Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way (www.spacebar.news)

Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu. (www.theverge.com)

Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu.::Disney and Comcast have reached a deal on Hulu’s buyout. Disney expects to pay about $8.61 billion to get the 33 percent owned by Comcast as a result of their agreement in 2019.

Do You Need To Wash Rice Before Cooking? Here’s The Science (www.iflscience.com)

I found this article pretty interesting… it seems to contradict the current cooking zeitgeist

Israel tells Gazans to move south or risk being seen as 'terrorist' partner (www.reuters.com)

Japan Court Rules Against Mandatory Transgender Sterilization (www.hrw.org)

Surgery Requirement Held to be Unconstitutional...

Australians vote No in referendum that promised change for First Nations people but couldn’t deliver (www.cnn.com)

With a two-letter word, Australians have struck down the first attempt at constitutional change in 24 years, major media outlets reported, a move experts say will inflict lasting damage on First Nations people and suspend any hopes of modernizing the nation’s founding document....

It astounds me that anyone thinks otherwise on Hamas. (lemmy.world)

Cop outted as OnlyFans model after pulling over subscriber: ‘I saw you have sex’ (www.dexerto.com)

Even the cops are making OnlyFans. She should have just given him an autograph.

[Survey] Can you tell which images are AI generated? (forms.gle)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/3974080...

Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (www.theguardian.com)

Do you have any phobia? (psychcentral.com)

What is a phobia?...

Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks (www.theregister.com)

Can you blame it?

Nebraska US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills (www.theguardian.com)

X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service (techcrunch.com)

X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation

Starfield is the latest game to be boycotted by conservatives. This time because of pronouns (theconversation.com)

Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.

Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits. (arstechnica.com)

Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.::Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.

Sennheiser Exits Gaming Headphone Business (www.anandtech.com)

Technically the successor owner of the gaming brand....

[REPOST] Woman says she started wearing ‘terrible wigs’ after work banned her pink hair (www.thelondoneconomic.com)

cross-posted from: rabbitea.rs/post/280182...

“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases—and Big Fees (www.motherjones.com)

Elon Musk’s alleged penchant for not paying bills is catching up with him. In the wake of numerous lawsuits claiming the world’s richest man failed to pay severance owed to many of the 6,000 employees he fired after acquiring Twitter. On Monday, CNBC reported that the tech company now known as X is facing some 2,200...

Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay (www.gamesindustry.biz)

More concerning than Bethesda’s decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.

Burger King faces legal claim saying Whopper is too small (www.bbc.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2089880...

Baldur’s Gate 3 had to be scaled back for the Series S, but the console still has a right to exist (www.vg247.com)

It'll be the cheapest place, by an absurd margin, to play Baldur's Gate 3.

Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power. Here's how to manually open a Tesla door if you get stuck inside. (www.businessinsider.com)

Numerous Tesla owners have said they’ve been stuck inside their EVs after the cars suddenly lost power....

What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age' (spectrumlocalnews.com)

Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.