MacKenzie Scott donates $640M -- more than double her initial plan -- to nonprofits (abcnews.go.com)
Billionaire philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott announced Tuesday she is giving $640 million to 361 small nonprofits that responded to an open call for applications....
Evergrande: China property giant and its founder accused of $78bn fraud (www.bbc.com)
Alpha Male v0.00003 (thumbsnap.com)
OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it::The man behind ChatGPT is wooing the UAE to invest in energy-hungry AI. But if it turns out his tech can’t fix the world, he’s got his escape plan
How do you tell the difference between dream and reality?
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling. (www.vice.com)
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.::After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.
Top comment gets to choose my hostname
After nuking my old install, I am in need of a hostname. Top comment chooses it.
Over 7,000 students see their lunch debts wiped after $1 million donation (www.goodmorningamerica.com)
Over 7,000 students in Georgia with unpaid lunch balances are getting a helping hand following a $1 million initiative from the Arby’s Foundation, the nonprofit announced Thursday.
What are your "controversial" opinions that go against popular opinions in the UK?
I’ll start: Greggs is massively overrated. I genuinely don’t understand how people hype it....
A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine (www.vice.com)
A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine::Researchers warn that most of the text we view online has been poorly translated into one or more languages—usually by a machine.
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse (www.theregister.com)
Now that it is getting legalized everywhere, Cannabis should fall under the jurisdiction of the ATF rather than the DEA.
And when they perform raids, they should be required to shout “This is a F.A.C.T. jack”! Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA (arstechnica.com)
Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews industry safety debate (gazette.com)
The cockpit voice recorder data on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet which lost a panel mid-flight on Friday was overwritten, U.S. authorities said, renewing attention on an industry call for longer in-flight recordings....
This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom (techcrunch.com)
Electric Cars Are Pushing the Age of Oil to Extinction in China (www.bloomberg.com)
Pasta (lemmy.world)
Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)
apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...
Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation (appleinsider.com)
Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation::Adobe could face hefty fines related to its overly difficult and costly subscription cancellation practices due to an ongoing Federal Trade Commission Probe.
Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?
Does anyone have any experience with self-cleaning cat litter boxes? I’m curious if any particular model of self-cleaning litter box is any good. We now have 4 cats and it would be nice to not have to clean litter boxes manually 1-2 times every day....
You can't win the lottery (lemmy.zip)
There's no money for education and health care but they'll always find some for war. (lemmy.world)
Most school shootings aren’t mass killings, study finds, and they’re often driven by community violence (www.cnn.com)
Many Americans think of school shootings as mass casualty events involving an adolescent with an assault-style weapon. But a new study says that most recent school shootings orchestrated by teenagers do not fit that image — and they are often related to community violence....
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files (www.theregister.com)
UPDATED Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some netizens on the goliath’s support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished....
