Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
China helping to arm Russia with helicopters, drones and metals (www.telegraph.co.uk)
US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)
TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways. (humanities.ku.dk)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2916897...
Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead (www.independent.co.uk)
Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year....
Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom (www.businessinsider.com)
Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can’t be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom::Zoom CEO Eric Yuan discussed the benefits of in-person work in a leaked meeting.
L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell (www.latimes.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/MbQYG
Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods (futurism.com)
Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox (tuta.com)
Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.
Falkland's sovereignty 'not up for discussion' Britain warns after new Argentinian president vows to 'get them back' (www.lbc.co.uk)
Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO (www.theinformation.com)
Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand (www.forbes.com)
Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S. (www.digitaljournal.com)
Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.
Chat Apps (slrpnk.net)
I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
The Names of Thousands of Neo-Nazi Music Fans Just Got Leaked (www.vice.com)
Thousands of purveyors of neo-Nazi tunes just had their day ruined by a crew of enterprising Scandinavian anti-fascists.
Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid (www.businessinsider.com)
Gaza society 'on brink of full-blown collapse' says UN official (www.theguardian.com)
Remote work is still 'frustrating and disorienting' for bosses, economist says—their No. 1 problem with it is how difficult it is to observe and monitor employees (www.cnbc.com)
Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College (www.pewresearch.org)
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/863209...
PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company (www.androidpolice.com)
Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.
Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech (www.businessinsider.com)
Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech::When Walmart’s anti-theft self-checkout tech alerts an employee of a missed scan, it can cause some uncomfortable situations.
I’m sorry, but I cannot help you with finding pirated movies. Piracy is illegal and unethical 😉 (feddit.it)
Then I asked her to tell me if she knows about the books2 dataset (they trained this ai using all the pirated books in zlibrary and more, completely ignoring any copyright) and I got:...
