The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…
For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record (www.abc.net.au)
The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.
A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived (www.theguardian.com)
So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post (arstechnica.com)
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
Biden calls for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza (www.newshub.co.nz)
The US will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip....
US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War (www.news18.com)
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”...
Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden Is Arming Greece So Greece Can Arm Ukraine—And Pro-Russia Republicans Can’t Stop Him (www.forbes.com)
As the Republican Party’s blockade of aid to Ukraine drags into its fourth month, the U.S. government under Pres. Joe Biden has found a clever new way to give Ukraine’s forces the weapons and ammunition they need to defend their country....
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use (venturebeat.com)
Transgender players banned from international women’s cricket by ICC (www.theguardian.com)
The International Cricket Council has become the latest sports body to ban transgender players from the elite women’s game if they have gone through male puberty....
The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu (www.vox.com)
Last year, I wrote a great deal about the rise of “ventilation shutdown plus” (VSD+), a method being used to mass kill poultry birds on factory farms by sealing off the airflow inside barns and pumping in extreme heat using industrial-scale heaters, so that the animals die of heatstroke over the course of hours. It is one of...
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
Blocking is going to be deleted from Twitter (lemmy.world)
Get out, now.
Reddit Tries to Get Users to Pay by Making App Icon Ugly (9to5mac.com)
Obama urged Biden to beef up campaign amid worries about Trump strength in polls: report (www.usatoday.com)
GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)
While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.
UBI Cash Payments Reduced Homelessness, Increased Employment in Denver (www.businessinsider.com)
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries (www.theverge.com)
Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line (www.theverge.com)
Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)
Anti-trans Missouri A.G. can now access trans people’s medical records (newrepublic.com)
A judge ordered Planned Parenthood to hand records of transgender care over to Andrew Bailey....