This week in KDE: real fake session restore (pointieststick.com)
Riker's Hometown Wants to Put a Perfectly Postured Statue Up in His Name (gizmodo.com)
Meta Staff Found Instagram Tool Enabled Child Exploitation. The Company Pressed Ahead Anyway. (www.wsj.com)
Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subscription accounts featuring minors. Meta took another approach and says its programs are well monitored.
Alabama Supreme Court chief justice spreads Christian nationalist rhetoric on QAnon conspiracy theorist's show (www.mediamatters.org)
Chief Justice Tom Parker’s recent concurring opinion in a case granting rights to embryos drew criticism for invoking religious language...
Americans are facing a record credit card debt crisis (www.businessinsider.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 official mod support is in the works, Larian says (www.destructoid.com)
Negative experiences like this kneecap people migrating to Lemmy. (www.reddit.com)
Google pauses Image Generation in Gemini (newshint.in)
Exclusive: Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles (www.reuters.com)
Bloomberg: War in Ukraine Is Turning in Putin’s Favor After Months of Stalemate (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Get Your Own Fediverse Trading Cards! (wedistribute.org)
An awesome new app just got released for free on itch.io, that lets Fedizens create their own MTG-style playing cards.
GMG’s Graphene Aluminium-Ion Battery Update: Minimal Temperature Rise Identified While Fast Charging (graphenemg.com)
Very interesting company. They started with a way to produce graphene at scale, then went looking for something to do with it. Their first idea was to use it as a cement additive. They have since used it as friction reducer in engine oil, and are selling it in Australia, Canada, and soon the US, as a radiator coating to improve...
Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Firefox 123 is out with broken site reporting tool (www.ghacks.net)
A new complete Fallout collection comes in a mini-nuke storage case (www.videogameschronicle.com)
if you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house... (slrpnk.net)
I got u, fam (slrpnk.net)
Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally (torrentfreak.com)
The U.K. and Japan have slumped into recession while the U.S. keeps defying gloomy expectations (fortune.com)
Growing protests call on Netanyahu to bring Hamas hostages home (www.washingtonpost.com)
On Friday, protesters fired flares in the air and demanded Netanyahu step down. Mounted police and trucks blocked their way. Demonstrators blame the prime minister for the security failures leading to the Hamas attack on Israeli communities on Oct. 7 — when authorities here say militants killed 1,200 people — as well his...
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation (www.cnbc.com)
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation::A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation heading into the 2024 elections.
Paramore Rejects Tennessee House Resolution On Band’s Grammy Wins After Singer/Songwriter Allison Russell Snub (deadline.com)
Texas ban on university diversity efforts provides a glimpse of the future across GOP-led states (apnews.com)
The dim lighting and vacant offices were the first clues....
Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork (arstechnica.com)
A core developer of Nginx, the popular web server, has quit the project and started a fork called freenginx....