Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing (noyb.eu)
Trump Suggests Feeding Migrants to Alligators at Overrun Border in Apparent Joke: ‘New Border Security, Will Work for Food’ (www.msn.com)
Reddit details how their Contributor Program will promote engagement (www.engadget.com)
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" (www.cbsnews.com)
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they “didn’t reduce carbon emissions”::Danish toy giant Lego said 2 years of experimentation with blocks made from recycled plastic bottles showed they “didn’t reduce carbon emissions.”
Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to 'unsolvable' 3-body problem (www.space.com)
Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to ‘unsolvable’ 3-body problem::Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky, but a new study may reveal 12,000 new solutions.
Anthems go hard (lemmy.zip)
Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing (www.eurogamer.net)
Starbreeze insists it is “working hard” to keep servers online after Payday 3 players endured a second consecutive evening of disruption....
They just broke the Russki lines fr (sh.itjust.works)
Crown Prince: Saudi Arabia 'will continue doing sportswashing' for money (www.nbcsports.com)
Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017 (www.techspot.com)
Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017::undefined
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Canada has Indian diplomats' communications in bombshell murder probe: sources (www.cbc.ca)
Sources tell CBC News Indian officials have not denied the existence of the intelligence in private...
'Game of Thrones' creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement (apnews.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission.
It seems that we lost 200 Lemmy servers yesterday (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
From the Average Lemmy Servers Online by Day graph...
There's a jet on the loose (lemmy.zip)
A pilot flying an F35 stealth fighter jet put the plane on auto-pilot and then ejected. The U.S. military is still looking for it:...
In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing (www.theverge.com)
In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing::US v. Google kicked off this week in the District of Columbia as the Justice Department and Google squared off over the dominant search engine.
Modder Turns Framework Laptop PCB Into a Handheld Gaming PC (www.tomshardware.com)
What if the modular computing evangelists at Framework decided to make a handheld? YouTuber Pitstoptech has largely answered this question by building a “fully upgradeable gaming handheld” around one of Framework’s upgradable motherboards....
French ski resort closes permanently because of snowfall shortage (www.cnn.com)
Mozilla is SCREWED, Just Look at Who Runs the Company (techrightswithjews.wordpress.com)
Mozilla is bleeding and its attempts to appeal to Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. It won’t fool remaining users of Firefox; many Firefox users will leave (in droves), seeing that Mozilla is not what it publicly claims to be.
This is all a moo point (lemmy.ca)
A long list of tech companies are rushing to give themselves the right to use people's data to train AI (www.businessinsider.com)
A long list of tech companies are rushing to give themselves the right to use people’s data to train AI::More companies are quietly giving themselves permission to use consumer data to train generative AI models and tools.
Humans Have Crossed 6 of 9 'Planetary Boundaries' (www.scientificamerican.com)
A Mexican ufologist claims to show 2 alien corpses to Mexico's Congress (www.npr.org)
Who wants to believe with me?
What would it take to build a self-sustaining astronaut ecosystem on Mars? (arstechnica.com)
Calls to violence are appearing on the conspiracy subreddit over a gun order from New Mexico’s governor (www.mediamatters.org)
Calls to violence are appearing on the conspiracy subreddit over a gun order from New Mexico’s governor::Users on the “r/conspiracy” subreddit, a prominent message board for conspiracy theorists, have repeatedly issued calls for violence in response to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issuing a temporary ban on...
