kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election (www.axios.com)

Lithium metal battery with over 500 Wh/kg developed (www.notebookcheck.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17926125

A Wedding Puts India’s Gilded Age on Lavish Display (www.nytimes.com)

The US Air Force has been sending unmarked planes from Britain’s base on Cyprus to Israel since it began bombing Gaza (www.declassifieduk.org)

White House Dings Tommy Tuberville for Boasting on Funding He Voted Against (www.thedailybeast.com)

Monthly US consumer prices post first drop in four years as inflation subsides (www.reuters.com)

GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director | Holly Million stepping down after 10 months (foundation.gnome.org)

GNOME announced an interim director of Richard Littauer, who joined last week....

Classic Marathon 2 free on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

Richard Simmons, a fitness guru who mixed laughs and sweat, dies at 76 (apnews.com)

Fitness guru Richard Simmons has died. Publicist Tom Estey tells The Associated Press that Simmons died Friday at his home in Los Angeles on Saturday, a day after his 76th birthday.

Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs (www.theverge.com)

IOC and Saudi Arabia agree on 12-year deal for video gaming Esports Olympics (apnews.com)

'Microsoft killed my online life,' Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza (www.windowscentral.com)

A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

How I manage my KDE email (pointieststick.com)

Interesting workflow....

The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (as well as training any kind of AI on copyrighted content) (www.theverge.com)

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new bill to make it easier to authenticate and detect artificial intelligence-generated content and protect journalists and artists from having their work gobbled up by AI models without their permission....

Changing of the guard ceremonies at Chiang’s memorial hall to be relocated - Taipei Times (www.taipeitimes.com)

Honor guards are to stop performing changing of the guard ceremonies around a statue of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) to avoid “worshiping authoritarianism,” the Ministry of Culture said yesterday....

TIL: There was an animated tv show based on the children's book series Busytown called The Busy World of Richard Scarry (en.wikipedia.org)

Busytown

Android 15 beta has an optional desktop mode (www.theregister.com)

Rosa Luxemburg recommendation (www.marxists.org)

If you had to recommend only one piece from the linked library, what would it be and why? I keep seeing (really good) Rosa Luxemburg quotes but I have never read her.

"No Eminent Domain for Corporate Gain!" Farming families challenging AI/datacenters' fossil fuel power diversion project. (www.baltimoresun.com)

Rural and suburban families from Baltimore, Frederick, and Carroll Counties waited in a line extending down the road to enter a gathering hall at a local senior center, where a company named “Public Service Enterprise Group” held a community information session regarding the “Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project.” Some...