Drones are the new machine guns (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison freed after murder conviction overturned (www.nbcnews.com)
A judge ruled last month Sandra Hemme must be freed or retried for the 1980 murder within 30 days, but the Missouri Attorney General fought to keep her imprisoned....
UK watchdog accuses Apple of failing to report sexual images of children (www.theguardian.com)
Apple is failing to effectively monitor its platforms or scan for images and videos of the sexual abuse of children, child safety experts allege, which is raising concerns about how the company can handle growth in the volume of such material associated with artificial intelligence....
'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month (www.abc.net.au)
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed rollout of solar and wind power, China is going all in on renewables....
Japanese carmakers ‘very scared’ by China’s rapid EV development (www.ft.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18256978...
Live updates: Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
This is it. The leaks were true. He’s gone for good.
‘Dismantled ... For Spare Parts.’ Russians Attack With Their Best Tanks And Worst War Bikes—And Run Into Heavily-Armed Ukrainian Paratroopers. (www.forbes.com)
I have not forgiven Met officers who photographed dead daughters, mother says (www.theguardian.com)
Mina Smallman, the mother of two women murdered in a London park, has forgiven their killer but not the two Metropolitan police officers who took and shared photos of their bodies, she said....
Republicans united on Trump, divided on abortion. (www.voanews.com)
The ICJ Ruling Confirms What Palestinians Have Been Saying for 57 Years (theintercept.com)
The United Nation’s top court filed a ruling Friday that echoed what Palestinian advocates have been saying for decades: Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, including its settlements in the West Bank, is illegal and must end....
TIL “The Dark Side of the Moon”’s cover is apparently public domain if you slapped the letters “CGI” on it (commons.wikimedia.org) Spanish
Some government employee made the “new logo” in the 90s for NCSA software (the Common Gateway Interface), and government work is public domain....
Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues (apnews.com)
World Court says Israel’s presence in Palestinian territories is illegal (www.aljazeera.com)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and that it should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”.
Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me. (i.imgur.com)
In response to Supreme Court ruling, U.S. begins dropping Jan. 6 obstruction charges for some Proud Boys, others (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/jan-6-defendants-obstruction-ch…
Cillian O'Sullivan To Play Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds – Trek Central (trekcentral.net)
China to Achieve its 2030 Installed Clean Energy Target in July 2024 (climateenergyfinance.org)
Food aid is piling up inside Gaza. Here's why it's not reaching those in need (www.npr.org)
Democrats warn JD Vance will enable Trump’s ‘extreme Maga agenda’ (www.theguardian.com)
Elizabeth Warren calls Vance faux populist while party says he will ‘take women back decades’ on abortion...
Dirty diaper resold on Amazon ruined a family business, report says (arstechnica.com)
Summary:...
Free drink refills could be banned in Wales under Welsh government consultation (www.bbc.co.uk)
Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)
Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.
Biggest US grocery chain investigated over Uber-style surge pricing (www.msn.com)
Kroger, America’s biggest supermarket chain, is being investigated over its use of electronic price labels on store shelves nationwide. US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey announced they were looking into the practice to see if the chain was engaging in surge pricing. So-called ‘dynamic pricing’ is common in other...
Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls (www.bbc.com)
Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system (www.theverge.com)
I’m not convinced that the ROG Ally is designed as well as the Steam Deck, and I’m less than impressed with Asus in recent years, but I do love open systems. This seems like a good move for Steam OS.
