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That's LTT in the bottom (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF (littlegreenfootballs.com)

Anon gets pranked (sh.itjust.works)

[pictured: a sobbing Pepe the frog holding a gun to the roof of their mouth]...

US says Israel has not violated international law during Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)

After Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months. An Al Jazeera probe concluded the World Central Kitchen vehicles were deliberately hit.

Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)

A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing: A Planned Amendment to This Week’s Vote Would Be the Largest Expansion of FISA in Over 15 Years (US-focused) (cdt.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/15139215...

More Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck this year than in 2023 (www.cnbc.com)

Dying for a bag of flour: Videos and eyewitness accounts cast doubt on Israel’s timeline of deadly Gaza aid delivery | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

CNN collected testimonies and videos from 22 eyewitnesses, many of whom had traveled from other cities across Gaza in the hopes of finding something for their families to eat. When the convoy passed through an Israeli checkpoint on Al Rashid Street, the main north-south route designated by the Israeli military for humanitarian...

The US and Its Allies Face a $10 Trillion Reckoning in the Race to Rearm (www.bloomberg.com)

"A new era of global rearmament is gathering pace, and it will mean vast costs and some tough decisions for western governments already struggling with shaky public finances,” Bloomberg reports....

PiVPN Releases Final Version and Announces Project Shutdown (linuxiac.com)

PiVPN is no longer maintained. You can find more information here...

I can fix her! (infosec.pub)

[Mental Outlaw] Google Created a New Device Tracking Network (odysee.com)

El Salvador offers 5,000 passports to skilled foreign workers (edition.cnn.com)

An Estimate on the Total Number of Xfce Users (alexxcons.github.io)

I just noticed the Australian man from Spa 5 is also on Osiris 4 in a later episode (lemm.ee)

I’ve seen this show thousands of times. I have most of it memorized to the point where I can recite it from memory, but I still catch new things all the time. That’s one of my favorite things about this show....

The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)

"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."

Thoughts on these SATA/M.2-->SATA/2.5" adapters? (feddit.nl)

Trying to squeeze some more storage in my MiniPC. I have questions about these. These use hardward RAID with selectable modes (Individual/JBOD/RAID1/RAID2)....

Karen Ethnic Army Launches Final Push to Capture Myawaddy on Thai Border (www.irrawaddy.com)

Myawaddy is economically vital to Myanmar and the military regime as it is the main conduit for trade between Myanmar and its second largest trade partner Thailand....

Automattic buys Beeper for $125MM, launches closed-source "encrypted" messaging app (techcrunch.com)

Curious how none of the coverage of this purchase mention that the app isn’t open-source, which makes all of their claims of “end-to-end encryption” worthless...

Identify this Queen song in the intro please (www.youtube.com)

Israel’s security at core of German foreign policy due to Holocaust, ICJ hears (www.theguardian.com)

Nicaragua told the ICJ that it was “pathetic” for Germany to provide Palestinians with humanitarian aid while supplying the arms that killed them, and that Germany seemed “not to be able to differentiate between self-defence and genocide”.

Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI (arstechnica.com)

On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a "mixture of experts" (MoE) model with open weights that reportedly truly matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance—an achievement that has been claimed by others in the past but is being taken seriously by AI heavyweights such as OpenAI's Andrej...