'Mysterious' monolith similar to column seen in 2020 appears in Las Vegas desert: Police (abcnews.go.com)
Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
G7 agrees to loan Ukraine $50 billion from the interest on frozen Russian assets (www.npr.org)
iOS 18 Hints At A Buttonless Future For iPhone 16, Improved Battery On The Horizon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
The latest iOS 18 update strongly hints that Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup might incorporate the highly anticipated solid-state buttons....
Ridiculed Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror (arstechnica.com)
A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty (medium.com)
Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft quietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985. You need a Copilot + PC with an NPU that can deliver 40 TOPS or better to use it. So, you need to shell out at least $1,099 to get one of the new Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs that...
If Elected, Donald Trump Would Face Few Hurdles to Prosecuting Rivals- The New York Times (Free Article) (www.nytimes.com)
In effect, Mr. Trump’s candidacy is becoming a referendum on what kind of justice system the country believes it has now and wants to have in the future
42 key points of the secret #EUGoingDark surveillance plan for the new EU Commission (www.patrick-breyer.de)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/12846267...
US dog breeder fined $35m after 4,000 beagles rescued (www.bbc.com)
A company that breeds animals for medical testing has been fined a record $35m (£27m) after 4,000 beagles were rescued from its facility in Virginia in 2022....
God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC (www.pcgamer.com)
Sony learned nothing from the Helldivers 2 shitshow.
US defense secretary says war with China neither imminent nor unavoidable, stressing need for talks (apnews.com)
How a fed up carpenter found his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others (www.washingtonpost.com)
Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
China is banning ‘wealth-flaunting’ behavior on social media (www.nbcnews.com)
A woman took her sick puppy to a Maryland shelter to be euthanized. The dog is up for adoption again. (www.nbcnews.com)
Kristie Pereira said she’s tried to get Beau back after learning he was never euthanized but said the rescue organization she got him from has refused to rehome the dog with her....
USA Unprepared for H5N1 Pandemic (www.newsweek.com)
In short we’ve learned nothing, done nothing, and will be caught flat again. If you’re not ready, get ready, because no one is coming to save you.
'Stop threatening Taiwan', its new president William Lai tells China (www.bbc.com)
Taiwan’s newly inaugurated president William Lai has called on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy....
Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says (www.yahoo.com)
The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)
At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display (www.nytimes.com)
An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case....
The Real Reason Your Favourite Game Studios Are Getting Closed Instead Of Sold (www.thegamer.com)
Neom: Forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city (www.bbc.com)
Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project....