Helldivers 2’s concurrent Steam player record is PlayStation Studios’ highest yet (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Bard becomes Gemini: Google launches their most powerful LLM, Ultra 1.0 (blog.google)
Today we’re launching Gemini Advanced — a new experience that gives you access to Ultra 1.0, our largest and most capable state-of-the-art AI model. In blind evaluations with our third-party raters, Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0 is now the most preferred chatbot compared to leading alternatives....
YSK those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)
Many have microSD cards soldered to their circuit boards.
Disney is investing $1.5b in Epic Games and building a new universe connected to Fortnite | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Chinese Ships Get Insurance Edge Navigating Red Sea (gcaptain.com)
Inside the shifting plan at Elon Musk’s X to build a new team and police a platform ‘so toxic it’s almost unrecognizable’ (fortune.com)
[fake-news] Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages (www.tomshardware.com)
Fear them tooth brushes.
Linux Sucks - a contrarian view from the lemmy hivemind about why linux sucks (discuss.tchncs.de)
discuss.tchncs.de/c/antilinux...
Fleshy Pods (slrpnk.net)
TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)
The most obvious example is the TikTok Shop. The company is pushing its eCommerce so hard you hear about it more than any other topic on the app, both in ads and organic videos from creators hoping for a share of the profits. The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular...
Major Xbox influencers pull support over multiplatform rumours (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York (www.propublica.org)
“Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from the pockets of hardworking New Yorkers by unscrupulous employers, often targeting the workers with the fewest resources to fight back,” Rosenthal said. “If businesses refuse to do the right thing and pay their workers what they are owed, New York State should hold them to...
Sam Altman says ChatGPT should be 'much less lazy now' (www.businessinsider.com)
Sam Altman says ChatGPT should be ‘much less lazy now’::ChatGPT users previously complained that the chatbot was slacking off and refusing to complete some tasks.
PSA: Update your docker installation. Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Snyk team has found four vulnerabilities collectively called “Leaky Vessels” that impact the runc and Buildkit container infrastructure and build tools, potentially allowing attackers to perform container escape on various software products....
There are "five Resident Evil games in development right now, including Resident Evil 9", leaker claims (www.eurogamer.net)
‘Incredibly rare’ discovery reveals bedbugs came to Britain with the Romans (www.theguardian.com)
Archaeologists find remains of insects that ‘hitchhiked’ here nearly 2,000 years ago...
'Betrayed' SAP workers rebel against forced office return (www.euronews.com)
‘Betrayed’ SAP workers rebel against forced office return::The German software giant has changed direction, and more than 5,000 employees have signed an internal petition saying they feel ‘betrayed’.
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. (arstechnica.com)
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.::Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.
Bao Fan: Missing China billionaire banker resigns from all roles (www.bbc.com)
Chinese billionaire banker Bao Fan, who has been missing for almost a year, has resigned from all roles at his firm, China Renaissance Holdings....
Tesla recalling another 2.2 million vehicles for warning lights that are too small. (lite.cnn.com)
Melissa Barrera Incites More Controversy With New Social Media Posts, Sparking Heated Debate at WME (variety.com)
Melissa Barrera is under fire over new social media posts, prompting her reps at WME and Sugar23 to explore dropping the actress as a client.
Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover (github.com)
If your instance is not up to date (see footer), you can pass this along to your admins to check
23andMe’s fall from $6 billion to nearly $0 — a valuation collapse of 98% from its peak in 2021 (www.wsj.com)
23andMe’s fall from $6 billion to nearly $0 — a valuation collapse of 98% from its peak in 2021::undefined