New 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard inspired by NES and Famicom (www.8bitdo.com)
87 keys, volume knob, hot-swappable PCB, Dual Super Buttons (two massive programmable A and B buttons) and it looks amazing.
US to announce $345 million military aid package for Taiwan (ground.news)
Could be a huge deal.
Aeolus: 'Impossible satellite' ready to fall to Earth (www.bbc.com)
A British-built spacecraft is expected to fall to Earth later on Friday, after completing a transformative mission to map the planet’s winds....
Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project | Artnet News (news.artnet.com)
A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world's citizens.
Russian lawmakers vote to raise conscription age limit to 30 (www.reuters.com)
TikTok adds text-only posts as social media battle escalates (www.bbc.com)
AI manipulation of Assassin's Creed character's voice stokes actors' concerns (www.axios.com)
Video game voice actors are fearing that the ability for generative AI to replicate their voices may cost them work and, more fundamentally, control of their own voice.
Leggy boy (pixelfed.social)
Linux Kernel Mitigated For "Zenbleed" Vulnerability Affecting AMD Zen 2 CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Asus at least has already released Bios updates as well.
Oklahoma mother and her 3 children, including 10-month-old, killed in murder-suicide during supervised visitation (www.nbcnews.com)
Police found Brandy McCaslin and her children ages 11, 6, and 10 months old dead inside the Verdigris home following a three-hour standoff.
[Ars Technica] - Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (arstechnica.com)
Google's interpretation of Apple's AirDrop, Nearby Share, is now officially out of beta for Windows. (www.gsmarena.com)
Nearby Share is a very apt name - it basically describes exactly what the entire point of it is. You can use it to quickly (and easily) share stuff between Android phones, regardless of maker. And starting today, you can use it to share files between Windows PCs and Android devices.
Pizza delivery driver shoots would-be carjacker in the butt, Pennsylvania police say (www.kansascity.com)
A pizza delivery driver shot a man in the buttocks after an attempted robbery and carjacking, according to Pennsylvania police and local media reports.
Free Bird! Plexamp Spreads Its Wings for Every Music Lover | Plex (www.plex.tv)
So we got Free version of Plexamp :)
Hyundai Motors Announces Intent to Share Tesla Charging Infrastructure (www.businesskorea.co.kr)
Hyundai Motors Announces Intent to Share Tesla Charging Infrastructure::Chung Jae-hoon, the president of Hyundai Motor Company, discussed the company’s plans concerning electric vehicle charging during the Goodwood Festival in West Sussex, England. Following the unveiling of the first high-performance electric vehicle, the...
AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)
“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...
NHS waiting lists hit record high in England. A record 7.47 million people are waiting to start routine hospital treatment, Figures for the end of May show - up from 7.42 million the previous month (www.bbc.com)
South Korea welcomes first panda twins (www.bbc.com)
Sacramento Sheriff sharing automated license plate reader data with anti-abortion states (news.yahoo.com)
Sheriff’s Office shared license plate reader data with law enforcement in states that passed laws banning abortion, including Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas
Erdoğan backs Ukraine’s NATO bid, says Putin will visit Turkey ‘next month’ (www.politico.eu)
French court won’t block Pornhub in France — for now (www.politico.eu)
TIL about vitrification of nuclear waste, wherein nuclear waste is melted down and combined with molten glass. The mixture is cooled in stainless steel canisters where it becomes a solid and can be... (www.hanfordvitplant.com)
What is vitrification? Vitrification is accomplished by mixing waste from underground tanks with glass-forming materials in high-temperature melters.
I understand it's normal to want to be in a relationship, but how do you feel happy when you aren't? (kbin.social)
I'm 36, and while my love life has been varied and interesting, over the last few years I've started to want to settle down. I know it doesn't happen overnight. But recently it's been weighing on me more and more. I reminisce about past relationships. I feel hopeless about meeting someone in the future who shares my values....
US plans to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, officials say (www.reuters.com)
China restrictis export of Gallium and Germanium needed for chips; what are they and which countries are producers? (www.reuters.com)
July 4 (Reuters) - China has announced export restrictions on some gallium and germanium products, metals used in computer chips and other products, citing national security interests.
