Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it (www.theverge.com)

Google is desperate to sell Pixel Tablets, pushing ads via notifications (www.androidpolice.com)

I found this, I’m wanting to get a pixel tablet in about a week or so. Title just got me wondering a bit, though it’s probably just a little bit sensationalized

I mean, alcohol is bad at its taste (lemm.ee)

Voyager 2: Nasa fully back in contact with lost space probe (www.bbc.co.uk)

Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target (www.canarymedia.com)

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A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users (boingboing.net)

New neuroscience research shows liberals experience more empathy than conservatives when they imagine others suffering (www.psypost.org)

A recent study in Israel used brain scans to explore the differences in empathy between political liberals and conservatives. The researchers found that when imagining other people suffering, liberals showed stronger brain reactions associated with empathy compared to conservatives. This pattern of brain activity was linked to...

One Reason the U.S. Can’t Quit China? Chips. (archive.ph)

Biden told Xi after Putin meeting: Be careful, your economy depends on Western investment (www.reuters.com)

U.S. President Joe Biden told Chinese President Xi Jinping following his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “be careful” because Beijing relies on Western investment.

Farmer ordered to pay after judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract acceptance (www.theglobeandmail.com)

LGBTQ+ parents are being removed from their children’s birth certificates in Italy (theconversation.com)

JD Vance once wrote that he 'convinced myself that I was gay' when he was a kid (www.businessinsider.com)

Yes, there’s more to it than that and it’s quite stupid and also quite bigoted. Republicans don’t need to know that. They didn’t and won’t read his book anyway.

Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as independent in Islington North after expulsion from Labour (www.theguardian.com)

X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit (techcrunch.com)

Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)

The leap in emissions is largely due to energy-guzzling data centers and supply chain emissions necessary to power artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The report estimated that in 2023, Google’s data centers alone account for up to 10% of global data center electricity...

Am I the only one who missed the Owncloud rewrite in Go? (owncloud.com)

The topic of self-hosted cloud software comes up often but I haven’t seen anyone mention owncloud infinite scale (the rewrite in Go)....

China: death penalty for advocating ‘Taiwan independence’ (countervortex.org)

Elon Musk's X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show (mashable.com)

ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself (www.techradar.com)

Martin Shkreli Accused of Copying and Sharing One-Of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album in New Lawsuit (www.rollingstone.com)

Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico (english.elpais.com)

A woman will lead the country for the first time in history. President López Obrador’s successor has won a second term for the National Regeneration Movement and stifled the conservative coalition’s aspirations...

Trump falsely claims he never called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up (www.washingtonpost.com)

Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die (www.techspot.com)

If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?

The countries with the most Fediverse servers are rich and former/current colonial powers. One of the best true barometers of the success of the Fediverse is how quickly we can turn that on its head. (sopuli.xyz)

In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...