Discord to lay off 17% of staff (www.shacknews.com)
Israeli Group Claims It’s Using Big Tech Back Channels to Censor “Inflammatory” Wartime Content (theintercept.com)
Membrane-Free Green Hydrogen To Chase The Fossil Fuel Blues Away (cleantechnica.com)
NYC issues vacate orders to stabilize synagogue and nearby buildings following discovery of 60-foot tunnel (www.nbcnews.com)
An investigation by the city’s Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long, 8-foot-wide and 5-foot-high located underneath the global headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, an important Jewish site....
Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing Return To Office requirements (www.cnbc.com)
China claims it has cracked Apple Airdrop’s encryption to identify senders | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says (apnews.com)
Steamworks Development - AI Content on Steam (steamcommunity.com)
Key points:...
Russia painted fake fighter jets at its airfields, new satellite images show, likely to trick Ukraine into not blowing up the real deal (www.businessinsider.com)
Researchers discover thousands of nanoplastic bits in bottles of drinking water (www.latimes.com)
It seems anywhere scientists look for plastic, they find it: from the ice in Antarctica, to the first bowel movement produced by newborn babies....
Suicide Squad Boss Downplays Live-Service Elements Of Obviously Live-Service Game (kotaku.com)
How Google perfected the web (www.theverge.com)
First US moon landing mission in decades launches with NASA science, humans remains on board (www.cnn.com)
A towering new rocket has taken flight, carrying what could be the first commercial lander to touch down on the moon — and the first lunar landing mission to launch from the United States since 1972....
Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password (www.independent.co.uk)
Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password::‘Exploit enables continuous access to Google services, even after a user’s password is reset,’ researcher warns
IT Employment Grew by Just 700 Jobs in 2023, Down From 267,000 in 2022 (www.wsj.com)
RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed (gizmodo.com)
RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed::It’s truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.
The "Steamboat Willie" debacle or: Why IP does us more harm than good (www.forbes.com)
Hello frens,...
Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT (arstechnica.com)
With a fair amount of system integration (no wake word available) missing, of course. Which rather sounds like a feature.
The Steam Awards [yes, BG3 is GOTY, we got it] (store.steampowered.com)
Israel will appear at the Hague to contest South Africa's genocide accusations (www.middleeasteye.net)
South Africa on Friday launched a case for the ICJ stating that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the Genocide Convention and calling for a halt to its military operations in Gaza....
Iran has sent a warship into tense waters where the US Navy has been shooting down Houthi threats and destroying their boats (www.businessinsider.com)
An Iranian warship sailed into the Red Sea Monday, according to Iranian state media and other reports, risking a potential escalation of tensions in waters where attacks on commercial shipping are becoming frequent and forcing navies to intervene....
In 2023 fentanyl overdoses ravaged the U.S. and fueled a new culture war fight (www.kuow.org)
When the history of the fentanyl crisis is written, 2023 may be remembered as the year Americans woke up to an unprecedented threat scouring communities - and a deepening cultural divide over what to do about it....
Oh I love Trash (lemmy.zip)
Special counsel Jack Smith hits back at Trump’s immunity claims (www.independent.co.uk)
The filing came in the federal election subversion case ahead of 9 January oral arguments...
We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever? (www.msn.com)
We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?::Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.