Ohio GOP Senator Says 'Civil War' Needed If Trump Loses. (www.commondreams.org)
Sharks in Brazil test positive for cocaine, say scientists (www.cnn.com)
The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube - YouTube (youtu.be)
Llama 3.1 AI Models Have Officially Released (llama.meta.com)
Big day for people who use AI locally. According to benchmarks this is a big step forward to free, small LLMs.
Boredom
Thought that if we are so easily bored in our modern society, much more than were our grandparents for example, it’s because of technology that simplify all our daily activities. When it was necessary to do the laundry in a basin, it took a lot more time than just pushing on a button to launch the washing machine, then there...
How J.D. Vance Went From Green Tech Investor to Climate Change Doubter (www.rollingstone.com)
Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone closed after hydrothermal explosion (www.nbcmontana.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17883567...
Secret Service chief to Congress: 'We failed' (www.npr.org)
Respawn Announces Changes to Apex Legends Battle Pass After Community Outcry - IGN (www.ign.com)
Has to be those frozen wind turbines and solar panels... (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17714161...
Forbes: A Big Mideast War Is Unavoidable (www.forbes.com)
Google combines 3 teams to focus on making the Play Store a better platform for developers (www.androidpolice.com)
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/3060096...
Israeli settlers court Republican religious right after Hamas attacks (www.reuters.com)
Ruth Lieberman, a Jewish settler in the Israeli occupied West Bank, is determined to thwart international pressure for a sovereign Palestinian state. And her friendships with prominent U.S. Republicans from the party’s religious right are helping, she says....
POV: it's almost end of the month and you ran out of money (discuss.online)
Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)
Southwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the US, is seemingly unaffected by the problematic CrowdStrike update that caused millions of computers to BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) because it used Windows 3.1. The CrowdStrike issue disrupted operations globally after a faulty update caused newer computers to freeze and stop...
New Report Details Massive Impact of Methane Emissions on Near-Term Climate Picture (www.commondreams.org)
Hands On with Spacetop the AR Laptop (www.youtube.com)
Purrs like a kitten (lemmy.today)
A six-month investigation reveals that many carbon credit ventures reap profits from public lands they have no right to and fail to share revenue with those protecting the forest. (wapo.st)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/11720126...
Need help routing Wireguard container traffic through Gluetun container [Solved]
The solution has been found, see the “Solution” section for the full write up and config files....
Google to purge low-quality apps from the Play Store with new policy starting next month (alternativeto.net)
We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny (www.theguardian.com)
How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia unleashed them on a completely blank smartphone linked to a new, unused email address....
JPMorgan Strategist Who Predicted Biden Withdrawal Has Gloomy Outlook For EV Sector, Ukraine War (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
JPMorgan Asset Management strategist Michael Cembalest had previously predicted that President Joe Biden would drop out from this year’s presidential race in his list of “top 10 possible surprises for 2024” published in the company’s Jan. 1 “Eye on the Market Outlook” report.