Leaked Memo Claims New York Times Fired Artists to Replace Them With AI (futurism.com)
FAA investigates counterfeit titanium used in some Boeing and Airbus jets (ground.news)
Can a System Handle Brown/Blackouts on only the GPU?
I am planning to build a multipurpose home server. It will be a NAS, virtualization host, and have the typical selfhosted services. I want all of these services to have high uptime and be protected from power surges/balckouts, so I will put my server on a UPS....
Saudi Arabia ends 80-year petrodollar deal with US for multi-currency sales (www.indiatoday.in)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/24 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Activism Uncensored: Thousands surround White House with two-mile long "red line" banner for Palestine (www.racket.news)
Yellen says China's trade policies could 'interfere significantly' with US bilateral relationship (apnews.com)
Telehealth executives accused of $100m Adderall scheme (www.bbc.com)
US investigators have arrested the founder and CEO of a telehealth company who is accused of a running a $100m (£78m) scheme to fraudulently distribute over 40m pills of Adderall and other controlled substances....
Woman dies after being hit by police truck on S.C. beach (www.wrdw.com)
The developers of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault are making a 1920s school detective mystery (web.archive.org)
GPU-boosting GDDR7 memory coming this year — SK hynix retracts comments, launching in Q4 (www.tomshardware.com)
Tennessee sheriff faces 22 charges in 2 counties, accused of profiting from inmate labor (www.tennessean.com)
A Tennessee sheriff is facing 22 charges in two counties after a state investigation found he allegedly participated in a scheme to profit from inmate labor....
DLC Trailer A Dance of Masks | Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (yt.artemislena.eu)
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SELACO IS MAGIC [Civvie 11] (yt.artemislena.eu)
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Cryptmaster Review [Mandalore Gaming] (yt.artemislena.eu)
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‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city (www.theguardian.com)
Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote in the European elections, with particular support in the east...
OpenAI Appoints Former NSA Director to Board of Directors (www.securityweek.com)
Wildlife experts urge action on pesticides as UK insect populations plummet (www.theguardian.com)
Campaigners say next government must reduce use and toxicity of pesticides before it is too late...
Boeing and Airbus may have used 'counterfeit' titanium in planes, FAA says (www.nbcnews.com)
The Federal Aviation Administration said it would investigate allegations that titanium had entered the supply chain via falsified documents....
The old primary argument against panpsychism has now become the primary argument for it
Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn’t what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, “So, rocks are conscious?” This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism....
Chinese #MeToo journalist jailed for five years (www.bbc.com)
A prominent female #MeToo activist in China has been handed a five-year jail sentence for “subversion against the state”....
Meet Guy Sims Fitch, a Fake Writer Invented by the US Government (gizmodo.com)
Guy Sims Fitch was created by the United States Information Agency (USIA), America’s official news distribution service for the rest of the world. Today, people find the term “propaganda” to be incredibly loaded and even negative. But employees of the USIA used the term freely and proudly in the 1950s and 60s, believing...
