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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)

Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....

Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12971023...

OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles (www.theverge.com)

OpenAI has publicly responded to a copyright lawsuit by The New York Times, calling the case “without merit” and saying it still hoped for a partnership with the media outlet....

What games can you not get into because they feel too outdated?

Are there games that you tried but just couldn’t get into because they feel outdated? Games that, in theory, you would enjoy, but don’t because the controls, graphics, writing, or mechanics just don’t feel good anymore. Games that, compared to today, just don’t hold up to your standards....

Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded (techxplore.com)

British tourist sentenced to three months in Dubai jail for ‘insulting’ airport staff (www.independent.co.uk)

A UK citizen has been sentenced to three months in jail in Dubai after “insulting” airport staff who were slow to bring his mother a wheelchair....

Biden administration forgives $4.8 bln in student debt (www.reuters.com)

“This brings the total debt cancellation my administration has approved to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans through various actions,” Biden said in a statement.

Biden ‘not sure he’d be running’ in 2024 if Trump wasn’t: ‘We cannot let him win’ (www.theguardian.com)

Israel orders Gazans to flee, bombs where it sends them (www.reuters.com)

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Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash (www.techdirt.com)

What are you looking forward to in 2024?

turbines (mediacdn.aus.social)

2% of kids and 7% of adults have gotten the new COVID shots, US data show (apnews.com)

A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot....

The neverending discussion about pasta, olive oil and just putting enough water... 10g salt, 100g pasta, at least 1L water e basta così ! No oil or you ruin the pasta/sauce synergy. 😃 (lemmings.world)

Europeans over 65 will outnumber those under 15 next year (www.irishexaminer.com)

Americans, how would you feel about making student loans completely illegal?

This would save young Americans from going into crippling debt, but it would also make a university degree completely unaffordable for most. However, in the age of the Internet, that doesn’t mean they couldn’t get an education....

Hamas blindsides Israel with most serious attack in a generation (www.bbc.com)

Israel was taken by surprise by the most ambitious operation Hamas has ever launched from Gaza....

Accurate. (lemmy.ml)

Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages (www.theverge.com)

A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.

Jim "Scumbag" Farley (lemmy.ml)

Hyprland is a toxic community (drewdevault.com)

Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful graphics and animations, each configuration tailored to the unique...