Uganda restoring colonial-era rail after China fails to fund another line (www.aljazeera.com)
Uganda has started construction to restore a British-era railway line after it failed to get funding from China for another standard gauge railway (SGR)....
must be some new tik tok challenege or something (fediverse.boo)
Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet (www.abc.net.au)
FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies, lawsuit says (www.cnbc.com)
confused catto (lemmy.world)
Enough with the Mark Zuckerberg Love (jogblog.substack.com)
The article criticizes recent media coverage portraying Mark Zuckerberg as “cool” again based on his success with Threads and a shirtless photo he posted. The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife, and that Threads’ success is questionable given it is mostly used...
Threads Continues to Copy Twitter's Worst Elements With New Rate Limits (gizmodo.com)
Putin says he tried but failed to oust Prigozhin after Wagner mutiny (www.theguardian.com)
What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most?
Personally, I’m looking forward to native Wayland support for Wine and KDE’s port to Qt 6.
Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data (techcrunch.com)
Lemmy (i.imgur.com)
Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library (www.thedailybeast.com)
Some commands to confuse the newbies (post from GNU+Linux Humor) (lemmy.ml)
this is from this post on !linuxhumor...
Mt Rainier, WA taken from Crystal Mountain (lemmy.world)
Any love for the N64?
I don’t see many posts here about the N64 and it doesn’t look like there is an N64 community on lemmy.world It’s the console I have the most nostalgia for and I have over 130 games in my collection. I’m currently playing a ROM hack called SM64: Beyond the Cursed Mirror. It has some pretty challenging platforming but it...
Russia's Losses as of July 4th, 2023 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
X continues to suck at moderating hate speech, according to a new report (www.theverge.com)
X continues to suck at moderating hate speech, according to a new report::A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suggests X is failing to remove posts that violate its own community rules regarding misinformation and hate speech.
SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design and Manufacturing Flaws, Says Data Recovery Firm (www.tomshardware.com)
SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design and Manufacturing Flaws, Says Data Recovery Firm::A data recovery specialist from Austria uncovers several possible hardware reasons for the Extreme Pro’s failures.
YSK that the free and not-for-profit meditation app Medito had a huge update and is even better now
Built by a dutch non-profit, Medito is a meditation app that is completely free without ads, supported by donations from the community. The new update brought a completely new interface and new content....
Omegle shuts down--founder cites "stress and expense of this fight – coupled with the existing stress and expense of operating Omegle, and fighting its misuse" (www.omegle.com)
I no longer like jazz (startrek.website)
Philippino Journalist shot dead during live broadcast (www.theguardian.com)
A radio anchor in the southern Philippines has been fatally shot in his studio in a brazen attack witnessed by people watching the programme live on Facebook....
Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? (garymarcus.substack.com)
Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’ (www.theguardian.com)
Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
