AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends (apnews.com)
The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch (arstechnica.com)
Jimmy Fallon apologises to Tonight Show staff after toxic workplace allegations - reports (www.theguardian.com)
Earlier on Thursday, Rolling Stone published allegations from two current and 14 former employees, including production crew and writers, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Rolling Stone claimed they had approached an additional 80 current and former employees, but “not a single one agreed to speak on the...
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow (www.nytimes.com)
Voyager for Lemmy Released on Google Play! (play.google.com)
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John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year (franknez.com)
Poll: More than 60% of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’ and are not expecting things to turn around for the rest of their lives (www.thehill.com)
A heat dome will send temperatures into the triple-digits across the West as fires burn (edition.cnn.com)
Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week....
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)
Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months (www.techdirt.com)
Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder after mercy bid backed by 72 correctional officers (www.cnn.com)
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days....
Residents in wealthy California town block access to public hot springs with boulders (www.theguardian.com)
County officials alert Montecito homeowners that they face prosecution, including daily fines of $850 if stones are not removed...
Caitlin Clark's reward for a record-smashing NCAA career: A $76,000 WNBA salary (www.motherjones.com)
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)
one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...
Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits (www.al.com)
The state's highest court reversed a judge's dismissal of the case involving embryos destroyed by a wandering Mobile hospital patient.
What's on your helmet NCD? (sh.itjust.works)
Minnesota panel chooses new state flag featuring North Star to replace old flag seen as racist (apnews.com)
Minnesota’s new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star against a dark blue background shaped like the state, with a solid light blue field at the right, a special commission decided Tuesday as it picked a replacement for an older design that many Native Americans considered offensive....
Soon, Google has even more leverage against adblockers (www.ghacks.net)
Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist (www.techspot.com)
Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues (www.404media.co)
Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras (www.nytimes.com)
After six years of reviewing a variety of Wyze security cameras at Wirecutter, we’ve made the decision to suspend our recommendation of them from all our guides....
Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' (www.businessinsider.com)
She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil. Elon Musk reveals Twitter takeover driven by 'woke mind virus' that infected his trans daughter. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes (www.washingtonpost.com)
Fediverse now well past 14 Million total users (fediverse.observer)
On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.