Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes. (www.nytimes.com)
If you're thinking about something and reach a conclusion that's super outside the mainstream, you could be right, but also could mean you should reinspect your assumptions.
I saw a post on lemmy about how we could prevent 133 holocausts by promoting animal rights and veganism. The article opened by doing some math about how many dogs you could torture and kill in order to be equivalent to taking a human life, and then how many animals humans kill, and concluded that we’re committing holocaust...
Framework Laptop 16, six months later (www.theverge.com)
Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29 (www.theguardian.com)
Western journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state’s crackdown on the media ahead of crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year....
Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws (www.eff.org)
We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data breaches, potentially exposing not only personal data like users’ government-issued ID, but also information about the sites...
Custom Linux Distribution just for Gaming (bazzite.gg)
Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris pre-installed, HDR support, BORE CPU scheduler for smooth and responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools for your gaming needs.
View from Green's windmill, Nottingham, UK (lemmy.world)
My planed/current HarvesterHCI setup!
Hello everyone! I have been lurking here on c/selfhost for a while now and wanted to share my experience with my setup. Here is my setup:...
Flying cars they said
This is a genuine first hand experience to DHL’s shoddy AI virtual assistant
The Boeing saga has reached a new level of absurdity | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Boeing admitted that a missing work order led to a door plug blowing off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max in January....
We analyzed 54,177 collection pages on OpenSea and found that 76% of the top pages are spam (guerrillabuzz.com)
Just closed his eyes and waited (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network (www.theguardian.com)
A prime mover behind the Shirion Collective, a conspiracy-minded, pro-Israel disinformation network seeking to shape public opinion about the Gaza conflict in the US, Australia and the UK, is a tech entrepreneur named Daniel Linden living in Florida who co-wrote a guidebook for OnlyFans users, the Guardian can reveal....
Vancouver Aquarium rescues weeks-old sea otter (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24113865
Bolivia: coup attempt collapses, top general arrested (countervortex.org)
What are you doing this weekend? (i.ibb.co)
The US has sent at least 14,000 of its massive, highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs to Israel since October 7, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
trending on facebook (lemmy.world)
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Bluegrass Train Bridge (OC) (lemmy.world)
Wild Turkey Distillery in the distance.
France Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis (www.thedailybeast.com)
like a junkie cosmonaut (lemmy.world)
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....