Linux 6.8 TCP Performance Boosts By ~40% For Many Concurrent Connections (www.phoronix.com)
Discontent over immigration and the economy fuel Trump's Super Tuesday romp (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump is sailing into battle against President Joe Biden powered by anger over the two policy issues that have driven his comeback campaign so far: immigration and the economy....
The late Mojo Nixon had an appropriately amusing tour rider. (boingboing.net)
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Tesla Cybertruck crashes into iconic Beverly Hills Hotel sign (abc7.com)
Israel carries out biggest Ramallah raid in years, witnesses say (www.reuters.com)
Israeli forces swept into the Palestinians’ administrative capital of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank overnight, killing a 16-year-old in a refugee camp during their biggest raid into the city in years, Palestinian sources said on Monday....
Film Companies Seek 'Torrenting History' Related to Redditor * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
I didn’t know reddit gave out the personal details of their users, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Anon is no angle (sh.itjust.works)
>be me...
Georgia Senate passes bill banning American Library Association from state libraries (www.advocate.com)
Israeli Attacks Continue Unabated After Gaza Food Aid Massacre, 4 More Children Starve to Death (www.democracynow.org)
Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46 (www.phoronix.com)
Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit::Judge to X lawyer: “I’m trying to figure out in my mind how that’s possibly true."
Phone Push Notifications: A Double-Edged Sword for User Privacy and Law Enforcement (www.theregister.com)
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5 years later Valve finally gives Windows compatibility tool Proton a logo (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Amazon to spend $1 billion on startups that combine AI with robots (arstechnica.com)
Amazon’s $1 billion industrial innovation fund is to step up investments in companies that combine artificial intelligence and robotics, as the ecommerce giant seeks to drive efficiencies across its logistics network....
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent (www.bbc.com)
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to OpenAI to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to OpenAI to Train AI Tools::Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users’ data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.
At least you can patch bong rips... (slrpnk.net)
West Virginia Senate passes bill that would remove marital exemption for sexual abuse (www.wandtv.com)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Married people in West Virginia could be charged with certain acts of sexual abuse against their spouses for the first time under a bill passed by the state Senate. The bill pushed by former prosecuting attorney Republican Sen. Ryan Weld would remove marriage as a defense to first- and third-degree...
BP exec's husband guilty of insider trading $1.8 million, snooped on her calls (www.cnbc.com)
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Piracy Shield Cloudflare Disaster Blocks Countless Sites, Fires Up Opposition (torrentfreak.com)
MIT Researcher Creates Mind-Controlled Internet Search Headset (www.unilad.com)
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No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on (www.cnn.com)
You’d be forgiven for thinking the American market for EVs is collapsing. But in the last quarter of 2023, EV sales were up 40% from the same quarter a year before, according to Cox Automotive. In fact, EV sales in the United States hit a record last year, topping 1 million for the first time....
Mexico City may be just months away from running of out water (www.cnn.com)
Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days....