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Nearly Half of EV Owners Would Switch Back to Combustion Engine Vehicles: Study (www.energyportal.eu)

this statistic does not account for Tesla loyalists, as three-quarters of Tesla owners indicated that they would continue with EVs....

Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink (www.wired.com)

“Netflix effect” is back as studios license old shows to competitors again (arstechnica.com)

Something weird going on at DuckDuck… (beehaw.org)

The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives? https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/17db21e0-7037-4d77-b3fd-fa7b958a3432.webp

This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters (pointieststick.com)

Reuters videographer killed in southern Lebanon [by Israeli strike], other journalists injured (www.politico.com)

The Associated Press reported that an Israeli shell landed among a group of international journalists killing the Reuters journalist and injuring six others.

Overview: How UEFI Secure Boot Works in Linux (tiffybelle.vivaldi.net)

Been down the rabbit hole lately of UEFI Secure Boot issues, and decided to write an overview of how it works out-of-the-box in the excellent Debian-based Linux Mint LMDE 6....

COSMIC lock screen will be customizable with themes (fosstodon.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/280126...

France wins suit over history-making shipwreck off US coast (news.yahoo.com)

Motorola just launched a new Android phone to take on the Pixel 8 (www-digitaltrends-com.cdn.ampproject.org)

Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X, formerly Twitter (www.cnbc.com)

A European regulator has issued Elon Musk a stern warning about the spread of illegal content and disinformation on X, formerly known as Twitter, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. Failure to comply with the European regulations around illegal content could result in fines worth 6% of a company’s annual revenue....

New Report Makes Disturbing Allegations Against The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Developer - IGN (www.ign.com)

Police be like (lemmy.zip)

Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans (nationalpost.com)

Business owner ‘hires’ ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans::Experts divided on whether a new wave of call centre automation will make for better jobs for people, or merely throw millions out of work

Elon Musk under investigation by US agency for $44bn takeover of Twitter (www.theguardian.com)

Schools Report Bomb Threats Following Libs of Tiktok Anti-LGBTQ Posts (www.vice.com)

At least eleven schools or school districts that were targeted by the account “Libs of TikTok” over anti-LGBTQ grooming conspiracies last month received bomb threats just days later....

SELinux and confined users, make the Linux Desktop more secure (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It. (www.nytimes.com)

They went to the best universities in China and in the West. They lived middle-class lives in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen and worked for technology companies at the center of China’s tech rivalry with the United States....

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)

Kansas police chief who led raid on small weekly newspaper has resigned, official says (apnews.com)

The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past....