Is this a boondoggle or is it actually useful investment? (www.epa.gov)
It seems to me these giant grants to a small number of organizations (Climate United Fund, Coalition for Green Capital, Power Forward Communities) seems like it could be delivering pork to well-connected people. Is this actually going to produce “clean” energy and help disadvantaged people? These seem like very large awards...
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web (blog.codinghorror.com)
This is a screenshot from an NPR article discussing the rising use of ad blockers. The page is 12 megabytes in size in a stock web browser. The same article with basic ad blocking turned on is 1 megabyte.
Links and recommendations, please... (imgflip.com)
Minecraft will now require Java 21 and a 64Bit OS, as of 24w14a (www.minecraft.net)
Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift (www.eurogamer.net)
New York AG questions whether California company can handle Trump's $175M bond (abcnews.go.com)
Letitia James asked the firm to show it’s capable of paying the bond if needed....
UK quit Erasmus because of Brits’ poor language skills (www.politico.eu)
Britain turned down the offer to remain a member of the cultural exchange program after Brexit....
Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Sega Saturn memory card status: still in progress (lemmus.org)
As of now, my Sega Saturn will only read the broken memory cartridge I have at hand....
New Bill Could Pave the Way Toward Banning Student Debt Cancellation (truthout.org)
China tests US voter fault lines and ramps AI content to boost its geopolitical interests - Microsoft On the Issues (blogs.microsoft.com)
What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses (www.theatlantic.com)
New York Times cuts ties with Israeli reporter over alleged policy violation (www.ynetnews.com)
Schwartz liked a tweet by Walla journalist David Mizrahy Verthaim on October 7, which, according to the newspaper, constitutes a violation of company policy....
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election (prospect.org)
Can a Major Antitrust Case Rein in Apple? (jacobin.com)
Last month, the Justice Department charged tech giant Apple with serious antitrust violations related to the iPhone. It’s a relatively aggressive suit — but likely an inadequate response to Apple’s outsize power.
StoreDot’s EV battery cells achieve 2,000+ consecutive XFC cycles (electrek.co)
Mayor of Russia's Orenburg orders evacuations amid 'critical' flooding (www.reuters.com)
The Miseducation of Kara Swisher (thebaffler.com)
Silicon Valley was supposed to be “different,” or so veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher wanted to believe. Facebook was going to bring people together, in the process strengthening our communities, our democracies, our world; Google was going to deliver the vast stores of human knowledge to our fingertips; Tesla was going...
The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."
Desktop Linux Market Share: April 2024 (itsfoss.com)
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IDF: Efrat Katz was likely killed by IAF helicopter fire during abduction by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 (www.timesofisrael.com)
An IDF probe has determined that Efrat Katz, 68, was likely killed by Israeli Air Force helicopter fire while Hamas terrorists kidnapped the Kibbutz Nir Oz resident on October 7....