Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. (www.brookings.edu)
US has seen no evidence that Israel has committed genocide, Defense Secretary says (www.politico.com)
Biden warns Iran: our commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad (m.jpost.com)
Saying What Can't Be Said: Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat (www.haaretz.com)
Right-wingers claim trans women have unfair advantage in hot dog-eating contests (www.lgbtqnation.com)
"The remake has been...remade from scratch" (cafe.everythingbagel.me)
Such funny, who remembers 2020 reveal? Such backlash causes Ubisoft to restart development for Sands of Time just like Nintendo did for Metroid 4....
Argentine Unions Call Another General Strike for May 9th (peoplesdispatch.org)
Bluesky federation goes live (bsky.social)
Apple Announces 'Groundbreaking' New Security Protocol for iMessage (www.macrumors.com)
Apple Announces ‘Groundbreaking’ New Security Protocol for iMessage::Apple today announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage called PQ3. Apple says this “groundbreaking” and…
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.
China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah (thecradle.co)
How IT People See Each Other (tesseract.dubvee.org)
Not OC: Just found this on my old hard drive while grabbing some other stuff.
Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024) (wedistribute.org)
Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.
An engine cover rips off a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, forcing an emergency landing (www.businessinsider.com)
Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14235015...
This Doug Dimmadome-like samurai helmet I stumbled upon in a Japanese train station (feddit.it)
まさか…！「ダグ・ディマドーム」！
Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO (www.phoronix.com)
Rich Americans are getting second passports, citing risk of instability (www.cnbc.com)
Jeff Strain shuts down Possibility Space studio via email, blaming internal leaks to the press (massivelyop.com)
A crumbling rail system in Ethiopia reveals failed promise of China’s Billions in African infrastructure (martinplaut.com)
Today it sits as a daily reminder of the broken promises of China-funded infrastructure investments that swept Africa in recent years. Frequent breakdowns, inadequate maintenance funding and operational constraints mean barely one-third of its 41 trains are operational, ferrying 55,000 passengers a day, a fraction of initial...
New ERA Dropped! (lemm.ee)
Google Messages preps single-line text field redesign after all your complaints [Gallery] (9to5google.com)
class war (beehaw.org)
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)
Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....
Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online (www.ign.com)
Well today has been rich in boring dystopic news…
