AI layoffs (sopuli.xyz)
German parliament will stop using fax machines (www.npr.org)
Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest (www.theregister.com)
Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict (www.cnbc.com)
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‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
TIL the US government once banned sliced bread (www.mentalfloss.com)
Mike Johnson flies same Christian nationalist flag outside his office that Samuel Alito flew at vacation home (www.advocate.com)
American couple doing missionary work killed by gangs in Haiti, wife is daughter of Missouri rep. (www.nbcnews.com)
Colorado governor to sign bills regulating funeral homes after discovery of 190 rotting bodies (apnews.com)
Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.extremetech.com)
GOP tries to 'correct the narrative' on use of mailed ballots after years of conflicting messages (apnews.com)
NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code (mastodon.sdf.org)
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD’s licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD....
Jan. 6 Situation Room Officer Reveals Trump Fans ‘Came That Close’ To Murdering VP In Stunning New Interview (www.mediaite.com)
Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....
Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...
OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12631640...
Parishioners Report Priest for Saying Jesus Died With Erection (www.thedailybeast.com)
Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve (lemm.ee)
TIL that a Frenchman ate a plane (en.m.wikipedia.org)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/31e7c2b9-3af8-49c2-9483-d0eba629c56e.jpeg
Barron Trump backs out of RNC: Melania's team blames "prior commitments" (www.salon.com)
After the Trump campaign confirmed soon-to-be-graduate Barron Trump’s role as an RNC delegate, and his dad awkwardly forgot his age while reacting to the news, he’s turning down the role, according to his mom....
New bill aims to limit harmful heavy metals found in baby food (www.cnn.com)
Valve launches Proton 9.0 with improved game compatibility and more - KitGuru (www.kitguru.net)
Denuvo Outage Makes Hit Single-Player Game Unplayable [Persona 5] (gamerant.com)
RFK Jr. Lands Coveted Kevin Spacey Endorsement (www.rollingstone.com)
The Kremlin announces nuclear weapons drills on Putin's orders (www.euronews.com)
The move comes after an acrimonious exchange with senior Western officials, labelled by Moscow as ‘provocative threats’....
