Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)
Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....
Chinese scientists find way to mass-produce optical chips US cannot sanction (www.scmp.com)
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A migrant family is undeterred by Biden’s push to restrict asylum (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/biden-immigration-asylum-policy…
New polling shows most Americans and Europeans want the Ukraine war to come to an end.
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Who is Jonathan Kaye? Millionaire investment banker slugs woman on NYC street during Brooklyn Pride, shocking video shows (lemmings.world)
Jonathan Kaye, 52, was recorded throwing a vicious overhand right at the unnamed woman in Brooklyn on Saturday evening. The woman is seen being thrown to the floor by the force of the punch. It is unclear what sparked the confrontation.
Aptoide app store hits iOS in the European Union (www.notebookcheck.net)
As a direct consequence of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Google Play alternative Aptoide is now ready to take on iOS as well. The closed launch will take place tomorrow, and new users will need an invitation to join. Between 500 and 1,000 daily invites will be issued in the first stage....
Migrants are rattled and unsure as US deportations begin under new rule halting asylum (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/migrants-biden-deportation-asyl…
Ukraine says hackers abuse SyncThing tool to steal data (www-bleepingcomputer-com.cdn.ampproject.org)
“A ton of aggravating factors”: Legal experts weigh path to jail sentence for Trump (www.salon.com)
Scientists are fixing flawed forensics that can lead to wrongful convictions (www.sciencenews.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/investigating-crime-science-for…
EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)
We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...
Here's the original Fallout on a Nintendo 3DS (www.eurogamer.net)
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (www.wired.com)
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Documents reveal horror of Maine's deadliest mass shooting (apnews.com)
In response to the lemmy.ml moderation polemic: beware of bad faith agents!
One of the biggest topics of these days is that of mods in lemmy.ml banning and censoring people because they’re Tankies. This has had a rather sizeable discussion of people agreeing and even arguing for defederating ml. I’m sure a lot of people are arguing from good intentions, but there’s also bad faith actors among...
Bear (lemmy.world)
Fuck Kai Winn
I know it’s been posted before, but I’m rewatching DS9, and man, fuck Kai Winn.
'Experiencing the world as best he can': Jimmy Carter's grandson shares update on his grandfather's health (www.usatoday.com)
Texting 911 via RCS is coming to Google Messages (www.theverge.com)
Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (www.theverge.com)
Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
TIL: How The IMF and World Bank Debt Trap Countries and Force them into Austerity (medium.com)
Polish foreign minister calls for long-term rearmament of Europe (www.theguardian.com)
Radosław Sikorski also says he favours deepest possible inclusion of UK in EU defence structures...
Xi Jinping’s Recipe for Total Control in China: An Army of Eyes and Ears (www.nytimes.com)
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