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Adobe Promises That It Hasn’t Gone Full Big Brother (slate.com)

EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)

We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...

Trump Says Supreme Court Should Bail Him Out of Criminal Conviction (www.rollingstone.com)

The former president complained that his sentencing is set to take place days before the Republican National Convention...

17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web (www.tomshardware.com)

These are 17 of the worst, most cringeworthy Google AI overview answers:...

‘Swamp Creature!’: Trump Gets Shouted Down as He Begs for Libertarian Nomination (www.thedailybeast.com)

What is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?

ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet (gizmodo.com)

The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states (fortune.com)

What do you wear for work?

Syncthing saved my ass

Note for Americans: here WhatsApp is the de facto communication standard. Literally nobody uses SMS/iMessage/Facebook messenger/signal. And carriers still charge 2 euro for a MMS which completely kills iMessage/RCS (if accidentally send MMS, it’s expensive)...

Trustafarians: When the Rich Pretend to be Poor (www.youtube.com)

GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza. (www.thedailybeast.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15286303...

Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. (www.wsj.com)

Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices...

Cool distros to try

I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...

welp ... (lemmy.ml)

Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 (lemmy.world)

Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change (aftermath.site)

Sovcit argues with a cop, doesn't go well for sovcit. (lemmy.world)

[Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins?

Trying to keep my very picky eater 3yo healthy as we’re (hopefully) expanding his diet. Right now the only foods I can get him to actually eat are McDonald’s, a specific brand of yogurt, banana bread, some crackers and some bars. Refuses any beverage besides water. (He’s likely on the spectrum.)