Tech firms fail to tackle Russian propaganda - EU (www.bbc.com)
Source: Google Pixel 8 will get more Android OS updates - 9to5google (9to5google.com)
Low effort meme (programming.dev)
Lenovo quietly launched the world’s lightest laptop but it won’t sell it outside Asia (www.techradar.com)
Signs at Spanish beaches warn English-speaking tourists to stay away (www.independent.co.uk)
The threat of rock falls, water contamination and jellyfish have been used to deter visitors from Mallorcan beaches
How Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism (www.wired.com)
Scots students finish 'stiff' charity challenge cycling 400 miles from Cock Lane to Dick Place (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI (www.theonion.com)
Kendrick Lamar's company just dropped a limited-edition 'dumb' phone. It's already sold out. (www.businessinsider.com)
Kendrick Lamar enters the tech space with a collaboration on the Light Phone 2. Light phones offer minimalistic experiences without apps or color.
"This is a tremendous achievement" - Lemmy is sitting at ~36K active daily users across all instances (join-lemmy.org)
‘Qantas can't guarantee flights’, airline says, after allegedly selling 8,000 flights that were already cancelled — arguing what it did was reasonable and that “airlines can't guarantee specific fl... (home.nzcity.co.nz)
‘Qantas can’t guarantee flights’, airline says, after allegedly selling 8,000 flights that were already cancelled — arguing what it did was reasonable and that “airlines can’t guarantee specific fl…::Qantas has launched its legal defence in the ACCC "“ghost flights”" case — allegedly selling 8,000 flights...
Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study says (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/7812592...
US Vetoes Resolution Calling for ‘Humanitarian Pause’ (www.truthdig.com)
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Rishi Sunak considers tax cut for top earners after byelection defeats (www.theguardian.com)
This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters (pointieststick.com)
Yes, This Is Israel’s 9/11 (theintercept.com)
Both the U.S. and Israel were stunned to experience the ultraviolence they mete out to others....
Latino, Black enrollment in advanced math shot up after this simple change. (www.nbcnews.com)
Latino and Black students in advanced math courses grew when Texas districts stopped relying on recommendations and automatically enrolled qualifying students....
X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 (www.phoronix.com)
Made public today was CVE-2023-43785 as an out-of-bounds memory access within the libX11 code that has been around since 1996. A second libX11 flaw is stack exhaustion from infinite recursion within the PutSubImage() function of libX11… This vulnerability has been around since X11R2 in February of 1988....
Drug mimics exercise in mice, raises metabolism, increases endurance, burns fat (medicalxpress.com)
A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic (apnews.com)
Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce Eagleson, was killed when one of the hijacked planes destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center, called the events that forced the sidelining of al-Shibh’s prosecution “another example of the lack of justice that the 9/11 community has received at the hands of our own...
"Water Buffalo" just doesn't have the same ring (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Apple shares fall after China reportedly bans iPhone use by government officials | Apple (www.theguardian.com)
Apple shares fall after China reportedly bans iPhone use by government officials | Apple::The move suggests that China, which is one of Apple’s biggest markets, is unwilling to spare any US company in fight to boost homegrown technology
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
Court Says Texas’ Adult Content Age Verification Law Clearly Violates The 1st Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
We’ve been talking a lot by the rush of states to push for age verification laws all over the world, despite basically every expert noting that age verification technology is inherently a problem for privacy and security, and the laws mandating it are terrible. So far, it seems that only the Australian government has decided...
Police arrest pastor accused of molesting 8 North Korean defector children (www.nknews.org)
South Korean police on Tuesday arrested a pastor who is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting North Korean defector children, according to investigators.