Crimea bridge is legitimate military target, Zelenskiy says (www.reuters.com)
July 21 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that the bridge linking the Crimea peninsula to Russia “brings war not peace” and was therefore a military target....
Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can't be trusted to guarantee AI safety (apnews.com)
Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can’t be trusted to guarantee AI safety::An artificial intelligence company executive told the first U.N. Security Council meeting on AI’s threats to global peace that the handful of big tech companies leading the race to commercialize AI can’t be trusted to guarantee the...
(OC) Fog bank on the coast of the Pacific Ocean I took this weekend (i.imgur.com)
Along the US-101 highway in Oregon.
Console Repair is now on lemmy.world
!consolerepair...
Google updates privacy policy to train its AI on everything you post online (www.androidauthority.com)
TL;DR...
What’s left of my childhood NES games (i.imgur.com)
Not pictured: Bible Adventures. I know I had more but I must have traded some in. I for sure had Jaws and Jack Nicklaus Golf. And here’s the console. I replaced the 72 pin connector and she runs perfectly still. SO CLEAN inside. I couldn’t believe how spotless it was when I opened it up.
Mississippi Jailed More Than 800 People Awaiting Psychiatric Treatment in a Year. Just One Jail Meets State Standards. (www.propublica.org)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/xebtk?wr=true
Haifa graffiti saying ‘Sorry my dear Gaza’ lands Palestinians in Israeli prison, indefinitely (mondoweiss.net)
Two Palestinian citizens of Israel being held indefinitely in security prison for a possibly “dangerous” crime. Their offense? Writing graffiti in solidarity with Gaza....
Never become credible lads... (lemmy.ca)
Panther Missle LAUNCH (slrpnk.net)
Brace yourself, a report suggests that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 (ghacks.net)
Baldur's Gate 3 dev shows off the level of optimization achieved for the Xbox Series S port, which bodes well for future PC updates (www.pcgamer.com)
Kirk's sleep troubles (startrek.website)
[OC] - as always, feel free to take it/repost wherever you want....
Harbor Stairs (lemmy.world)
Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying (www.androidpolice.com)
Apple Music isn’t the best streaming music service — it’s just the least annoying::Competitors like Spotify and YouTube Music may be your first choice for music on Android, but you might want to reconsider
Breathe in deep (startrek.website)
A Tidal Wave of State and Private Repression Is Targeting Pro-Palestinian Voices (jacobin.com)
Critics of Israel’s merciless war on Gaza are facing threats of government prosecution and blacklists or firings. In this neo-McCarthyist environment, anything pro-Palestine is being made to carry the whiff of bigotry or even incitement to violence.
Huawei phones are saying that the Google app is a virus (9to5google.com)
US woman charged with hosting parties with alcohol for teens and encouraging sexual assault (www.theguardian.com)
A woman accused of hosting parties for her teenage son and his friends in northern California where she encouraged them to drink and sexually assault intoxicated girls was charged on Monday with more than five dozen felony and misdemeanor counts....
"When an eight-year-old tells you that she doesn’t want to die, it’s hard not to feel helpless:" toll of Israel-Palestine crisis on children ‘beyond devastating’, UN says (news.un.org)
"Threats go beyond the bombs and mortars”, UNICEF’s James Elder stressed. Infant deaths due to dehydration are “a growing threat” in the enclave as Gaza’s water production is at five per cent of the required volume due to non-functioning desalination plants which are either damaged or lack fuel....
‘Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing (www.politico.com)
In the summer of 2022, with a spike in violent crime hitting New Orleans, the city council voted to allow police to use facial-recognition software to track down suspects — a technology that the mayor, police and businesses supported as an effective, fair tool for identifying criminals quickly....