Star Trek: Discovery Beats Picard & Rises Higher In Nielsen Streaming Top 10 (screenrant.com)
tl;dr ST Discovery is doing well in the ratings, despite cancellation being announced already....
These crows have counting skills previously only seen in people (www.nature.com)
Star Trek 3 Is Finding Its Way Back to Theaters (gizmodo.com)
Britain covered up tainted blood scandal that killed thousands, report finds (www.upi.com)
Hosting a writefreely.org instance (k.fe.derate.me)
Looking through the writefreely.org instances on their website, a lot of the links are dead or closed for registration. The one that is open and working is promoting a paid version. Is hosting a writefreely instance heavy on resources, attracting the wrong people or just not "cool" enough?
Prolific Mortal Kombat 1 Modder Accuses Warner Bros. of ‘Threatening to Destroy My YouTube Channel’ (www.ign.com)
ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)
The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....
Hacker defaces spyware app’s site, dumps database and source code (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet (gizmodo.com)
Behold the Mareșal tank! (libranet.de) Romanian
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Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)
Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com)
Mexico City’s water ‘Day Zero’ may come even for the wealthiest residents (wapo.st)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9918420...
Israel breaking international law, says Germany's Habeck – DW – 05/25/2024 (p.dw.com)
Google Patches Fourth Chrome Zero-Day in Two Weeks (www.securityweek.com)
Cybercriminals Exploit Cloud Storage For SMS Phishing Scams (www.infosecurity-magazine.com)
So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. (threadreaderapp.com)
Along with @maciejwolczyk we’ve been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recently, something unexpected happened.
Boluarte Authorizes the Entry of US Military Into Peru (www.telesurenglish.net)
New tests confirm milk from flu-infected cows can make other animals sick — and raise questions about flash pasteurization (www.cnn.com)
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.
South Africa Confirms 23 Countries Want to Join BRICS Group (www.telesurenglish.net)
Saw The Eclipse And Aurora? Now Comes A Third Once-In-A-Lifetime Event (www.forbes.com)
Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work (defector.com)
iFixit is breaking up with Samsung. ‘Samsung’s approach to repairability does not align with our mission,’ says iFixit’s CEO. (www.theverge.com)
iFixit and Samsung are ending their partnership on a direct-to-consumer phone repair program....
