Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as independent in Islington North after expulsion from Labour (www.theguardian.com)
X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit (techcrunch.com)
Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)
The leap in emissions is largely due to energy-guzzling data centers and supply chain emissions necessary to power artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The report estimated that in 2023, Google’s data centers alone account for up to 10% of global data center electricity...
Am I the only one who missed the Owncloud rewrite in Go? (owncloud.com)
The topic of self-hosted cloud software comes up often but I haven’t seen anyone mention owncloud infinite scale (the rewrite in Go)....
China: death penalty for advocating ‘Taiwan independence’ (countervortex.org)
Elon Musk's X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show (mashable.com)
ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself (www.techradar.com)
Martin Shkreli Accused of Copying and Sharing One-Of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album in New Lawsuit (www.rollingstone.com)
Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico (english.elpais.com)
A woman will lead the country for the first time in history. President López Obrador’s successor has won a second term for the National Regeneration Movement and stifled the conservative coalition’s aspirations...
Trump falsely claims he never called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up (www.washingtonpost.com)
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die (www.techspot.com)
If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?
The countries with the most Fediverse servers are rich and former/current colonial powers. One of the best true barometers of the success of the Fediverse is how quickly we can turn that on its head. (sopuli.xyz)
In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...
Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53 (www.nbcnews.com)
More than half of Americans think the U.S. is in a recession. It's not. (www.axios.com)
TCL demonstrates 4K gaming monitor with a 1,000 Hz refresh rate (www.tomshardware.com)
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
Dozens of professors among those arrested in campus protests | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
As police cracked down on anti-war protests on college campuses across the US in recent weeks, among those arrested were a pair of silver-haired 65-year-old professors armed only with their cell phones....
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant’s brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday....
With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun (www.spacebar.news)
Now, if it was a Pixel... (slrpnk.net)
is there a download manager for Linux that just works? (libreddit.oxymagnesium.com)
Something as simple and as convenient to use as internet download manager...
PlayStation official response to Helldivers 2 fans (nitter.poast.org)
“Helldivers fans – we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward....
"Disable adblocker"-thing on YouTube is back (fedia.io) German
Hey everyone,...