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

A new challenger has appeared to challenge Soviet tanks for the title of The worst tank (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Careful what you wish for (sopuli.xyz)

Aptoide becomes first non-Apple iOS store (www.gamesindustry.biz)

Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light (www.wired.com)

Damning Report on Judge Cannon Reveals She’s Prone to Exploitation (newrepublic.com)

Lawyers who appeared before Judge Aileen Cannon had some sharp critiques of how she oversaw the courtroom....

GOG will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st (support.gog.com)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Was Forced To Follow A Strict William Shatner Rule. [It's all about Kirk all the time.] (www.slashfilm.com)

“The approach we were told to take is that Kirk really had to be the one to lead everyone. […] Not necessarily that he had to actually have the idea to do something, but it had to appear as if he has the idea.”...

Man insults judge who sentenced him to 12 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot (apnews.com)

A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him “a menace to our society.”...

Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech (www.wired.com)

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)

Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....

Trump's $60 Bible & Constitution omits amendments ending slavery and allowing women to vote (meidasnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15442706...

Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...

The real magic word (sh.itjust.works)

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn (www.wired.com)

Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu's resignation (apnews.com)

1:21 video shows the scale of the protest....

Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo (www.theguardian.com)

Egyptian and US mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days and Egyptian state news channel Al-Qahera said on Saturday that a consensus had been reached in the indirect talks over many of the disputed points but gave no further details. However, many analysts remain pessimistic after five months of stop-start...

Arizona is boosting efforts to protect people from the extreme heat after hundreds died last summer (apnews.com)

Nintendo pursuing Yuzu Forks on Github (github.com)

Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon (www.theguardian.com)

Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring 4 others (apnews.com)

Trump Lawyer Argues He Could Legally Order Assassination Of Political Rival (www.huffpost.com)

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Thursday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and stage a military coup without being prosecuted for it....