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Newsweek
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Plane Passenger on Night Flight Plays Videos Out Loud—Neighbor Handles It
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. When Steven Jones, a Seattle-based comedy and fashion influencer, boarded a flight from LAX to Seattle, he had already had a long and exhausting day. But, as he boarded the flight, a fellow passenger was watching videos on his phone without headphones. Jones shared the moment he confronted the man, saying: "I've been at the airport for seven hours today. I just want to get home and I don't want to be dealing with this." "This is ridiculous," he added, talking to the passenger. "This is a flight." Jones told Newsweek that the conflict began even before boarding. He noticed the man playing YouTube videos out loud in the terminal, ignoring repeated requests from nearby travelers to turn the sound down. "To my surprise, he ended up seated right next to me on the plane. He immediately started playing his YouTube news video," Jones said. The moment the influencer confronted the fellow passenger. The moment the influencer confronted the fellow passenger. @iamkingonlii/TikTok 'We All Just Wanted Him To Be Courteous' Other passengers were quick to show their frustration. The woman sitting on Jones's other side asked the man to put on headphones, only for him to respond: "I don't have any headphones; I've already turned the volume down." Despite being offered headphones multiple times, the man refused. "He wouldn't even touch them. He said that we needed to 'respect him' and that we were 'being sensitive,'" Jones added. The situation didn't stop at loud videos. During the flight, Jones said the same passenger attempted to sit in business class, assuming an empty seat was free. He was escorted back. Later, the man physically leaned against Jones in the middle seat, forcing the influencer to push him back into his own space. "I had no intention of arguing or trying to be rude to the passenger," Jones said. "We all just wanted him to be courteous and use basic flight etiquette. A lot of it is just common sense and decency." Jones's calm handling of the situation struck a chord online, and his TikTok video of the exchange has been viewed more than 5.2 million times, with an additional 1 million views on Instagram. In the comments on TikTok, people praised Jones for confronting the passenger. "Your patience is amazing sir!" said one. Another wrote: "Not wearing headphones is my BIGGEST pet peeve. Like WHO DOESN'T HAVE HEADPHONES?!" "In this situation, I thought it was best to de-escalate," Jones said, adding that his goal was to highlight the importance of simple etiquette while traveling. Newsweek reached out to the airline via email for comment.
Yahoo
08-08-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Amazon (AMZN) AWS Unveils Amazon EVS—A New Way to Run VMware Workloads in the Cloud
Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the Top AI Stocks Taking Wall Street by Storm. On August 5, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon company, announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) to enable customers to run VMware workloads on AWS infrastructure. WIth Amazon EVS, customers will be able to run VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS without the need to re-platform or re-factor their applications. They will also be able to use familiar VMware tools to control and customize their virtualization stack while accessing AWS cloud capabilities. The service supports license portability, enabling customers to run their VMware workloads alongside other applications in AWS. The Amazon EVS can be self-managed or via partners from the AWS Partner Network. 'Since 2016, enterprises have trusted AWS to run their most mission-critical VMware workloads, and today, we're expanding our VMware portfolio by giving customers even more flexibility, control, and choice. Amazon Elastic VMware Service offers customers a straightforward way to bring their VMware workloads to AWS using the tools they know and trust, plus an easy onramp to the breadth of AWS services to help them increase agility, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation.' -Steven Jones, general manager of Commercial Applications at AWS. Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is an American technology company offering e-commerce, cloud computing, and other services, including digital streaming and artificial intelligence solutions. While we acknowledge the potential of AMZN as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: and . Disclosure: None. Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Wire
05-08-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) to enable customers to quickly and easily run and scale their VMware workloads on AWS. Amazon EVS lets customers run VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS without having to re-platform or re-factor their applications. With Amazon EVS, customers can use familiar VMware tools to control and customize their virtualization stack, while realizing the security, reliability, and performance benefits of AWS for their VMware workloads. With Amazon EVS, customers can use their VMware Cloud Foundation license portability to run their VMware workloads alongside other applications in AWS, maximizing their VMware investment without having to change IP addresses, retrain staff, or re-write operational runbooks. Customers have the choice of self-managing Amazon EVS or working with partners from the AWS Partner Network who are experienced in managing and operating VMware Cloud Foundation environments and integrating their VMware workloads with Amazon EVS. Customers and partners including Aeromexico, Alcaldía de Cali, Effectual, Huron Consulting Group, and more are using Amazon EVS to meet their VMware workload migration and modernization needs. 'Since 2016, enterprises have trusted AWS to run their most mission-critical VMware workloads, and today, we're expanding our VMware portfolio by giving customers even more flexibility, control, and choice,' said Steven Jones, general manager of Commercial Applications at AWS. 'Amazon Elastic VMware Service offers customers a straightforward way to bring their VMware workloads to AWS using the tools they know and trust, plus an easy onramp to the breadth of AWS services to help them increase agility, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation.' 'Amazon Elastic VMware Service provides customers with a powerful way to extend modern private clouds to AWS based on unified and consistent VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure,' said Ahmar Mohammad, vice president of Partners, Managed Services, and Solutions GTM, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom. 'With support for VCF license portability, this service helps customers maximize the value of their existing VCF investments while also benefitting from the scale and innovation of running on AWS. Our collaboration with AWS underscores Broadcom's commitment to delivering flexibility, efficiency, and choice for Broadcom customers.' Amazon EVS lets customers run VMware Cloud Foundation directly within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), providing organizations the flexibility to control and configure infrastructure, while seamlessly integrating their VMware environments with AWS's comprehensive services. Customers can automatically deploy a fully functional VMware Cloud Foundation environment using a simple step-by-step workflow in the AWS console and continue to use familiar features—including preferred tools for backup, recovery, and storage, like Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP—that help maintain a consistent backup strategy. With Amazon EVS, customers can also leverage AWS's industry-leading capabilities in analytics, storage, databases, serverless compute, and generative AI such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q for Business, and gain competitive advantage by modernizing their infrastructure and accelerating innovation with AI. Customers and partners are deploying Amazon EVS Alcaldía de Cali is the municipal government of Santiago de Cali, Colombia's third-largest city, providing data-driven services to its residents. 'As part of our cloud-enabled strategy to strengthen public service delivery, Amazon Elastic VMware Service helped us migrate to AWS in just three weeks, while keeping 75% of our workloads on VMware technology,' said Alexander Mondragon, director of the Municipal Administrative Department of Information and Communication Technologies. 'Working with AWS Partner Blend helped us to successfully execute this migration. The ability to be agile and deploy in less than 24 hours was critical to maintaining uninterrupted public services and improving delivery across healthcare, education, property management, and payments, which ultimately helps us better serve the 2.2 million residents of Santiago de Cali.' Aeromexico is Mexico's global airline and a leader in Latin American aviation. 'Amazon Elastic VMware Service is a crucial addition to our efforts in modernizing applications and adopting the cloud at Aeromexico,' said Fernando Rocha, senior vice president of IT and CIO at Aeromexico. 'We have been collaborating extensively with AWS to harness the benefits of the cloud, and any advancement that speeds up this process is highly appreciated. With Amazon Elastic VMware Service, we can transition our applications to the cloud without the need to invest in on-premises infrastructure. This service is pivotal in accelerating our cloud journey while maintaining the resilience and security required for our operations.' Effectual is an IT service management company specializing in enterprise digital transformation, from migrations to modernization in the cloud. 'Amazon Elastic VMware Service enables customers to achieve accelerated timelines and unlock business agility by quickly migrating their VMware-based workloads to the cloud,' said Matt Crognale, senior manager, Migrations and Modernization at Effectual. 'With Amazon Elastic VMware Service, we are able to help customers migrate to the cloud without re-factoring applications, enabling them to maintain existing operational processes so they can focus on delivering value instead of managing infrastructure.' Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm that specializes in providing strategic consulting, technology, and analytics solutions, primarily for clients in healthcare, education, and commercial industries. 'Amazon Elastic VMware Service gives us the control and customization to configure our virtualization stack exactly how we need it,' said Frank Fioretti, principal infrastructure architect at Huron. 'Running our VCF environment on the same infrastructure as the rest of our cloud workloads allows our team to leverage their VMware expertise while benefitting from the same cloud scale, security, performance, and innovation as our next-generation workloads.' Amazon Elastic VMware Service is generally available today in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Dublin), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), with availability in additional Regions coming soon. To learn more, visit: The Amazon EVS announcement blog and AWS News for details on today's announcement. The Amazon EVS page to learn more about the service. About Amazon Web Services Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 117 Availability Zones within 37 geographic regions, with announced plans for 13 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Chile, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit and follow @AmazonNews.
Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Yahoo
St. Johns County drug bust leads to two arrests, rattles community
A major drug bust in St. Johns County leaves two people arrested and a neighborhood rattled. >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<< The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, SWAT, and other specialized units raided a West Augustine home for drugs on June 5th. Investigators told Action News Jax that the amount of drugs they found has the potential to kill thousands of people. The Sheriff's Office says they seized: 4 ounces of Methamphetamine 17.5 grams Fentanyl 2.2 grams of suspected Ketamine 7 Firearms Ammunition Drug paraphernalia [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] Baron Long (left) and Steven Jones (right) were arrested and are both facing several charges. 'I've seen frequent people coming in and out, but not knowing the nature of what was on,' said West Augustine community mentor Mark James. [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] James has been living in West Augustine his entire life. He says he's not surprised by the scale of the raid. 'I am happy that the SWAT team came in and is trying to help clean it up through the sheriff's office,' said James. 'I think those efforts are needed in our community.' You can watch the full raid by clicking here. Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
South China Morning Post
11-07-2025
- South China Morning Post
US man who decapitated father and posted video of his head gets life sentence
A Pennsylvania man who posted a video of his father's severed head online was convicted of murder on Friday and sentenced to life without parole. Bucks County Judge Stephen A. Corr found Justin D. Mohn, 33, guilty in the January 2024 shooting death of his father at their home in the Philadelphia suburb of Levittown. After the sentencing, Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn told reporters Mohn had exhibited a 'complete and utter lack of remorse', calling it an 'unimaginable, unfathomable crime'. 'We are satisfied that this was the right outcome to guarantee that the community at large is safe from Justin Mohn,' Schorn said. His defence lawyer called it an 'undoubtedly difficult case to preside over.' 'Cases involving the loss of life are always the most difficult, and that difficulty is compounded when the prosecution seeks the death penalty. The commonwealth originally sought the death penalty in this case, and based on the defence that was presented on behalf of Mr Mohn, my client will not face that penalty,' said Mohn's lawyer, Steven M. Jones, in an email.
