Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

German 'remigration' debate fuels push to ban far-right AfD (www.dw.com)

Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Reflective materials and irrigated trees: study shows how to cool one of the world’s hottest cities by 4.5°C (www.unsw.edu.au)

Pro-Israel Effort to Smear Penn President Started Well Before Oct. 7 (theintercept.com)

Samsung Galaxy S24, S24 Ultra promos highlight camera features. 7 years of updates and possible Galaxy AI subscriptions on the cards (www.notebookcheck.net)

Samsung might copy Google and increase update support to seven years starting with the Galaxy S24 series, according to reliable sources this weekend. Further promo images have also been leaked, advertising some camera and AI features, whereas the latter might cost extra down the road....

Oregon Supreme Court won’t remove Trump from ballot for now, says it’s waiting on SCOTUS (www.cnn.com)

The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a bid to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban,” saying it’s waiting for the US Supreme Court to rule on the issue....

Newly discovered cosmic megastructure challenges theories of the universe (www.theguardian.com)

A 1.3bn light year-sized ring discovered by PhD student in Lancashire appears to defy the cosmological principle assumption...

China’s Solar Dominance Faces New Rival: An Ultrathin Film (www.wsj.com)

As renewable energy becomes a geopolitical tool, Japan looks to recover its technological edge...

Tesla Boosts Pay for US Factory Workers That the UAW Wants to Unionize (www.bloomberg.com)

Tesla Inc. notified workers at its California car plant of pay increases across its US factories, the latest bump by a nonunion automaker the United Auto Workers is trying to organize

Children as young as 10 demanding anti-ageing products, say UK dermatologists (www.theguardian.com)

China's capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty. Data suggest the opposite (phys.org)

Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason (www.techspot.com)

Capcom is adding DRM to their old games, even singleplayer ones. This seems like an intentional move to prevent modding, but it also seems to decrease FPS and cause crashes. What the hell are they thinking?

China set to lose crown as top U.S. exporter after 17 years (asia.nikkei.com)

Mexico to take lead as 'friendshoring' brings in manufacturing

AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says (www.thehindu.com)

We basically just got a new Half-Life game, thanks to an enormous mod (www.pcgamesn.com)

Kremlin foe Navalny says he's been put in a punishment cell in an Arctic prison colony (www.seattletimes.com)

How I bought Steam Deck OLED ~25% cheaper from Steam (gearsrealm.com)

Just sharing my method on how I bought my Steam Deck OLED for 3/4 of the original price. I was skeptical when I read about it, but decided to try it and it took me a few good hours trying not to screw it up, but it worked out in the end. Maybe someone can benefit from it, but it has some risks.

Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search (beehaw.org)

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. With this context, Atuin gives you faster and better search of your shell history!...

2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin (www.theguardian.com)

2023 “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing “dramatic testimony” of how much warmer and more dangerous today’s climate is from the cooler one in which human civilisation developed....

US naval officer sentenced to two years in prison over spying for China (www.theguardian.com)

Woman in her 90s pulled alive from rubble 124 hours after Japan quake (www.cnn.com)

An elderly woman in her 90s has been rescued from under the rubble of a two-story house more than five days after a powerful earthquake struck Japan....

All Internet Access Blocked In Pakistan (english.alarabiya.net)

Internet and social media services in Pakistan faced severe disruptions on Sunday night as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, prepared for a massive online campaign ahead of elections. Khan and key PTI leaders were disqualified as candidates, alleging interference by the...