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Toyota and Nissan pair up with Tencent and Baidu for China AI arms race (www.cnbc.com)

Japanese police create fake support scam payment cards to warn victims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

This site claims to run Mastodon but its front-end looks fresh and smooth! (veganism.social)

Is it easy to customize Mastodon front-end or front-page like that ? Any pointers ?

Still... (gnucobol.sourceforge.io)

COBOL is not obsolete?

[OC] I (For real) remastered all of Starcraft's Terran themes. What game music should I remaster next? (soundcloud.com)

1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments, FDA says (www.nbcnews.com)

Red Cross decides against suspending Russian branch despite links to Kremlin war machine (www.theguardian.com)

The International Red Cross movement has decided not to suspend membership of the Russian Red Cross (RRC), despite potential breaches of neutrality regulations brought to light by an investigation by a group of international media outlets, including the Guardian....

Swiss parliamentary committee backs plan to deport asylum seekers (www.swissinfo.ch)

Russian soldier murder rate soars 900% on return from Ukraine war (www.independent.co.uk)

Up to 113 active Russian servicemen were convicted in 2023 - a near 900 per cent increase on just 13 in 2022...

Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband (arstechnica.com)

Trade groups claimed the state law is preempted by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s repeal of net neutrality rules. Pai’s repeal placed ISPs under the more forgiving Title I regulatory framework instead of the common-carrier framework in Title II of the Communications Act. 2nd Circuit judges did...

I think I might have a problem (lemmy.world)

Alt Text: A screenshot of the tab bar and address bar of Firefox where twelve different fediverse websites are pinned. There is a new DuckDuckGo search being made in the address bar saying, “I think I might have a problem.”...

Google Is Worth $2 Trillion Now (www.businessinsider.com)

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, hit a new milestone on Friday: a $2 trillion market cap....

Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions (apnews.com)

Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable....

Some ideals for fediverse platform design (hachyderm.io)

A little thread I wrote on masto after watching this talk by Bret Victor and reflecting on their stated ideals for how computing ought to be designed.

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it’s building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick - CBS Detroit (www.cbsnews.com)

The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

Steam’s hottest new city builder will have discounts often, so “don’t feel any pressure” to buy it (www.pcgamesn.com)

How often do you use the small pocket inside your jeans pocket (if you have it) ? and what for ?

Kenya dam bursts: More than 40 killed in Kamuchiri village (www.bbc.com)

More than 40 people have died in Kenya after a dam burst following heavy rains and flooding, officials have said....

New Star Trek: Discovery Photos — “Whistlespeak” (blog.trekcore.com)

"Dominion of Darkness" - free, narrative driven RPG/strategy simulator of the Dark Lord/Lady

"Dominion of Darkness” is a strategy text game in which the player takes on the role of a Sauron-style Lord of Darkness with the goal of conquering the world. He will carry out his plans by making various decisions. He will build his army and send it into battles, weave intrigues and deceptions, create secret spy networks and...