Google could be working on a shared phone number blocklist for Android (www.androidauthority.com)
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt (www.nytimes.com)
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues....
PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says (www.bbc.com)
A drug which stops HIV infecting the body has proved to be a highly effective “real-world” preventative treatment, a study has confirmed. The results of the research on 24,000 people taking it across England, have been described as “reassuring”....
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)
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Two Hamas gunmen open fire at Jerusalem bus stop, killing three (www.reuters.com)
Two Hamas members kill three in morning rush hour attack...
Stable Diffusion XL Turbo can generate AI images as fast as you can type (arstechnica.com)
Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
Hey there! Figured I’d share here since my main instance, Lemmy.ml, seems to be really broken right now. I published an article today focusing on some of the myths and misconceptions Mastodon users have spread over the last few years, with some critical analysis and debunking....
KDE Plasma 6 Megarelease - Beta 1 (kde.org)
A fifth of people watch porn during working day (www.independent.co.uk)
One in five of millions of people watch pornography during the working day, according to the UK’s media watchdog....
Why is the US ramping up production of plutonium ‘pits’ for nuclear weapons? (www.theguardian.com)
First look at the new Tribes game from Prophecy Games (fps-z.com)
Israelis brag about stealing from houses that they bombarded and ethnically cleansed their owners. (nitter.net)
The genocide is literally being streamed live, and people in the west continue to look the other way while western regimes keep fuelling it.
Are there any good Black Friday deals this year? (kbin.social)
Feel free to share links and talk about what's good about the deal
Sam Altman wins power struggle, returns to OpenAI with new board (arstechnica.com)
Meanwhile, some new details emerged about the days leading up to Altman’s firing. “In the weeks leading up to his shocking ouster from OpenAI, Sam Altman was actively working to raise billions from some of the world’s largest investors for a new chip venture,” Bloomberg reported. Altman reportedly was traveling in the...
Unions are the strongest in decades. Nearly a million Americans got double-digit raises as a result (www.cnn.com)
Nearly 900,000 Americans sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner this week will have unions – and the double-digit pay increases they won – to thank....
Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return (www.nytimes.com)
Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return::The announcement capped a tumultuous weekend for OpenAI, after Mr. Altman made a push to reclaim his job as C.E.O. of the artificial intelligence company.
The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart, Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will now take over as interim CEO (www.theverge.com)
In today’s OpenAI clown show news
World's richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report (www.france24.com)
Safety and Research were Sacrificed for Profit under Altman (www.theatlantic.com)
Article from The Atlantic, archive link: archive.ph/Vqjpr...
No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon (arstechnica.com)
A Florida restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its labor shortage (www.businessinsider.com)
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