Sudan’s plea to Elon Musk’s Starlink: Please don’t shut off our internet. (www.analystnews.org)
Simpsons Hit & Run On PS Vita Could Be The Most Impressive Port Of The Year | Retro Dodo (retrododo.com)
Simpson’s Hit & Run on PS Vita: The Most Impressive Port of the Year?...
'Nothing is getting done': Angry mob storms TMON offices over refund policy (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
GPT tldr: Chaos erupted at the offices of the e-commerce platform TMON in Seoul as thousands of angry customers swarmed the building demanding refunds amid the company’s liquidity crisis. With no clear protocol in place, the crowds grew unruly as they tried to register for refunds, with many leaving empty-handed. TMON and its...
Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee (imgur.com)
Not mine but this is actually what I did too....
Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay (www.theverge.com)
Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks (www.theguardian.com)
Fault in CrowdStrike caused airports, businesses and healthcare services to languish in ‘largest outage in history’...
'I was given a choice of bosses to sleep with': Life as a female paramedic in the UK (news.sky.com)
Katie* is one of three female paramedics who have shared their experiences of being “hounded” for sexual favours in return for passing training, getting a promotion or simply keeping their jobs....
Union With Labor Dispute of Its Own Threatened To Cut Off Workers’ Health Benefits (kffhealthnews.org)
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled (techcrunch.com)
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one....
Chinese chipmaker Loongson claims its 16-core 3C6000 CPU matches Intel's Ice Lake 16-core Xeon Silver 4314 (www.tomshardware.com)
Car Repossessions Surge 23% as Americans Fall Behind on Payments (www.bloomberg.com)
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Women should have this much sex every week to avoid early death, according to science (nypost.com)
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 (blog.knowbe4.com)
Archived version...
Alleged AMD Strix Halo APU Appears in Benchmark (videocardz.com)
HP is apparently testing these upcoming APUs in a single, 8-core configuration....
Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI by default setting | Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk’s X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app....
US claims TikTok collected user views on issues like abortion, gun control. (www.voanews.com)
‘All We Think of Is Him’: Putting Names and Faces to Bangladesh Carnage (www.nytimes.com)
Olympics: Australia takes early lead against US; Day 1 of swimming. (www.voanews.com)
South Korea wrongly introduced as North Korea at Olympics (www.bbc.com)
El Guerrero - La Rebancha (imgur.com)
Seen in the ocean off the Florida keys. According to the Coast Guard all passengers were safely picked up....
Wildfire in Jasper National Park could burn for months, Canadian official says (apnews.com)
JASPER, Alberta (AP) — A wildfire that has destroyed hundreds of structures in the town of Jasper is the largest blaze recorded in Jasper National Park in a century and could still be burning months from now, a Parks Canada official said Saturday....
The Google Play Store is becoming more personalized with local recommendations (www.androidauthority.com)
The Google Play Store is starting to roll out a local recommendations feature for promotions or app recommendations.
Venezuela elections: Will voters reelect Maduro or give opposition a chance (apnews.com)
SearNGX should be a federated search engine (github.com)
All the posts about Reddit blocking everyone except Google and Brave got me thinking: What if SearNGX was federated? I.E. when data is retrieved via a providers API, that data is then federated to all other instances....