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Shein's pre-IPO charm offensive hits roadblocks in Europe (www.reuters.com)

As online fast-fashion retailer Shein ramps up its pre-IPO charm offensive in Britain, pushback is growing too from Europe’s retail industry and lawmakers....

PandaBuy pays ransom to hacker only to get extorted again (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

LOL

NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI (www.reuters.com)

Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns.”...

US pier in Gaza to reopen for humanitarian aid after sea damage (www.usatoday.com)

We’ve just had a year in which every month was a record-setter (arstechnica.com)

Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide (sh.itjust.works)

Self-hosted alternative to synology drive?

I moved off a Synology NAS to a self-managed machine and one thing I still struggle to replace is something like a synology drive. Here are my requirements:...

Biden rules out pardon for son Hunter (www.axios.com)

The president’s son is currently standing trial on three felony gun charges that could carry a sentence of up to 25 years in jail if he is found guilty....

Car (lemmy.world)

What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?

trying to log it to a homework website. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

if i search on the internet, nothing seems to help for error code 600010. though its the last real day....

Hypothetical Game Ideas

What game would you create if you had the skills and experience of a veteran game dev? I.e. John Carmack...

Star Wars Outlaws: Official Teaser | Summer Game Fest 2024 (www.youtube.com)

How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?

On a recent post, there were a lot of comments, which said that they were missing the headphones on newer mobile devices....

Oof: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League lost Warner Bros. $200 million—which is $25 million more than the original 2016 movie cost to make (www.pcgamer.com)

GPS interferences affecting tractors on Finland's eastern border | Yle News (yle.fi)

China wants to recruit military pilots from the U.S. and its allies to strengthen Chinese air power, bulletin warns (www.nbcnews.com)

The warning from the U.S. and its four closest intellignce partners follows several arrests of U.S. service members for allegedly trying to pass info to China....

Updated Intel Meteor Lake Tuning For Linux Shows Huge Performance/Power Improvements (www.phoronix.com)

Engine placement in cars

Why do some cars have their engines in the front and some in the back, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the two builds. And why doesn’t every car have full wheel drive?

Possibly based on a true story (lemmy.world)

JP = Japan Post

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them on the...

2 police officers under investigation after they were recorded beating a man with batons at a bus stop (www.nbcnews.com)

Two Seattle police officers are under investigation after a bystander recorded them beating a man with their batons at a bus stop last week....

AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text (apnews.com)

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online....