Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git (groups.google.com)
For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git....
Xbox consoles getting full-screen ad (www.ign.com)
Xbox users booting up their console today were greeted with a large splash screen prompting them to buy it now that the new campaign is out, and some of them aren’t too happy about it.
12ft.io (paywall article unlocker site) has been banned by Vercel (twitter.com)
Hundreds storm airport in Russia in antisemitic riot over arrival of plane from Israel (apnews.com)
Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field Sunday, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported....
Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice? (www.latimes.com)
A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far (www.ctvnews.ca)
A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far::It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig — and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover.
Utilities have been lying to us about gas stoves since the 1970s - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)
omg, is this for real? weird how recent conspiracy rumbling about gvmnt taking away gas stoves may have been covering for a real conspiracy. First I’ve read about benzene in stove fumes. Like cooking w/gas
Tesla owners fuming as they get £17,000 bill to fix car after 'driving in rain' (www.mirror.co.uk)
104-year-old Chicago woman dies days after making a skydive that could put her in the record books (apnews.com)
Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old Chicago woman whose recent skydive could see her certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to ever jump from a plane, has died....
X users report unlabeled clickbait ads that you can’t block or report (www.theverge.com)
Extremely confused Hexbear admin, a Lesbian Trans Jew, unironically posts and praises Stalin -- You know, the same Stalin who executed Queers and Jews (sh.itjust.works)
Putin repeats assertion that Russia did not start war in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a “special military operation” to try to stop it....
Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect (www.theguardian.com)
I get it now (lemmy.world)
Racism from Tankie Admin and future Lemmy Developer about how the opinion of certain ethnicities in China doesn't matter (sh.itjust.works)
Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations (www.phoronix.com)
Dallas mayor switches parties to join GOP (www.cnn.com)
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city....
Twitter Ranked Dead Last on Climate Misinformation Scorecard (gizmodo.com)
Climate scientists and activists have since fled the platform now known as X since the Elon Musk takeover last year....
Penny Arcade sums up the Unity debacle in the first panel. (www.penny-arcade.com)
Today’s Penny Arcade is a near perfect commentary on the Unity debacle....
'It's an outrage': L.A. County sheriff's deputy killed in ambush outside Palmdale station (www.latimes.com)
The End of Roe Is Having a Chilling Effect on Pregnancy (www.politico.com)
Polling conducted in August by All In Together, in partnership with polling firm Echelon Insights found that 34 percent of women aged 18-39 said they or someone they know personally has “decided not to get pregnant due to concerns about managing pregnancy-related medical emergencies.” Put another way, poor or unavailable...
Free Download Manager site redirected Linux users to malware for years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A reported Free Download Manager supply chain attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian package repository that installed information-stealing malware....
New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift (www.dexerto.com)
A patent filed by Nintendo suggests that they’re working on Hall Effect style joysticks for the Switch 2 that would eliminate stick drift almost entirely.