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Announcing a new Search Engine for Lemmy (www.search-lemmy.com)

I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it’s officially up and running now: www.search-lemmy.com...

Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows (www.timesnownews.com)

This isn’t a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn’t log in....

How do Texas residents afford electricity during high-demand?

Whenever they have a spike in demand, the de-regulated prices go up by several hundred percent. Example

"Hey Google, Turn my balls off" (lemmy.world)

Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company (www.theverge.com)

The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (www.theverge.com)

Homeless woman was living inside Michigan rooftop store sign with computer, coffee maker (apnews.com)

Why are SMS messages so expensive?

Is there any reason, beyond corporate greed, for SMS messages to cost so much?...

Rotating banners on /r/piracy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Hey mates, recently I’ve developed a tool to use the GenerativeAI on the AI Horde to created random avatars and banners on lemmy. To keep things spicy, I wanted to deploy to rotate the /c/piracy banner daily, as I’ve done in a bunch of other communities like !stable_diffusion_art and the lemmy.dbzer0.com....

After 2-year-old girl shoots self, man becomes first person charged under Michigan's gun storage law (apnews.com)

A Michigan man whose 2-year-old daughter shot herself in the head with his revolver last week pleaded not guilty after becoming the first person charged under the state’s new law requiring safe storage of guns....

Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

It looks like !buildapc community isn’t super active so I apologize for posting here. Mods, let me know if I should post there instead....

My son uses Arch... How do I know? He tells me... Constantly... (lemmy.sdf.org)

Updated template. Had no idea on who the knucklehead from the original template was.

Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users (www.forbes.com)

Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft’s design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser....

Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (www.theguardian.com)

A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images of Taylor Swift on X, formerly Twitter, in recent days....

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....