Cyber attack on London hospitals declared critical incident (www.bbc.com)
Major hospitals in London have declared a critical incident after a cyber attack led to operations being cancelled and emergency patients being diverted elsewhere....
Security tight in Hong Kong and China on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary (www.reuters.com)
Campaign launches against shipping giant Maersk over genocidal weapons trade (peoplesdispatch.org)
India’s early election results point to rebuke for Modi and his party (www.washingtonpost.com)
Two 4k external monitors through a docking station - Why is this seemingly effortless for Windows but basically impossible for Linux?
I’ve ran into this situation multiple times at my current and previous jobs. I really want to avoid Windows and use something better, but I can’t live without two external monitors....
science (lemmy.world)
Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)
Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....
China: After crackdown on Hong Kong, overseas communities carry the torch to keep Tiananmen memories alive (apnews.com)
Archived link...
Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code (blog.partykit.io)
Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit (apnews.com)
A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic....
Fauci says ‘unusual’ antics by Marjorie Taylor Greene is reason he gets death threats (www.independent.co.uk)
Former presidential medical adviser clashed with far-right congresswoman when he testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Monday about the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic...
Ruling party loses absolute majority in elections to the Indian Parliament, but likely to form government with support of allies (www.thehindu.com)
Preliminary results for the 2024 Indian General election suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to lose its absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament. However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it leads is projected to cross the halfway mark. The opposition INDIA alliance is projected to more than double...
A heat dome will send temperatures into the triple-digits across the West as fires burn (edition.cnn.com)
Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week....
Why does DRM consume vast system resources even though we have TPM, Pluton, etc.
I’ve seen many instances of some software having DRM that significantly degrades the performance of the software, or worse, the performance of the entire OS due to heavy background tasks. Prime examples include Denuvo and all those Adobe background processes. Why can’t they just simply use the TPM or the other 5 security...
74-year-old woman pronounced dead in hospice care found breathing at funeral home (abcnews.go.com)
A 74-year-old woman believed to have died while in hospice care was found to be breathing after being transported to a funeral home, authorities in Nebraska said Monday....
Russia knows Putin's Crimea bridge is 'doomed,' Ukrainian official says (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia knows Putin’s Crimea bridge is “doomed,” a Ukrainian official told The Economist....
CentOS Stream & Hyperscale SIG showcase (aka. "how to make Enterprise Linux suck less") (www.youtube.com)
I found the talk really interesting, especially how CentOS-Stream means SIGs can fork the hell out of it....
It's basically a superpower (lemmy.world)
Today, it’s all about Spanglish, the ‘language’ posing a threat to Anglocentrism in the United States (english.elpais.com)
The mix of Spanish and English is the world’s fastest growing linguistic hybrid. Experts calculate that it is spoken by 50 million people...
Portugal's new government tightens immigration rules (www.dw.com)
Prime Minister Luis Montenegro has vowed to put an end to the “wide-open doors” policy with new limitations on one of Europe’s most open immigration regimes....
We should be allowed to do it because "insert dictator here" did it isn't the great argument you think it is
Holocaust museums debate what to say about the Israel-Hamas war (www.straitstimes.com)
Looking to get into android development
I want to start learning android dev and I understand that I’ll need the android sdk and cli tools. I want to try it in a kvm because even though it is open source, I would like to keep it separate from my main system. Which distro and vm settings do you suggest I use? Any other tips or your experience with android development...
AMD Hiring To Improve Their Linux Driver/ROCm Installation Process Across Distributions (www.phoronix.com)
