Two Reporters Covering Education in the Midwest Followed the Money … to a School in New York (www.propublica.org)
ActivityPods Releases Example App to Help Developers (wedistribute.org)
In an effort to better help prospective Fediverse developers understand Solid, the ActivityPods team has released an example app as a reference point for understanding how everything works under the hood.
Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election (www.axios.com)
Lithium metal battery with over 500 Wh/kg developed (www.notebookcheck.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17926125
Japan builds gas markets in Asia to boost LNG trading, energy security (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17926070
Interview — Robert Picardo Reactivates Voyager's Holographic Doctor for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 (blog.trekcore.com)
Monthly US consumer prices post first drop in four years as inflation subsides (www.reuters.com)
Larian CEO Swen Vincke says there were only two other RPG series he was interested in working on if he couldn't get Baldur's Gate: Fallout and Ultima (www.pcgamer.com)
Anger Foot review [85/100] (www.pcgamer.com)
Using AMD FSR 2 as a starting point, Arm engineers have developed an upscaler that should help boost performance or save battery life. (www.pcgamesn.com)
The new Intel Lunar Lake Battlemage GPU is nearly twice as fast as the Valve handheld gaming PC in this Geekbench Vulkan benchmark leak. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Upscaling Face-Off: FSR 3.1 vs DLSS 3.7/ XeSS 1.3 - Has AMD Improved? (yt.artemislena.eu)
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GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director | Holly Million stepping down after 10 months (foundation.gnome.org)
GNOME announced an interim director of Richard Littauer, who joined last week....
Tux on Canvas [template] (canvas.fediverse.events)
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'Microsoft killed my online life,' Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza (www.windowscentral.com)
A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.
The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (as well as training any kind of AI on copyrighted content) (www.theverge.com)
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new bill to make it easier to authenticate and detect artificial intelligence-generated content and protect journalists and artists from having their work gobbled up by AI models without their permission....
TIL: There was an animated tv show based on the children's book series Busytown called The Busy World of Richard Scarry (en.wikipedia.org)
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Calling all cool antifash people to defecate on this shitstain on canvas (canvas.fediverse.events)
Android 15 beta has an optional desktop mode (www.theregister.com)
Senior official says Netanyahu holding up hostage-truce deal with new demands (www.timesofisrael.com)
Channel 12 quotes officials as saying that they believe Netanyahu is trying to delay a deal because he is likely to lose his coalition over the deal, with far-right parties vowing to quit if the agreement goes through.
Rivers becoming 'reservoirs of disease' warn Suffolk scientists (www.bbc.com)
Scientists say “a reservoir of disease” is being created after discovering bacteria that naturally occur in rivers are becoming resistant to antibiotics due to the impact of sewage....