Venezuela has formally proposed to join the BRICS group, says Maduro (www.riotimesonline.com)
Uranium price hike projected after Niger coup spurs slight rise (www.aljazeera.com)
The price of uranium has risen slightly since last week’s military coup in Niger as mining operations have continued in the world’s seventh-largest producer of the radioactive metal, but a consultancy says prices may rise in the coming weeks....
'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Stitch in Time' Audiobook, Narrated by Andrew J. Robinson, Now Available (startrek.com)
This article features a message from Andrew J. Robinson, along with an excerpt from the audiobook.
Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires as rental market goes ‘crazy’ (www.theguardian.com)
Fukushima fish with 180 times legal limit of radioactive cesium fuels water release fears (www.theguardian.com)
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)
July 2023 set to be world’s hottest month on record (www.theguardian.com)
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and startup form body to regulate AI development (www.theguardian.com)
a body has been formed to regulate ai development
'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree (www.cnn.com)
‘It almost doubled our workload’: AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree::A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.
FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies, lawsuit says (www.cnbc.com)
‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the...
Forbes: Reddit Protests Escalate As Rebel Mods Are Kicked Out (www.forbes.com)
Forbes: Reddit Protests Escalate As Rebel Mods Are Kicked Out::Fresh trouble for Reddit as users deface digital artwork with messages attacking the company’s embattled CEO.
Reddit has started assigning power mods to subs they took over. (imgur.com)
Not much else needs to be said tbh. Fuck Spez....
Biden picks female admiral to lead Navy. She'd be first woman on Joint Chiefs of Staff (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden has chosen Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, an unprecedented choice that, if she is confirmed, will make her the first woman to be a Pentagon service chief and the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The 115F Heat Is Killing Phones in Sardinia (www.bloomberg.com)
The 115F Heat Is Killing Phones in Sardinia::undefined
Hayao Miyazaki’s final Studio Ghibli film breaks record despite no marketing (www.independent.co.uk)
Florida Board of Education approves new Black history standards that critics call ‘a big step backward’ (www.cnn.com)
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates who said students should be allowed to learn the “full truth” of American history.
Annoyed by Lemmy links not going to your home instance? I just updated LULs, the script that changes all Lemmy links everywhere to your home instance! (greasyfork.org)
If you didn’t already know about it, I included the full description after the release notes....
Only 1% of US Homes Have Changed Hands So Far This Year, Redfin Says (www.bloomberg.com)
The US home turnover rate in the first half of 2023 has fallen to the lowest in at least a decade as high mortgage rates compel owners to stay put, Redfin Corp. said....
Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ (www.theguardian.com)
Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.
UN Human Rights Expert Calls for Immediate Close of Xinjiang Muslim Detention and Torture Facility (wapnews.org)
[Meta] Decronym is now running on /c/selfhosted (decronym.xyz)
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a thread here asking whether y’all could make use of Decronym the acronym explainer bot, and reaction was positive....
Should it really be Telegram? (tim.kicker.dev)
Is Telegram really that bad and should i look more into it or is sticking to signal really the best option?
US Republicans pass defence bill with anti-abortion, LGBT add-ons (www.aljazeera.com)
Republicans in the United States House of Representatives have passed an annual defence funding bill that highlights the party’s conservative priorities – and sticking points – in advance of the 2024 election season....
Easy HTTPS for your private networks (www.getlocalcert.net)
This webpage provides instructions for using the acme-dns DNS challenge method with various ACME clients to obtain HTTPS certificates for private networks. Caddy, Traefik, cert-manager, acme.sh, LEGO and Certify The Web are listed as ACME clients that support acme-dns. For each client, configuration examples are provided that...