*music kicks in* (sh.itjust.works)
CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978 (www.epi.org)
“average top CEO compensation was $15.6 million in 2021, up 9.8% since 2020. In 2021, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 399-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and a big increase from 20-to-1 in 1965 and 59-to-1 in 1989”
Iphone 15 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Looks Like the Website for Trump's Patriot Legal Defense Fund Just Got Hacked (gizmodo.com)
HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on multifunction printers when ink runs low (apnews.com)
Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law (www.theverge.com)
Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.
8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests (www.macrumors.com)
8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests::Apple’s new MacBook Pro models are powered by cutting-edge M3 Apple silicon, but the base configuration 14-inch model starting at $1,599…
Gazans forced to drink dirty, salty water as the fuel needed to run water systems runs out (edition.cnn.com)
Hamas’ brutal attacks in Israel on October 7 killed at least 1,400 people and the group took more than 200 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. In the wake of the assault, Israel launched an aerial bombardment of Gaza that Palestinian health officials say has killed more than 5,000 people. Israel also announced a...
BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content (deadline.com)
BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content::ChatGPT will be blocked by the BBC from scraping content in a move to protect copyrighted material.
Columbus police chief apologizes after a viral video showed officers blaming an 11-year-old girl for being groomed (www.insider.com)
Elaine R. Bryant spoke after an officer responded to a dad's call that his 11-year-old daughter was talking to a "predator" online.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $15.5 Billion to Support a Strong and Just Transition to Electric Vehicles, Retooling Existing Plants, and Rehiring Existing Workers (www.energy.gov)
Seeing things is overrated (sh.itjust.works)
I feel it in my soul (lemmy.zip)
The Russians Installed A GPS-Jammer In Ukraine. The Ukrainians Blew It Up—With A GPS-Guided Bomb. (www.forbes.com)
A bag could massacre a village (slrpnk.net)
TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. (jlc.org)
'You were warned': Judge reprimands Trump's lawyers in New York AG's $250M fraud case (abcnews.go.com)
A judge in New York expressed frustration at Donald Trump’s defense counsel while considering sanctioning the defendants and their lawyers for making frivolous arguments in the state’s civil case against the former president and others....
President Joe Biden says he will request more funding for a new coronavirus vaccine (abcnews.go.com)
President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before
YSK: Pro Publica has a tool that lets you request documentation of why your health insurer denied your claim (projects.propublica.org)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/9208209
EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments (www.eff.org)
EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments::The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted...
Unredacted FTC suit shows 'Project Nessie' price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B (techcrunch.com)
FCC Aims to Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules After US Democrats Gain Control of Panel (www.bloomberg.com)
archive.is/RyFFH
Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations (www.phoronix.com)
The first human organ created inside an animal opens the door to manufacturing ‘spare parts’ for people (english.elpais.com)
Edit: Surprised at all the vegans in this thread. I didn’t think there were so many of you. I’m glad you care so much about animal rights, that you’re willing to forego eating them and using products made from them. If you’re not vegan and have moral objections for this, maybe you should look at yourself first and all...
Moms for Liberty members call the cops on Florida librarians (popular.info)
Two members of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing activist group, have reported several Florida school librarians to law enforcement. They claimed they had evidence that librarians were distributing "pornography" to minors and requested that law enforcement officers be dispatched. This represents a serious escalation of the tactics...
