Housing crisis: Andorra is getting fed up with wealthy foreigners (www.euronews.com)
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup (themarkup.org)
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time
Actress Julia Ormond Accuses Harvey Weinstein of Battery in Lawsuit (www.nytimes.com)
Why Big Tech's bet on AI assistants is so risky (www.technologyreview.com)
Five People Arrested on Suspicion of Spitting at Christians in Jerusalem's Old City (www.haaretz.com)
The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter (www.nobelprize.org)
Mexico's president slams U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba (www.pbs.org)
De-dollarisation and Internationalisation of Other Currencies: Geopolitics and Implications for Dollar Diplomacy (developingeconomics.org)
BollyMaza site (from Megathread/Moves & TV) is requiring Plesk sign-in (www.reddit.com)
I don’t know what plesk is; from a simple search it seems like hosting software. Does that mean the site is currently down? Can anyone link any other websites for getting Bollywood Movies with high quality (1080/4k/BrRips)? I tried searching for the one I want but the others don’t have it, or have it in very low quality.
Nigeria offers wage rise to state workers as strike looms (www.reuters.com)
Maldives: Opposition candidate wins presidential election (www.dw.com)
Calls for boycott after alleged assault mars Lebanon film festival (www.aljazeera.com)
LIFF members deny the attack, and lawyer representing festival says a case will be filed against the accuser.
See Shaxs Unleashed In Preview Of ‘Star Trek: Day of Blood – Shaxs’ Best Day’ (trekmovie.com)
Turkopticon and The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Applaud Congressional Letter Holding Big Tech Accountable for Data Worker Abuse (www.dair-institute.org)
Turkopticon and the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) applaud the Congressional announcement of a letter by Sen. Markey (D-Mass) and Rep. Jayapal (WA-07) which demands that Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and other tech giants answer questions about the working conditions of data workers, especially those involved in training and...
Canada’s house speaker apologises after praising Ukrainian veteran of Nazi unit (www.theguardian.com)
US Will Pay Salaries to Thousands of Ukrainians During Government Shutdown (www.newsweek.com)
Kosovo police surround 30 gunmen in monastery after officer shot (www.bbc.com)
US will establish diplomatic ties with the Cook Islands and Niue as Biden hosts Pacific leaders (apnews.com)
Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly (www.phoronix.com)
Archinstall 2.6.1 key features include allowing a custom number of parallel downloads to be specified, the option to use Ly, an ncurses-like display manager, the option to use Slick-Greeter with LightDM, and adding Kitty/Dolphin/Wofi to Hyprland....
WGA & Studio CEOs Near Deal Finish Line, Working On Fine Print (deadline.com)
https://deadline.com/2023/09/writers-strike-deal-close-1235554418/
The multi-platform frameworks (dart-flutter, react-native, etc), are they effective? To what extent? (lemmy.world)
Any insight will be highly appreciated 🙂
[Exclusive] Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro Official High-Res Renders Showing Off Design and Colour Options Revealed (www.mysmartprice.com)
After a lull, asylum-seekers adapt to US immigration changes and again overwhelm border agents (apnews.com)
A group of migrants from China surrendered to a Border Patrol agent in remote Southern California as gusts of wind drowned the hum of high-voltage power lines, joining others from Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and elsewhere in a desert campsite with shelters made from tree branches....