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US, China hold military talks in Hawaii (www.reuters.com)

Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)

A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...

Saw this fucking ad so I had to fix it (original add in post box) (slrpnk.net)

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[Mental Outlaw] AT&T Tried To Deny This Massive Data Breach (odysee.com)

Paris 2024: Russia seeking to undermine Games, says Emmanuel Macron (www.bbc.com)

Russia is running a disinformation campaign to undermine the Paris Olympics, according to French President Emmanuel Macron....

When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian (www.theguardian.com) Spanish

India appears to confirm extrajudicial killings in Pakistan (www.theguardian.com)

Defence minister’s comments after Guardian report are first time India has acknowledged any assassinations on foreign soil...

UK quit Erasmus because of Brits’ poor language skills (www.politico.eu)

Britain turned down the offer to remain a member of the cultural exchange program after Brexit....

Meta’s AI image generator really struggles with the concept of interracial couples | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Meta’s AI image generator is coming under fire for its apparent struggles to create images of couples or friends from different racial backgrounds.

Wine 9.6 released with more Direct2D effects work, support for RSA OAEP padding in BCrypt (www.gamingonlinux.com)

China tests US voter fault lines and ramps AI content to boost its geopolitical interests - Microsoft On the Issues (blogs.microsoft.com)

‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets (www.theguardian.com)

NVIDIA Releases DLSS 3.7.0 With Quality E Preset for Image Quality Improvements (www.techpowerup.com)

Israel sacks two officers after finding grave errors in strike on aid workers (www.reuters.com)

An Israeli inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza this week found serious errors and breaches of procedure by the military, with the result that two officers have been dismissed and senior commanders formally reprimanded....

Quotes of great men (lemmy.world)

Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute (www.theguardian.com)

Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland...

Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series (kotaku.com)

New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza (mondoweiss.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14006090...

AI Has Lost Its Magic (www.theatlantic.com)

World Central Kitchen aid worker's family calls for an independent probe into the deadly attack (www.nbcnews.com)

Ex-Sega studio Relic hit by fresh layoffs following sale (www.eurogamer.net)

XOrg Server and Xwayland Patched Against Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

Even if your distro is using Wayland by default, the Xwayland implementation is probably still used for compatibility with X11 apps, so you still need to patch your systems and make sure that the latest version is installed.