European Parliament votes to approve the AI Act (www.technologyreview.com)
After three years, the AI Act, the EU’s new sweeping AI law, jumped through its final bureaucratic hoop last week when the European Parliament voted to approve it.
Threadverse Working Group is formed (mastodon.social)
At this year's FediForum one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a group-centric model of content representation....
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX (www.politico.eu)
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX...
Have We Reached Peak AI? (www.wheresyoured.at)
Exclusive: Google Pixel 8a boasts 120Hz display, Tensor G3, DisplayPort output, better availability (www.androidauthority.com)
Wonder if they’ll use a rigid OLED panel like they did on the 7a and 8a. Dylan Raga wrote an excellent piece reviewing the Pixel 8’s display where he said they’d finally switched to a flexible OLED panel on the regular model.
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)
Cuba's president blasts 'interventionist' U.S. amid protests over shortages (www.nbcnews.com)
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Yep, defintely not a bad person (sh.itjust.works)
A Democratic senator needs an abortion. She told her colleagues about Arizona's 'cruel' laws. (azmirror.com)
While Eva Burch spoke on the Senate floor about her planned abortion, almost all of her GOP colleagues found something else to do
MacKenzie Scott donates $640M -- more than double her initial plan -- to nonprofits (abcnews.go.com)
Billionaire philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott announced Tuesday she is giving $640 million to 361 small nonprofits that responded to an open call for applications....
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing (www.nytimes.com)
The two-bedroom penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Eiffel Tower and just about every other monument across the Paris skyline. The rent, at 600 euros a month, is a steal....
Peter Navarro is 1st Trump White House official to serve prison time related to Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)
Former White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison Tuesday for a contempt of Congress conviction, becoming the first senior Trump administration official to be locked up for a crime related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack....
Chinese scientists build prototype engine for nuclear-powered spaceship to Mars (www.scmp.com)
Cyberattacks are hitting water systems throughout US, Biden officials warn governors (www.cnn.com)
Landmark Ruling: The Peruvian Court of Nauta Recognizes the Rights of the Marañón River and the Indigenous Communities as its Guardians (www.commondreams.org)
The case for the 32-hour work week with no loss in pay w/ Bernie Sanders and Shawn Fain (www.washingtonpost.com)
"The United States is willing to engage in bilateral arms control discussions with Russia and China right now, without preconditions" - US Ambassador to UN (usun.usmission.gov)
U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty...
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ (www.theguardian.com)
How to write a QML effect for KWin, KDE's window manager (blog.vladzahorodnii.com)
Since the dawn of the times, the only way to implement any effect that has fancy user interface used to be in C++. It would be rather an understatement to say that the C++ API is difficult to use or get it right so there are no glitches. On the other hand, it would be really nice to be able to implement dashboard-like effects...
Schools should prep students for war, German minister says (www.dw.com)
The minister also called for developing a “relaxed” relationship between school students and the armed forces. She suggested that military officers visit schools to explain what “the Bundeswehr does for our security.”
