Exploring the mystery of the man embroiled in a Canadian mining company's billion-dollar gold scam (www.cbc.ca)
Anyone remember BreX? Sure happy I didn’t invest, although yours truly had considered it at the time.
Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year (electrek.co)
Elon is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s decided that because it’s Friday, we should all have a pile in....
Takeaways from the AP investigation into the Palestinian families being decimated in Gaza (apnews.com)
Extreme heat takes withering toll in teeming Philippine jails (www.washingtonpost.com)
Trump lashes out after DOJ reveals classified documents were found in his bedroom (www.independent.co.uk)
Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down (www.theregister.com)
How Elon Musk Went from Innovative Car Maker to Racist Demagogue Just Like Henry Ford (medium.com)
Microsoft confirms Copilot AI assistant coming to Windows 10 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.
IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute (www.techspot.com)
Am I too pessimistic about this? Today it can detect ransomware, the next day could be malware, and the day after can be any file....
'The Abyss Is Beckoning': Global Nuke Spending Surged to $2,898 a Second in 2023 (www.commondreams.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16632607...
UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left (www.bbc.com)
Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year (www.npr.org)
We see you, hard-core NPR readers — just because it’s summer doesn’t mean it’s all fiction, all the time. So we asked around the newsroom to find our staffers’ favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We’ve got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and more.
Maryland governor pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions (www.axios.com)
Monet among paintings removed from Swiss museum over Nazi looting fears (www.bbc.com)
Argentines pawn the family jewels to make ends meet (www.batimes.com.ar)
‘Terrified of losing their rights’: abortion is a leading issue for Arizona’s Latino voters (www.theguardian.com)
Organizers hope those disillusioned by electoral politics will vote with an eye on abortion rights after fall of Roe...
IMPROVISE, ADAPT, OVERCOME (lemmy.world)
ThIÄnk of the chIÄldren (sopuli.xyz)
Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now! - Threema blog (threema.ch)
Why does Asia scan to pay when the rest of the world taps? • The Register (www.theregister.com)
STILL WAKES THE DEEP First Exclusive 20 Minutes of Gameplay [Unreal Engine 5] (piped.video)
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Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)
Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) (www.spacebar.news)
Toolbx now enables the proprietary NVIDIA driver (debarshiray.wordpress.com)
Federal judge blocks Iowa law that allows authorities to criminally charge people facing deportation (www.nbcnews.com)
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked an Iowa law that allowed law enforcement in the state to file criminal charges against people with outstanding deportation orders or who previously had been denied entry to the U.S....
