Haikun: Taiwan unveils new submarine to fend off China (www.bbc.com)
Taiwan has unveiled its first domestically-made submarine as it bolsters its defences against a possible Chinese attack....
New Orleans officials seek to build a freshwater pipeline as saltwater wedge inches closer (www.cnn.com)
Water barges and salt-filtering reverse osmosis units will not be enough to prevent saltwater from contaminating New Orleans’ largest water facility, officials said at city council meeting on Wednesday. Instead, a pipeline will be needed to deliver freshwater from upstream — not just for New Orleans, but likely for...
Introducing GNOME 45 – The GNOME Foundation (foundation.gnome.org)
FCC announces plans to resurrect net neutrality rules. (www.theverge.com)
FCC announces plans to resurrect net neutrality rules.::The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information.
FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality (techcrunch.com)
FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality::After a long battle and eventual defeat, the FCC is set to reinstate rules that broadband providers must treat all internet traffic equally.
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
Senate leaders reach deal on short-term spending bill in push to avert shutdown (www.cnn.com)
With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House....
Creating a centralized podcast destination on YouTube Music (blog.youtube)
US offers Poland rare loan of $2 billion to modernize its military (apnews.com)
How to Hide a $2 Trillion (Google) Antitrust Trial (www.thebignewsletter.com)
We did an analysis of the Google antitrust trial. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy.
18 dollar Cocktail (i.imgur.com)
T-Mobile users say other people’s account information is appearing in their app (www.theverge.com)
Matrix 2.0: Radically faster client, OAuth logins and native video calls (matrix.org)
Back at FOSDEM we announced the idea of Matrix 2.0 - a series of huge step changes in terms of Matrix’s usability and performance, made up of Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC(industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins...
MAGA rages over report Pentagon exempting Ukraine from government shutdown (www.newsweek.com)
Uh oh! (lemmy.world)
Black Lives Matter Protests Led To 11.5% Increase In Murders, Thousands Of Additional Deaths, Study Shows (dailycaller.com)
As Ozempic use grows, so do reports of possible mental health side effects (www.npr.org)
Nearly three months into taking Ozempic for diabetes, Jenny Kent had already lost 12 pounds, and her blood sugar numbers were looking better than they had in a while....
China accuses U.S. of hacking Huawei servers since 2009 (asia.nikkei.com)
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A poem from high school about my dislike of Windows 11 (sh.itjust.works)
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/55719bf4-8ad1-4c54-b6de-14b9812caa49.webp...
Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Worst Contact" (www.startrek.com)
Here’s the direct YouTube link, though the latest issue of the accompanying comic can only be found on the official website.
It's a problem (lemmy.zip)
Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut as maintainence remains under strain (www.zdnet.com)
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a new controller (www.theverge.com)
Mid-gen Xbox roadmap hardware leak. Series S|X refreshes (digital Series X refresh at $499), controller with haptics and quieter buttons at $69.99. (www.resetera.com)
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