Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)
Pokémon Sleep: Japanese walkthrough site lists “sleeping pills” as a tool for real competitive sleepers, but quickly backtracks (automaton-media.com)
A Japanese video game walkthrough listing sleeping pills as one of their recommended methods to get high scores in Pokémon Sleep has gone viral on Japanese Twitter recently. The mention of sleeping aid has since been deleted from the site.
Nitter is a read-only front end for Twitter (nitter.net)
Since Twitter was bought by the world’s biggest manbaby I’ve been using Nitter to avoid giving them any traffic/analytics/etc....
Analysis | Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
EndlessOS for my partner (www.endlessos.org)
Tonight I am about to install endless os for my non technical partner. Do you think that is a good idea? Would you do the same?
Reddit app score changed dramatically (kbin.social)
Did Google help reddit? A short time ago the score for the reddit app was down around 3.2 as everyone gave it 1 star for how bad it was and all the drama going on. I just opened the play store today and the app has a 4.2. Did Google delete or discount some of those reviews?
Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week (www.theverge.com)
The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports (www.theverge.com)
Advocates say new Florida standards require slavery to be taught as 'beneficial' (www.wmfe.org)
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for teaching African American history in the state.
Kevin Mitnick has died. (www.dignitymemorial.com)
HN link: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36795173
Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers (www.reuters.com)
Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers::Demand for power in Texas hit a record high on Monday as homes and businesses kept air conditioners cranked up to escape a heatwave.
A gay couple ran a rural restaurant in peace. Then new neighbors arrived. (www.washingtonpost.com)
US refuses climate reparations for developing nations (www.bbc.com)
Thats where ChatGPT comes in (lemm.ee)
Twitter owes ex-employees $500 mln in severance, lawsuit claims (www.reuters.com)
Manny Coto, The Showrunner Who Tried To Save 'Star Trek: Enterprise,' Dies (subspacechatter.substack.com)
And he did it brilliantly!
Manny Coto Dies: Emmy-Winning ’24’ EP Who Created AI Drama ‘Next’ & Worked On ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’, ‘American Horror Story’ & ‘Dexter’ Was 62 (deadline.com)
Twitter traffic sinks in wake of changes and launch of rival platform Threads (www.theguardian.com)
Data shows the micro-blogging website has been shedding users since early 2023, not long after Elon Musk’s takeover
this is right way (lemm.ee)
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk. (en.wikipedia.org)
a.k.a. the 90–9–1 principle. Does the Fediverse follow this rule, or are there more creators here as early adopters? Are you a creator, a participator or a lurker?
Tourist who allegedly carved names into Rome’s Colosseum says he didn’t know the ‘antiquity of the monument’ | CNN (www.cnn.com)
The tourist who was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum late last month has sent a letter of apology to the local prosecutor’s office, his defense lawyer told CNN on Thursday....
Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers (www.pcgamer.com)
Bethesda Game Studios has unionized! (x.com)
no official CWA press release yet, but here’s the union’s:...
CrowdStrike Update Causes Global Microsoft Outage Affecting Banks, Airlines And More (www.forbes.com)
A global Microsoft Windows outage, caused by a CrowdStrike software update, has disrupted airlines, banking services, and 911 lines, leading to grounded flights and long queues....
