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'Largest IT Outage in History' Sparks Global Chaos. (www.commondreams.org)

J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows (www.wired.com)

Happy BSOD Day! (beehaw.org)

Happy BSOD Day!

Israel using water as weapon of war as Gaza supply plummets by 94%, creating deadly health catastrophe: Oxfam (www.oxfam.ca)

Russia convicts US reporter of espionage after a trial widely seen as politically motivated (apnews.com)

Drug Traffickers Said They Backed an Early Campaign of Mexico’s President. But U.S. Agents Were Done Investigating. (www.propublica.org)

Sheila Jackson Lee, strong Democratic voice in US Congress, dies. (www.voanews.com)

China escapes Microsoft outage, thanks to Beijing’s tech self-sufficiency drive (www.scmp.com)

'G Warrior', A New Super Contra-Style Run ‘N’ Gunner For PC | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)

‘G Warrior’, a new indie action game from Liao Kai, the developer of 2023’s hit GanaBlade. G Warrior is described as a retro, hardcore shooting game, taking players on an epic mission to defeat an army of robots and aliens in a colorful pixelated world reminiscent of classic NES games....

Airlines resume services after global IT crash wreaks havoc. (www.voanews.com)

Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries (www.tomshardware.com)

In 2023, Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh of electricity, surpassing the consumption of over 100 nations, including places like Iceland, Ghana, and Tunisia, according to an analysis by Michael Thomas. While massive energy usage means a substantial environmental impact for these tech giants, it should be noted that...

"We're not blessed with big marketing budgets," Xbox's EMEA marketing lead laments Microsoft's lack of investment (www.windowscentral.com)

The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (as well as training any kind of AI on copyrighted content) (www.theverge.com)

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new bill to make it easier to authenticate and detect artificial intelligence-generated content and protect journalists and artists from having their work gobbled up by AI models without their permission....

Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)

Montana’s Plan To Curb Opioid Overdoses Includes Vending Machines (kffhealthnews.org)

Zelenskiy accuses Viktor Orbán of betraying Europe at leaders’ meeting in UK (www.theguardian.com)

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has taken aim at the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, accusing him of betraying fellow European leaders after Orbán’s recent “peace mission” to Moscow....

My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024... (mastodon.social)

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You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend: “The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too (www.niemanlab.org)

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