‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery (www.theguardian.com)
Woman complained of forgetfulness and depression before doctors pulled out an 8cm roundworm normally found in pythons
FYI: Ed Sheeran is a scab. (jezebel.com)
A Judicial "Trolley Problem" (lemmy.zip)
Philippa Foot is most known for her invention of the Trolley Problem thought experiment in the 1960s. A lesser known variation of hers is as follows:...
Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted' (www.businessinsider.com)
Meta's news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada (www.businessinsider.com)
Meta’s news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada::Canadians are calling on Meta to lift its news ban so they can share news about the wildfires in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia.
AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge (www.theverge.com)
AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge::United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell found that AI-generated artwork can’t be copyrighted, putting to rest a lawsuit against the US Copyright Office over its refusal to copyright an AI-generated image.
HUP! (slrpnk.net)
RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor (groups.google.com)
Here is a message from his family
Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel’s 2020 election interference probe (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol....
Call of Duty bans more than 14,000 cheaters in 24 hours (www.techspot.com)
Call of Duty bans more than 14,000 cheaters in 24 hours::undefined
‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out (www.theguardian.com)
How it feels to install windows in 2023 (sh.itjust.works)
Singapore hangs woman convict for drug trafficking, first in almost 20 years (www.wionews.com)
Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there (www.businessinsider.com)
Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people’s data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there::Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X (www.cnn.com)
Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds (finance.yahoo.com)
Microsoft says it won't let you use Mail & Calendar app on Windows 11 (www.windowslatest.com)
18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’. (www.wdbj7.com)
Boeing accepts a plea deal to avoid a criminal trial over 737 Max crashes, Justice Department says (apnews.com)
Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly crashes of 737 Max jetliners after the government determined the company violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution for more than three years, the Justice Department said Sunday night....
Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app (www.theverge.com)
Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 • The Register (www.theregister.com)
2 killed, 8 wounded in mass shooting outside Arkansas grocery store (www.cbsnews.com)
Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report (petapixel.com)
Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think...