Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity (www.bbc.com)
US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not....
We built a mean game to test AI's ability to apologise (www.bbc.com)
The project was a test to see how artificial intelligence might change one of the most delicate types of human interaction: the interpersonal apology. The companies who make AI-powered chatbots suggest we should find ways to insert them into our lives when we don’t know what to say or how to say it. That’s all well and good...
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...
TorrentGalaxy Goes Offline With Mysterious Message to Users (torrentfreak.com)
The Heptones - Crystal Blue Persuasion (youtu.be)
Alleged Russian spy from Essex appears in court charged with passing on MP’s details (www.telegraph.co.uk)
How can I fix this rotation issue? (lemdro.id)
I’m using EndeavourOS with KDE....
Just the little things
Former head of the NSA joins OpenAI board of directors (engineering.vanderbilt.edu)
I played Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and talked to its creator about quests that 'don't give you the dragon money' (www.pcgamer.com)
US-built pier in Gaza is facing its latest challenge — whether the UN will keep delivering the aid (apnews.com)
The U.S.-built pier to bring food to Gaza is facing one of its most serious challenges yet — its humanitarian partner is deciding if it can safely and ethically keep delivering supplies arriving by the U.S. sea route to starving Palestinians....
US lawmakers grill Microsoft president over China ties, hacks (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft President Brad Smith fielded questions about the tech giant’s security practices and ties to China at a House homeland security panel on Thursday, a year after alleged China-linked hackers spied on federal emails by hacking the firm....
House Republicans launch investigation into news rating group NewsGuard (www.axios.com)
Superman photosynthesizes
He gets his strength from the sun.
FINAL FANTASY XIV: DAWNTRAIL Launch Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus....
Aniyomi anime sources removed
(copy paste from the aniyomi discord announcement)...
Linux users survey! (pad.tchncs.de)
To get an idea of this community, and to try the cool CryptPad Survey feature, I created a pretty big Linux usage survey!...