Local Cop Confronted Trump Gunman Before Shooting—But Backed Away: Report (www.thedailybeast.com)
$500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form (arstechnica.com)
Banker Who Slugged Woman at NYC Pride Event Charged With Assault (www.thedailybeast.com)
CNN reports 20-year record low debate viewership (www.salon.com)
TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou (en.wikipedia.org)
Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
An Israel offensive into Lebanon risks an Iranian military response, top US military leader says (apnews.com)
Mozilla acquired Anonym, an ad start-up (blog.mozilla.org)
ONLYOFFICE 8.1 released (github.com)
-New Features...
The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords (arstechnica.com)
A new challenger has appeared to challenge Soviet tanks for the title of The worst tank (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Careful what you wish for (sopuli.xyz)
Aptoide becomes first non-Apple iOS store (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light (www.wired.com)
Damning Report on Judge Cannon Reveals She’s Prone to Exploitation (newrepublic.com)
Lawyers who appeared before Judge Aileen Cannon had some sharp critiques of how she oversaw the courtroom....
GOG will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st (support.gog.com)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Was Forced To Follow A Strict William Shatner Rule. [It's all about Kirk all the time.] (www.slashfilm.com)
“The approach we were told to take is that Kirk really had to be the one to lead everyone. […] Not necessarily that he had to actually have the idea to do something, but it had to appear as if he has the idea.”...
Man insults judge who sentenced him to 12 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot (apnews.com)
A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him “a menace to our society.”...
Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech (www.wired.com)
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....
Trump's $60 Bible & Constitution omits amendments ending slavery and allowing women to vote (meidasnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15442706...
Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...