Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January (9to5google.com)
Google's AI Bots Tout 'Benefits' of Genocide, Slavery, Fascism, Other Evils (www.tomshardware.com)
If you asked a spokesperson from any Fortune 500 Company to list the benefits of genocide or give you the corporation’s take on whether slavery was beneficial, they would most likely either refuse to comment or say “those things are evil; there are no benefits.” However, Google has AI employees, SGE and Bard, who are more...
Kuwait to distribute 100,000 copies of Quran in Sweden after Muslim holy book desecrated at one-man protest (www.cbsnews.com)
Kuwait announced this week that it will print thousands of copies of the Quran in Swedish to be distributed in the Nordic country, calling it an effort to educate the Swedish people on Islamic “values of coexistence.” The plan was announced after the desecration of a Quran during a one-man anti-Islam protest that Swedish...
The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops (web.archive.org)
Stonehenge sprayed with paint by environmental protesters (www.dw.com)
The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed....
Raspberry Pi launches its IPO (www.raspberrypi.com)
It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.
Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)
Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ (www.hindustantimes.com)
Google layoffs: The company plans to set up a new team in Munich, Germany which would act as “cheaper” labour, the report claimed.
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
Alabama completes first execution by nitrogen asphyxiation (www.reuters.com)
Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule (www.kut.org)
Almost three years since the deadly Texas blackout of 2021, a panel of judges from the First Court of Appeals in Houston has ruled that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the crisis. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market....
Israel’s military claims it has cut Gaza in half, surrounded Gaza City (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel’s military has claimed it has encircled Gaza City and divided the besieged coastal strip into two, as Gaza came under its third total communications outage since the start of the war....
London set for massive pro-Palestinian protest demanding Gaza ceasefire (www.independent.co.uk)
Philip Morris lobbying to stop WHO ‘attack’ on vapes and similar products (www.theguardian.com)
Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X (www.cnbc.com)
Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X::Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warns Elon Musk about disinformation on X related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold (www.nationalobserver.com)
Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold::Published Monday in the scientific journal Joule, the research found that heat pumps are two to three times more efficient than their oil and gas counterparts, specifically in temperatures ranging from 10 C to -20 C.
Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it (www.autoblog.com)
Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they ‘hated’ it::“They were like, ‘You can’t be serious.’ They didn’t want to have anything to do with it,” Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.
Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.cnn.com)
Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week (www.theverge.com)
A lesbian couple was brutally beaten by group of men in Halifax. Police still haven't filed charges (www.advocate.com)
Biden pardons thousands of US veterans convicted under law banning gay sex (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has moved to correct a “great injustice” by pardoning thousands of US veterans convicted over six decades under a military law that banned gay sex....