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Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more (techcrunch.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/18019157...

Ultra-Orthodox protest against order to enlist in Israeli military turns violent in Jerusalem (apnews.com)

Short fuses in Egypt as blackouts stretch into sweltering summer (www.rawstory.com)

Far-right wins first round in France election, run-off horsetrading begins (www.channelnewsasia.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17490349

ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later (arstechnica.com)

Researchers create 30 fake student accounts to submit model-generated responses to real exams. Professors grade the 200 or 1500 word responses from the AI undergrads and gave them better grades than real students 84% of the time. 6% of the bot respondents did get caught, though… for being too good. Meanwhile, AI detection...

Qualcomm wants to make it easier for phone makers to issue Android updates (www.gsmarena.com)

Ranked Choice Voting - A Community for Discussion and Organizing to Implement Ranked Choice Voting (ponder.cat)

Ranked Choice Voting...

Small Alabama Town Wins Lawsuit Allowing Residents To Vote For First Time In Decades (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)

For decades, white officials appointed Newbern’s mayor and council members in lieu of holding elections. Most residents weren’t even aware that there were supposed to be elections for these positions....

Split-/usr on Linux became so broken, that even Gentoo maintainers decided they can't fix it (gitweb.gentoo.org)

…gentoo.org/…/2013-09-27-initramfs-required.en.tx…

North Korea launches a ballistic missile off its east coast, South Korea says (www.independent.co.uk)

RISC-V NAS: BPI-F3 & OpenMediaVault (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17489101

Israel destroys 11 homes in West Bank village amid spiralling violence (www.theguardian.com)

Israeli soldiers have destroyed 11 homes and other structures in an isolated community in the occupied West Bank, leaving 50 people homeless, amid a reported uptick in house demolitions and spiralling violence in the Palestinian territory....

This Sudanese refugee asks: Why is the world ignoring her country's crisis? (www.npr.org)

'SuperSega' FPGA Console Will Play Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, Saturn And Dreamcast Games | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)

‘SuperSega’ FPGA Console: A Comprehensive Sega Experience...

Negotiations Are Underway for Guantánamo’s “Forever Prisoner” From Gaza to Be Released (theintercept.com)

DURING AN APPEARANCE before a military review board, an attorney for Guantánamo Bay’s “forever prisoner” revealed that negotiations are underway for his possible release after being tortured and detained without charges for 22 years....

Outrage as China hospital charges patient fee for sitting down on a chair while receiving an intravenous infusion as health authority says fee is in line with regulations (www.scmp.com)

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Inflation vs. wages: How rising prices stack up against growing pay (www.nbcnews.com)

At least 18 people killed in series of suicide attacks in Nigeria (www.theguardian.com)

My god they are evolving fast. (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. (act.represent.us)

Some Surprises in the No Surprises Act (www.propublica.org)

TeamViewer links corporate cyberattack to Russian state hackers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers (arstechnica.com)

In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt “a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others,” who may not have...