Quebec judge gives go-ahead for lawsuit over sterilisation of Indigenous women (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI (www.theatlantic.com)
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Russia’s Lunar Lander Crashes Into the Moon (www.nytimes.com)
A Russian robotic spacecraft that was headed to the lunar surface has crashed into the moon, Russia’s space agency said on Sunday, citing the results of a preliminary investigation a day after it lost contact with the vehicle....
David Mack posts that he’s submitted ‘Firewall’ his Seven of Nine novel scheduled for release in February 2024 (wandering.shop)
Looking forward to this ‘Picard’ tie-in novel telling the backstory of how Seven joined the Fenris Rangers....
StarLite: A Tablet Computer Made for Linux (us.starlabs.systems)
Not many linux tablets look appealing to me, but this one got my attention. Not just its hardware, but also the open firmware....
New indicators MR merged for Gnome 45 (gitlab.gnome.org)
Russia's central bank raises interest rates to 12% after the ruble plunges (www.cnn.com)
Russian Central Bank to hold extraordinary meeting as rouble tumbles (www.euronews.com)
This jerk was laid out like this on the floor so I went to go lay with him. He got up to lay in the exact same position on the bed (imgur.com)
The World’s Largest Time Capsule Won’t Be Opened For Another 6,000 Years (www.iflscience.com)
The World’s Largest Time Capsule Won’t Be Opened For Another 6,000 Years::“The world is engaged in burying our civilization forever, and here in this crypt we leave it to you.”
Inflation: Consumer prices rise 3.2% in July as inflation slowdown stalls (finance.yahoo.com)
[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge (www.malwarebytes.com)
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Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians (www.theguardian.com)
From Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns, it amounts to an art collection that could grace any gallery in the world....
**Ferromagnetic** half levitation of LK-99-like samples (arxiv.org)
In this preprint, the authors synthesize samples based on the claimed room temperature superconductor LK-99, and observe half-levitation similar to that seen in other recent videos, which has been ascribed to the Meissner Effect (a signature of superconductivity)....
Marine heatwave off Oregon coast considered ‘extreme’ by NOAA (www.oregonlive.com)
The average ocean temperature around the world reached 70 degrees in 2023 – the highest ever.
The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained (www.vox.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2879916...
[video] Fully levitating LK-99 sample claimed replicated (www.douyin.com)
cross-posted from: derp.foo/post/108276...
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix (asahilinux.org)
Empty box inspector on the job (i.imgur.io)
Nvidia released a paper about a 100KB text-to-image model that only trained for 4 minutes but claims to be better than bigger models (research.nvidia.com)
They also claim that it only takes about 8 seconds to generate various good images.
Hasbro Wants Old Transformers Games To Return, But Activision Lost Them (kotaku.com)
“Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building,” Hasbro told TFW2005. “When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating.”
Recently published paper shows that a component of octopus ink has the ability to provoke cancer cells death. (www.sciencedirect.com)
A recently published paper submitted by mexican scientists show that Ozepramide, an octopus ink component has the ability to provoke cancer cells death, besides of anti inflamattory properties.
Wagner could pose as migrants to enter EU, PM Morawiecki warns (www.bbc.com)
Wagner fighters in Belarus could pose as migrants and enter the EU, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has warned....
If you have spare computing power, consider donating some of that to a distributed computing project (boinc.berkeley.edu)
Berkeley has this really cool program called BOINC that you can download and donate your computer’s resources to processing scientific data. There are a bunch of projects to pick, from working on climate change, to cancer, to the Large Hadron Collider....
Mexican peso hits 7-1/2 year high vs dollar, further gains eyed (www.reuters.com)
MEXICO CITY, July 28 (Reuters) - Mexico’s peso on Friday hit its highest level against the dollar since early December 2015, as the greenback lost steam after a slowdown in U.S. inflation bolstered the case for the Federal Reserve to end its interest rate hikes....
