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iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)

GTA 6 Hacker Found To Be Teen With Amazon Fire Stick In Small Town Hotel Room (hackaday.com)

Starfield has housing system, player jail, and more reveals Bethesda in new Q&A (www.eurogamer.net)

Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features worth up to $15,000 (electrek.co)

Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds (www.wired.com)

Meta conducted an experiment where thousands of users were shown chronological feeds on Facebook and Instagram for three months. Users of the chronological feeds engaged less with the platforms and were more likely to use competitors like YouTube and TikTok. This suggests that users prefer algorithmically ranked feeds that show...

Game Introduces Easy Mode Called “I’m 35 and Have One Hour to Play This” (hard-drive.net)

Aging gamers were reportedly delighted to see that a new video game called Eldric Quest has accessibility features catered specifically to people their age who do not have enough time to actually play a video game....

I lost my job to ChatGPT and was made obsolete. I was out of work for 3 months before taking a new job passing out samples at grocery stores. (www.businessinsider.com)

Insane heatwave grips southern Europe. Land surface temperature in some areas of Extremadura in Spain reached 60° Celsius!! (www.copernicus.eu)

A severe heatwave is ongoing in Europe. Temperature records broken in France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain....

Russia has planted suspected explosives on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant roofs, says Zelenskiy (cross post) (lemmy.world)

Despite economic growth, 70% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse (wtop.com)

Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska (gizmodo.com)

Lawyers for ‘Rust’ armourer move to get case dismissed after Baldwin trial collapses (www.independent.co.uk)

TIL "How do you dress?" means "Which pants leg do you put your penis down?" (www.realmenrealstyle.com)

So the tailor doesn’t touch your penis when they’re measuring you

FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days (www.theregister.com)

Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....

Dr Disrespect Admits To 'Inappropriate' Messages With Minor: 'I'm No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile' (kotaku.com)

Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs (www.xda-developers.com)

Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' (www.businessinsider.com)

Donald Trump shares stage with rightwing activist who's discussing stoning gay people to death (www.lgbtqnation.com)

49% of independents, 15% of Republicans think Trump should end campaign: poll (www.independent.co.uk)

IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)

Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel (www.bbc.com)

Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens (www.pbs.org)

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....