S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 trailer (yt.artemislena.eu)
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This is the “world’s first” phone call made using spatial audio (www.theverge.com)
Star Trek: Discovery The Final Season Arrives August 27 on DVD, Blu-ray, and Limited Edition Steelbook (www.startrek.com)
Star Trek: Discovery: The Complete Series will also be available on August 27 on Blu-ray and DVD, featuring all 65 episodes and over 15 hours of special features including a BONUS DISC that takes you on a never-before-seen journey through all five seasons with the cast and crew.
Connecting Hobby Project to LLM (hijacked.link)
I love playing with LLMs locally at home. The cost of running hobby projects against paid services like OpenAI is too high for me so in this article you can find out how I work around that to keep my LLM infra deployed locally at home and still use it anywhere I like.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges from a brand you've probably never heard of — Schenker Tuxedo has 12-core CPU with 32GB RAM and surprise, surprise, Debian (www.techradar.com)
Curbing the Karens: Florida reins in over-mighty homeowners’ groups (www.theguardian.com)
The state’s homeowners’ associations (HOAs) are notorious for petty bureaucracy – including threats of eviction for the wrong kind of dog or decorative garage door hinges...
Post-Brexit ‘mess’ as Italian driver’s lorry held for 55 hours at UK border post (www.theguardian.com)
An Italian lorry driver has described the UK’s new post-Brexit controls as a “mess” after his lorry was held at a government-run border post for more than two days....
100,000 form “red line” around White House to protest US support of Israel (peoplesdispatch.org)
Biden admin has discussed potentially negotiating unilateral deal with Hamas to free U.S. hostages (www.nbcnews.com)
Millionaire investment banker slugs woman on NYC street during Brooklyn Pride, shocking video shows (nypost.com)
A millionaire investment banker allegedly slugged a woman in the face, sending her crashing down onto a Brooklyn street Saturday night....
Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16374600...
What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters (www.msn.com)
So to recap the events of a couple of weeks ago:...
U.S. may never know how many died in hostage rescue operation: Sullivan (www.axios.com)
Who Is Jessyka Janshel? James Harden's Reaction To Girlfriend Catching Wedding Bouquet Goes Viral (startrek.website)
James Harden went viral for his off-court reaction for once when he saw his girlfriend catch a wedding bouquet, but who is Jessyka Janshel and what do we know about the partner of the Los Angeles Clippers’ star?
How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed at least 274 Palestinians in Gaza (www.msn.com)
A migrant family is undeterred by Biden’s push to restrict asylum (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/biden-immigration-asylum-policy…
Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Addresses Studio Closures (www.ign.com)
“The closure of any team is hard obviously on the individuals there, hard on the team,” Spencer said. "I haven’t been talking publicly about this, because right now is the time for us to focus on the team and the individuals. It’s obviously a decision that’s very hard on them, and I want to make sure through severance...
Who is Jonathan Kaye? Millionaire investment banker slugs woman on NYC street during Brooklyn Pride, shocking video shows (lemmings.world)
Jonathan Kaye, 52, was recorded throwing a vicious overhand right at the unnamed woman in Brooklyn on Saturday evening. The woman is seen being thrown to the floor by the force of the punch. It is unclear what sparked the confrontation.
Migrants are rattled and unsure as US deportations begin under new rule halting asylum (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/migrants-biden-deportation-asyl…
A law to protect Washington health care workers keeps patients in crisis (www.seattletimes.com)
Under Washington state law, any assault on a health care worker can be a felony — including spitting, slapping or other actions that might otherwise be treated as minor offenses with fewer consequences for the accused. The decades-old statute was meant to protect providers, who are increasingly harmed in violent attacks....
New study links California wildfire smoke linked to over 10,000 early deaths (www.npr.org)
In a new paper published this week in Science Advances, Connolly and her colleagues calculated that wildfire smoke is responsible for about 50,000 deaths across California between 2008 and 2018....
Scientists are fixing flawed forensics that can lead to wrongful convictions (www.sciencenews.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/investigating-crime-science-for…
Anchorage Alaska police won't release bodycam video of 3 shootings. It's creating a fight over transparency (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/anchorage-police-body-cameras-k…
