China is building its military on a 'scale not seen since WWII' and is on track to be able to invade Taiwan by 2027: US admiral (www.businessinsider.com)
US Adm. John Aquilino said China’s military is building up at a rate not seen since World War II....
Finland ranked world's happiest country for seventh year (www.dw.com)
The annual World Happiness Report has again ranked Finland and other Scandinavian countries the most cheerful nations on Earth. Costa Rica and Kuwait entered the top 20 in place of the United States and Germany....
Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour (gizmodo.com)
Sons of Star Trek #1 on sale now! (i.imgur.com)
Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)
An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.
Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 (www.pcgamer.com)
Interesting. Samsung making a bold move here, but one that could make sense.
Over 30 (lemmy.world)
France makes abortion a constitutional right (www.bbc.com)
What are your favorite albums from the 2020s?
I’ve always held the belief that music wasn’t better in the past, people just have survivorship bias. What are your genuine favorite albums of the last few years?...
YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions (www.businessinsider.com)
YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google’s refusal to negotiate with the union.
HP is in the rent-a-printer business now (www.theverge.com)
Friends don’t let their friends buy HP.
Why do US teachers have to ask parents to bring basic school supplies?
I’ve also seen US teachers spending hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets to stock classrooms....
‘Horrific massacre’: Deadly Israeli fire at Palestinians waiting for aid (www.aljazeera.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12546096...
White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)
White House urges developers to dump C and C++::Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.
My experience using Fedora Atomic (Budgie) for a month or two. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I would just like to preface this. This is the first blog post I’ve ever written, so please please please give me feedback if you can. I also didn’t intend on it being here on Lemmy, but Hugo is quite a complex tool that’ll take some time for me to understand. Webdev is not my cup of tea....
Machines don't know their place (lemmy.world)
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price (gizmodo.com)
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price::In its IPO documents, Reddit said the price and volume of its stock could “experience extreme volatility for reasons unrelated to our underlying business.”
US admiral says the fight against the Houthis in the Red Sea is the largest battle the Navy's fought since World War Ii (www.businessinsider.com)
Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Reports were saying the Switch was coming q4 2024, but now Nintendo is reportedly telling its partners that it’s been pushed to q1 2025
Despair in Russia as Putin Spirals Out of Control (www.thedailybeast.com)
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman informed Russians this week that the “special military operation” that Putin launched in Ukraine in February 2022 was set to go on much longer because it is now “a war against the collective West.”...
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (techcrunch.com)
Mozilla Announces Layoffs, Renews Focus on Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Taylor Swift on her way to her plane (lemmy.world)
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion (lemmy.world)
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...