side of the haul came to about 40,000 pounds, which the brand itemized as 1,602 cases and just under 34,000 cans. That also includes 196 cases of nonalcoholic Old Milwaukee, so somewhere out there is a criminal cracking a cold one and getting absolutely nothing out of it. Pabst went to Instagram with "STOLEN - 40,000 lbs of beer," said it understood the urge to brag about that much PBR but wished the guy had gotten it "the honorable way," and started a clock: 18 days and 44 minutes to bring everything back, no questions asked. Fortune points out that Pabst was founded in 1844, and the company won't confirm the wink. One wrinkle. Montclair PD had to publicly correct the victim, saying "We are working this case, but no trucks were stolen." Just the cargo. Pabst kept posting MISSING TRUCK graphics anyway, and so many people assumed the heist was a marketing stunt that the brand had to insist it actually happened.
FIRST EVER EVIDENCE OF DARK MATTER POTENTIALLY FOUND IN.... SOUTH DAKOTA?
Nearly a mile under South Dakota, in a retired gold mine, sits about 10 tonnes of ultrapure liquid xenon watched around the clock by 250 scientists from 39 institutions. On September 1 at a conference in Japan, the LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration announced what all of that produced: one flash. One particle interaction, out of 220 live days of data taken between March 2023 and April 2024, that nobody can pin on a known background. Science News pins the moment to a day in June 2023. They did try to kill it. Lead author Sam Eriksen said the team spent months hunting every possible cause, and neutrons, neutrinos and radioactive gunk in the hardware all came up empty. Sydney physicist Theresa Fruth said the event "just won't go away even after many, many checks." The number is 2.6 sigma, meaning roughly a 0.5 percent chance a known background did it. That sounds airtight right up until you learn particle physics wants 5 sigma before anyone is allowed to say discovery. LZ spokesperson Rick Gaitskell is on record as intrigued and not one inch further, noting the blip landed where dark matter should show up and competing backgrounds are very low. It also arrived at higher energy than the simplest models predicted, which would mean a heavier WIMP than expected. The paper is on arXiv, not peer reviewed yet, submitted to Physical Review Letters, and now dumped on XENON in Italy and PandaX in China to confirm or wreck. LZ keeps collecting data until at least 2028.
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