Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings (www.cnbc.com)
At an all-hands meeting last week, Google executives responded to employee questions about declining morale even with financial performance improving.
Ukraine parliament passes bill for prisoners to join army (www.aljazeera.com)
The move on Wednesday marks a U-turn in Ukraine’s approach on the matter. Kyiv had long opposed the measure and had repeatedly criticised Moscow for mobilising prisoners to fill its ranks....
Impact of insufficient sleep on total daily energy expenditure, food intake, and weight gain (www.pnas.org)
Comparison of privacy and/or security focused Android ROMs versus "Stock" Android (eylenburg.github.io)
I stumbled across this today and thought it was worth sharing. I have used every one of these ROMs except /e/ and they are all good projects in their own right.
54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances (www.cnbc.com)
Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’ (www.theguardian.com)
CNN's Burnett asks Biden how he is going to turn the economy around. He said he already has. (www.cnn.com)
An Interview With Jack Dorsey (www.piratewires.com)
Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next. (www.propublica.org)
ProPublica has found the NYPD site for allowing the public to track officers’ misconduct is shockingly unreliable. Cases against officers frequently vanish from the site for days — sometimes weeks — at a time. The issue affects nearly all of the officers in the database, with discipline disappearing from the profiles of...
Is China using Hungary as its bridgehead in Europe? (www.euronews.com)
The primary purpose of Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Hungary might be to ensure that Hungary can help China gain market share in the EU, as Beijing and Budapest prepare to sign a total of 16 bilateral agreements....
chamber music (lemmy.cafe)
Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill (www.techdirt.com)
OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn (www.wired.com)
Boeing supplier regularly shipped parts with defects, whistleblower alleges (www.theguardian.com)
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio (www.theverge.com)
'Neom' project: Forces in Saudi Arabia 'told to kill' to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, ex-intelligence officer says (www.bbc.com)
Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project....
Arrowhead CEO admits: Helldivers 2's balancing isn't what it should be (www.destructoid.com)
FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole (arstechnica.com)
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking (arstechnica.com)
Surely the clearest path to retaining only the best.
Boeing 737 crashes during take-off in Senegal (www.bbc.com)
'Indomitable' Gaza Journalist Bisan Owda Awarded Peabody for War Coverage (www.commondreams.org)
Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 (twistedvoxel.com)
We've almost reached the end of the 1st half of 2024, and Xbox has had more studio closures than first party game releases in the year so far.
Republican clerk charged in Michigan voting-system breach (www.reuters.com)
A Michigan township clerk was charged with multiple felonies on Wednesday, the latest turn in a state inquiry into efforts by Donald Trump supporters to tamper with voting machines to prove his false claim that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud....
Florida deputies who fatally shot US airman burst into wrong apartment, attorney says (apnews.com)
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday....
