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Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1,000 appetite suppressant can be made for just $5 (fortune.com)

Behind the Baltimore bridge collapse is a familiar story of a corporation cutting corners (www.salon.com)

Why Is the DOJ Prosecuting a Journalist While Pretending Otherwise? (slate.com)

When President Joe Biden said “journalism is not a crime” last April, federal prosecutors in Tampa, Florida, apparently took that as a challenge. Not a crime yet....

F.B.I. Tells Passengers on Alaska Flight They May Have Been Crime Victims (www.nytimes.com)

Passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines plane that made an emergency landing after a fuselage panel blew off this year have started to receive letters from the F.B.I. identifying them as possible victims of a crime....

Android 15 is pulling the plug on apps built for Android Marshmallow (www.androidpolice.com)

Windows Notepad’s midlife renaissance continues with spellcheck and autocorrect (arstechnica.com)

Now Windows' only built-in text editor, there's more room for Notepad to grow.

E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13401615...

Supreme Court rejects appeal by former New Mexico county commissioner banned for Jan. 6 insurrection (apnews.com)

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was kicked out of office over his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol....

"Women of Distinction" award named for Ruth Bader Ginsberg goes to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Stallone (www.wonkette.com)

What in the name of all the Earth and its domains and the heavens above is this asshattery?...

Fatah slams Hamas: Responsible for the current ‘Nakba’ (www.jpost.com)

The Star Trek Universe Beams into WonderCon 2024 (www.startrek.com)

China plans to build a giant rail gun to launch hypersonic planes into space (www.scmp.com)

It's kinda wild that zombo.com still exists (www.zombo.com)

zombo.com was launched in 1999. I remember in high school you’d see the new fancy web kiosk’s the school put up just displaying it as a joke. and being locked out of the address bar so you couldn’t change it. The fact that this url has been renewed, maintained, and updated with all the advancements web browsers have made...

‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)

Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of...

Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat (www.wired.com)

The men who stare at credibility (media.kbin.social)

GitHub - omegaui/linux-voice-control: Your personal, fully customization, Linux Voice Control Assistant. (github.com)

Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees (80.lv)

According to a recent tweet shared by AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, the alleged theft occurred last Saturday. It is claimed that employees from Stability AI infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole all prompt and image pairs, an action that also caused a 24-hour outage. In response, MJ reportedly banned all Stable...

AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead (developers.slashdot.org)

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Google demands that Naked Capitalism censors their content. What could possibly go wrong with megacorps acting as arbitrary censors of content without any accountability. (www.nakedcapitalism.com)