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

Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad (www.theverge.com)

Kim Kardashian’s next trick? A bra to make you look turned on by absolutely everything (www.theguardian.com)

Highlights: The new bra in Kim Kardashian’s lingerie range, with its “daring” raised nipple detail, goes on sale on Halloween, but not, I think, because the effect she’s going for is “scary”. The sales pitch is “No matter how hot it is, you will always look cold”, but I’m not sure “cold” is the look she’s...

"Do Not Track" is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn (www.vzbv.de)

“Do Not Track” is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn::Landgericht Berlin gibt Klage des vzbv gegen die LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company weitgehend statt

Trump, who once appeared to defend January 6 threats against Pence, calls on his former VP to endorse him (edition.cnn.com)

“Because I had a great successful presidency, and he was the vice president, he should endorse me,” said Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nod. “I chose him, made him vice president. But … people in politics can be very disloyal. I’ve never seen anything like it.”...

States sue Meta for harming young people's mental health, collecting data on children (apnews.com)

Russia has likely suffered up to 480,000 soldiers killed or wounded in the war against Ukraine, says UK Ministry of Defence (www.yahoo.com)

Woman returns from vacation to find Atlanta home demolished (apnews.com)

A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta.

Former chemical engineer in the coal industry, urging B.C. municipalities to change the term natural gas to "fossil gas" (www.cbc.ca)

“The term natural gas does not explicitly convey the fossil origins of such gas, leading to potential misunderstandings and hampering policy-making,”

Top Hollywood actors offer $150 million to help end strike (www.reuters.com)

Their offer, confirmed by Clooney’s spokesperson on Thursday, would provide the union an extra $150 million over three years and could help fund improved health benefits....

Fugees rapper says lawyer's use of AI helped tank his case, pushes for new trial (www.aol.com)

A multimillion-dollar conspiracy trial that stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment is now touching on the tech world with arguments that a defense attorney for a Fugees rapper bungled closing arguments by using an artificial intelligence program.

What's the most surprising thing when you look up your username in SteamDB? (steamdb.info)

https://steamdb.info/calculator/

X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet (fortune.com)

archive.org...

White House weighs $100 billion for Israel, Ukraine bill; plans in flux (www.washingtonpost.com)

Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game (www.gamesradar.com)

Something Wicked Games snatches another veteran for their horror-RPG

Hamas Gives a Shout-Out to Vladimir Putin (www.thedailybeast.com)

Firefish Mastodon alternative (joinfirefish.org)

I found Firefish which is a better alternative to the standard Mastodon application. It’s compatible with Mastodon and has better features. It allows users to create web pages and the character limit is 3,000 instead of the 500 on Mastodon. It feels like a good limit for the type of site that it is. Plus this means that it can...

Israel Gaza live news: Children among dead after strike hits Palestinian convoy - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

BBC Verify has confirmed women and young children were killed when a strike hit their vehicles as they headed away from northern Gaza...

Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact (theconversation.com)

Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California’s new climate laws – that will have a global impact::California is the world’s fifth-largest economy. Laws tested there often spread across the U.S. and around the world.

Sam Bankman-Fried thought there was a 5% chance he would be president, Caroline Ellison testified in his trial (www.businessinsider.com)

Sam Bankman-Fried thought there was a 5% chance he would be president, Caroline Ellison testified in his trial::Sam Bankman-Fried told Caroline Ellison that he could one day be the US president, she testified on Tuesday.

Coal industry faces 1 million job losses from global energy transition - research (www.reuters.com)

I wonder how/if the states of these workers will reemploy them

Gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia broken, Russia is the likely culprit (yle.fi)

According to a government press release on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities have located the damaged point in the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline. In addition, there is damage to the communication cable between the countries....

Germany to Bring Back Coal-Fired Power Plants (www.ntd.com)

Live your best life Germany, don’t let the haters tell you otherwise

Western leaders accused of hypocrisy over response to Palestine, Ukraine (www.aljazeera.com)

After Saturday’s surprise attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Israel, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to the social media platform X to offer “condolences go out to everyone who lost relatives or close ones in the terrorist attack”....