“Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan | California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation. (arstechnica.com)
“Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan | California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation.::California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation.
Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses (www.reuters.com)
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs (www.404media.co)
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Some Americans have become saddled with credit card debt as rent and everyday prices remain high (apnews.com)
While the U.S. economy is broadly healthy, pockets of Americans have run through their savings and run up their credit card balances after battling inflation for more than two years....
‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point (www.theguardian.com)
Last year the annual number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time. Most analysts believe the figure is only the tip of an iceberg of scientific fraud....
WHO chief warns 'future generations may not forgive us' if pandemic treaty not agreed upon: 'There will be a next time' (fortune.com)
Future generations may not forgive the World Health Organization’s member nations, should they fail to agree on a pandemic treaty, the organization’s chief said Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit, calling the agreement “mission critical for humanity.”...
Canada extends ban on foreign ownership of housing by two years - Reuters (news.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) - Canada on Sunday announced a two-year extension to a ban on foreign ownership of Canadian housing, saying the step was aimed at addressing worries about Canadians being priced out of housing markets in cities and towns across the country....
My life be like (lemmy.zip)
Report: 95% of studios are working on or aim to release a live service game (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Ukraine claims its sea drones sank a Russian warship. Moscow says Patriot missiles downed its plane (apnews.com)
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse (arstechnica.com)
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany (alexwlchan.net)
Some version of this has been floating around the Internet since 2007, probably earlier. This tweet is pretty emblematic of posts about this claim: it’s stated as pure fact, with no supporting evidence or explanation. We’re meant to just accept that a single PDF can only cover about half the area of Germany, and we’re not...
Lauren Boebert brutally mocked by Republican at congressional dinner (www.newsweek.com)
Religious trauma still haunts millions of LGBTQ Americans (www.nbcnews.com)
Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders....
Special monitor suggests Trump falsified disclosures over $48 million loan in what could be tax evasion, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
A court-appointed monitor in Trump’s fraud case said his company filed disclosures with "errors."...
TIL why YouTube buffers when my network is fine. Set network to prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6 (learn.microsoft.com)
I have 2ms ping to YouTube and my network is wired 1gbit so it was odd to get so many buffering issues. So i did a search and this solution immediately solved the buffering issue! Prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6 and it’s buttery smooth
Measles is “growing global threat,” CDC tells doctors in alert message (arstechnica.com)
China's usually strict sensors are seemingly ignoring rising antisemitism online (www.cnn.com)
UN court orders Israel to ensure acts of genocide are not committed in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
In an interim judgment delivered on Friday, the president of the court, Joan Donoghue, said Israel must “take all measures within its power” to prevent acts that fall within the scope of the genocide convention and must ensure “with immediate effect” that its forces do not commit any of the acts covered by the...
Nintendo’s Next Switch Coming This Year With LCD, Omdia Says (archive.ph)
Florida advances law banning children under 16 from using social media (www.theguardian.com)
Bill would prohibit teenagers from creating an account, and is now headed to the state’s Republican-controlled senate...
Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers (www.eff.org)
Full text from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) article:...
According to Kotaku: 25 Days Into 2024 And 5,800+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced (kotaku.com)
this is a running tally they’re compiling in a single “article” and yeahhhh. not looking very good right now
Ukraine to start building 4 new nuclear reactors this year - minister (news.yahoo.com)
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine expects to start construction work on four new nuclear power reactors this summer or autumn, Energy Minister German Galushchenko told Reuters on Thursday, as the country seeks to compensate for lost energy capacity due to the war with Russia....