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People right now to LMG... (lemmus.org)

We shall wait and see what the investigations show…...

School district in the U.S. uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (web.archive.org)

Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Accessibility Features Let You Slow Down Gameplay - IGN (www.ign.com)

Insomniac Games has revealed some accessibility features coming to Marvel's Spider-Man 2 including the ability to slow down gameplay.

Hawaii fires: 'Tourists swim in the waters we died in' (www.bbc.com)

The jarring contrast between those holidaying and those hurting is hard to bear for many in Hawaii.

People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently (mashable.com)

Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared (abcnews.go.com)

As the heat rises in Texas, law enforcement is working to untangle a mystery involving the disappearance of a life-saving measure for migrants traveling through an arid region

Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers (unseen-japan.com)

article headline: Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X...

Dog abandoned at Pittsburgh airport after owner learns it needs crate to fly (www.foxnews.com)

Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality (variety.com)

Different country, different culture. Anyhow, the movie is actually somewhat superficial, I understand.

Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)

The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...

Elon Musk says X will fund legal bills if users treated unfairly by bosses (www.bbc.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1121740...

I built a fightstick! (beehaw.org)

I built a fightstick the other week! Mostly for Street Fighter 6, though I have played some other 2D games including Hades and River City Girls with it as well....

A Lufthansa pilot traced a 15-mile-long penis shape in the sky after being asked to divert his plane (www.businessinsider.com)

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? (www.wired.com)

Our social interaction in a nutshell (lemmy.ml)

Warner Bros. Discovery Loses 1.8 Million Subscribers Following Max Launch (www.ign.com)

ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y (arstechnica.com)

The project is called “Lacros” which Google says stands for “Linux And ChRome OS.” This will split ChromeOS’s Linux OS from the Chrome browser, allowing Google to update each one independently....

FBI finds 200 sex trafficking victims, 59 missing children in two-week sweep (www.nbcnews.com)

The nationwide operation also identified or arrested 126 suspects of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking and 68 suspected traffickers.

OpenTracks is an open source sport tracking application for Android that completely respects your privacy: Almost a Strava alternative (beehaw.org)

Value your health by keeping track on your training. It records as you go running or walking, and gives you a bike computer with a bigger screen for cycling. You can even mark interesting locations along your way with pictures. The app keeps recorded statistics in great detail for analysis....

Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/834308...

Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it (arstechnica.com)

New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires (fortune.com)

New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires::After a series of deadly fires.

HISD to eliminate librarians, turn libraries into discipline centers at 28 campuses (www.click2houston.com)

Houston Independent School District will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and converting the libraries into ‘Team Centers” where kids with behavioral issues will be sent, the district announced.