A tech company hired a top NYC official’s brother. A private meeting and $1.4M in contracts followed (apnews.com)
Ahead of the 2022 school year, the education technology company 21stCentEd was seeking to expand its presence in New York City’s public schools. So they turned to a man, Terence Banks, whose new consulting firm promised to connect clients with top government stakeholders....
Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers (www.techradar.com)
A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play....
Rallies across France in support of woman who was drugged, raped. (www.rfi.fr)
Algeria president re-elected with 84.3 percent of vote: official results. (www.rfi.fr)
The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region (apnews.com)
What was once a gathering to commemorate the Ashaninka has evolved into a showcase of what they have done: the village’s self-sufficiency, which comes from growing crops and protecting its forest, is now a model for an ambitious project to help 12 Indigenous territories in western Amazon, amounting to 640,000 hectares (1.6...
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Hawaii wildfire victims made it just blocks before becoming trapped by flames, report says (apnews.com)
The wind pushed flames from house to house as a group of neighbors tried to escape their blazing subdivision, abandoning their cars in a blocked road and running to an industrial outbuilding for safety. All six perished just blocks from their homes....
Fish Linux (sh.itjust.works)
Salvagers launch new attempt to tow an oil tanker blown up by Yemen’s Houthi rebels (apnews.com)
A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a European Union naval mission said Saturday....
1.3 million Android-based TV boxes backdoored; researchers still don’t know how (arstechnica.com)
Yoda might be running on multi-threading (sh.itjust.works)
Yoda might be running on multi-threading (sh.itjust.works)
New fear unlocked (sh.itjust.works)
New fear unlocked (sh.itjust.works)
Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves (www.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/13315099
Bizarre, nine-day seismic signal caused by epic landslide in Greenland (arstechnica.com)
Iran launches new research satellite Chamran-1 into orbit (www.aljazeera.com)
Android 15 QPR1 redesigns the Settings app (9to5google.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19727459...
Not trying to clickbait but is this the end for kernel-level anti-cheat? (www.notebookcheck.net)
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The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors (apnews.com)
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