Former Memphis police officer changes plea to guilty in Tyre Nichols beating death (www.nbcnews.com)
A second former Memphis police officer changed his plea to guilty on Friday in connection to alleged civil rights violations that ended in the beating death of Tyre Nichols....
Families can sue app developer for breaking its anti-bullying pledge, says court (www.theverge.com)
How To Add Vibration Motor Module To Your Meshtastic Node (adrelien.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.radio/post/4173929...
Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters' (www.zdnet.com)
A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. (www.ign.com)
Eating Meat Is Linked With Diabetes Risk, New Studies Suggest (www.nytimes.com)
Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” (arstechnica.com)
Peloton is introducing a $95 “used equipment activation fee” for bikes purchased from outside its official channels in the US and Canada, aiming to boost revenue and maintain onboarding quality for new subscribers....
Freed Israeli captive Noa Argamani says she was wounded by Israel, not Hamas (www.middleeasteye.net)
Noa Argamani, an Israeli woman freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza in June, said on Friday that her injuries were caused by an Israeli air strike during her rescue operation, not by a Hamas attack....
Ahead of speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says in a Pennsylvania court filing that he's endorsing Trump (apnews.com)
Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)
Labor board confirms Amazon drivers are employees, in finding hailed by union (arstechnica.com)
Huzzah!
US delivery workers swelter in record heat – many without AC in their vans (www.theguardian.com)
Amid rising temperatures last year, unionized UPS workers made heat an issue – but despite a key contract win, workers say little progress has been made...
Greasy Opal's CAPTCHA solver still serving cybercrime after 16 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
If $70 +$10/mo can get me through all those annoying CAPCHAs, I will gladly pay. Of course, if cheaper or even free solutions exists, I will use it. My only requirement is it work 90%+ of the time.
Republican states sue to end federal program for undocumented migrants (www.theguardian.com)
Biden program could give US citizenship through marriage to nearly half a million people without legal status...
DOJ sues software firm RealPage for allegedly helping landlords collude to keep rents high (www.cnbc.com)
The Department of Justice accused software company RealPage of unlawfully scheming to undermine competition among landlords and create a monopoly that harms millions of renters....
Comfy time (tiblur.com)
Daily reminder that cool new tech being released was made in a military lab first. (tiblur.com)
TikTok Cucumber Salad Trend Sets Off Shortage in Iceland Groceries (archive.today)
Kronan said cucumbers have sold out in stores across Iceland. The sales picked up so quickly that the store did not have time to prepare, said Gudrun Adalsteinsdottir, the company’s chief executive. “We are, just literally, eating it up,” joked Gudny Ljosba Hreinsdottir, 29, who runs Wake Up Reykjavik, an Icelandic tourism...
Modi tells Zelenskiy he is ready to work ‘as a friend’ to bring about peace deal (www.theguardian.com)
Adding 16 KB Page Size to Android (android-developers.googleblog.com)
Android 15 has been refactored to support using 16 KB page sizes, and file systems like EROFS and F2FS have been made compatible....