North Korean athletes undergoing ‘ideological evaluation’ for Olympic selfie (www.telegraph.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/40456691...
Philippines accuses Beijing of ‘dangerously’ firing flares near its aircraft in South China Sea (www.theguardian.com)
Manila alleges ‘harassment’ in past week, including deploying flares just 15 metres away from its aircraft in latest confrontation on strategic waterway
TIL that Duangphet Phromthep, the Captain of the Wild Boars Thai football team who were rescued from a flooded cave in 2018, took his own life in 2023 (en.wikipedia.org)
Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets (gizmodo.com)
Real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image (github.com)
n criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime at some time in the future (en.wikipedia.org)
Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel (arstechnica.com)
TIL about The Unnaturals, a sketch comedy show on the former Ha! network starring Paul Feig, Tim Blake Nelson and Paul Zaloom (Beakman from Beakman's World) (www.imdb.com)
When Ha! merged with The Comedy Channel to become Comedy Central, the show continued, but without those three and with Dennis Leary. That’s the only video I could find on YouTube, a half-episode of that season....
Some sus german engineers, 5 secs after rearmament (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth (www.discovermagazine.com)
Android malware steals payment card data using previously unseen technique (arstechnica.com)
Attacker then emulates the card and makes withdrawals or payments from victim’s account.
Boeing 737 Max: Electrical problems hidden, say campaigners (www.bbc.com)
A US campaign group has accused Boeing of concealing information about electrical problems on a plane that later crashed....
Felony charges dismissed against ex-officers charged in Breonna Taylor raid (www.newsweek.com)
Programming Fonts - Test drive all the programming fonts (www.programmingfonts.org)
(I have now spent more time scrolling through fonts than I have on the new system that the final choice will be used on … )
Why the 7 worlds of TRAPPIST-1 waltz in peculiar patterns (www.space.com)
Don’t recall TRAPPIST-1 mentioned in any news but seems much effort has gone into studying this fly-speck.
Lapid: Netanyahu was briefed on dangers ahead of Oct. 7, ignored ‘all red flags,’ must go (www.timesofisrael.com)
Hawkwind - Silver Machine (archive.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18337166...
Autism and Brain Growth Patterns Unraveled by Yale Scientists (scitechdaily.com)
By using brain organoids derived from autistic children’s stem cells, researchers uncovered distinct neural growth patterns, potentially guiding personalized treatments and diagnoses.
A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. (www.ign.com)
Weirdest gaming story I’ve heard this year
TikTok blamed for hit to Iceland cucumber supply (www.bbc.com)
Hundreds of Brits used website to look for ‘suicide partner’ (www.bbc.com)
More than 700 people in the UK have posted on a pro-suicide website looking for someone to die with, a BBC investigation has found....
Gravity changes may disrupt sleep more than we realize (www.psypost.org)
A recent study examining the sleep patterns of healthy men and women who participated in a parabolic flight—an experience that exposes individuals to brief periods of microgravity and hypergravity—revealed surprising results. According to actigraphy, a method used to objectively measure sleep by tracking movement,...
ACE Goes After Fmovies Sister Site 'Successors'. (torrentfreak.com)
Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters' (www.zdnet.com)
In a wide-ranging conversation with Verizon open-source officer Dirk Hohndel, ‘plodding engineer’ Linus Torvalds discussed where Linux is today and where it may go tomorrow....
