Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here | NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases (www.engadget.com)
The FTC wants to ban hidden ‘junk fees’ that jack up the price of your purchases::A new rule proposed by the FTC targets hidden and “bogus” fees businesses often add onto their services at checkout, aiming to do away with the deceptive practices.
Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 (www.404media.co)
Texas executes man who fatally shot 80-year-old woman during carjacking in 2000 (www.nbcnews.com)
A Texas man who unsuccessfully challenged the safety of the state’s lethal injection drugs and raised questions about evidence used to persuade a jury to sentence him to death for killing an elderly woman decades ago was executed late Tuesday....
Trump Boasts That Fictional Cannibal Killer Hannibal Lecter ‘Loves’ Him (themessenger.com)
Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy (www.eurogamer.net)
For Puma sightings you’ll have to go straight to their site now as Rooster Teeth moved Red vs Blue off YouTube citing decreasing ad revenue. (www.theverge.com)
Who Exactly Is Ashton Kutcher’s Anti-Sex-Trafficking Tech Company Helping? (www.thecut.com)
U.S. is sending a carrier strike group closer to Israel and will begin supplying munitions starting today (www.nbcnews.com)
Festivalgoers, children, soldiers: What we know about the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas (edition.cnn.com)
Shani Louk, a German-Israeli national, was among festivalgoers who had gathered in farmland near the Gaza-Israel border for what was supposed to be an all-night dance party celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot....
Family of kidnapped Israeli shares video of her abduction by Hamas (www.timesofisrael.com)
The family of Noa Argamani is sharing harrowing footage of her abduction in southern Israel earlier today....
Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available (www.cyberpunk.net)
New 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distros (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
From BeepingComputer.
This tankie thinks they know more about my country's history than I do (sh.itjust.works)
Designs chosen for mini nuclear reactors (www.constructionenquirer.com)
The next stage of the process will see companies able to bid for Government contracts with successful bids from the six going to contract award stage next summer....
Cannot read files from SD card which works fine under windows (gehirneimer.de)
I have a SanDisk 256GB extreme pro SD card for my camera. It works perfectly fine with the camera and with windows, but when I instert it into the card reader on linux (fedora 38) I can't copy any files from it:...
Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since the Sandy Hook shooting (apnews.com)
Connecticut’s most wide-ranging gun control measure since the 2013 law enacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting takes effect Sunday, with proponents vowing to pursue more gun legislation despite legal challenges happening across the country....
So Much for ‘Learn to Code’ (web.archive.org)
Atlantic Paywall link
iPhone 15 Pro has overheating problems (9to5mac.com)
Newsmax Host Rails Against ‘Lizard People,’ Asks Viewers ‘You Think I’m Crazy?’ (www.mediaite.com)
Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing (noyb.eu)
Attention Office Resisters: The Boss Is Counting Badge Swipes (www.wsj.com)
Ukrainian parents invited to ‘collect their children’ from Russia - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov invited Ukrainian parents to "collect their children" taken from Ukraine amid the ongoing war.
Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records (futurism.com)
An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.
AI sexbots: "Women in relationships already complain about partners addicted to porn and dissatisfied with actual intimacy" - the majority of actual users of these sexbots seem to be female (goodinternet.substack.com)
