McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now (www.theverge.com)
Start ups when that VC funding kicks in
TikTok sues the US government over ban (www.theverge.com)
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
Added Bugs to Keep my job (sh.itjust.works)
Ukraine notified the Council of Europe of the partial suspension of some clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights and Freedoms in connection to recent changes in its martial law. (www.euronews.com)
The western values Ukraine is defending are becoming more apparent by the day.
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....
It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.
Chick-fil-A changing its chicken sparks backlash (www.newsweek.com)
Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has sparked a social media backlash after announcing that it will soon allow certain antibiotics in the chickens it raises, citing supply issues....
Pornhub disables website in Texas after AG sues for not verifying users’ ages (thehill.com)
Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site....
Thank you American software (lemmy.today)
I cannot stand these spam calls any more. (lemm.ee)
(Picture alt text: a screenshot of my phone’s call log, with numbers redacted (just in case). The phone numbers (except for one) are all spam calls)...
Reddit sent me invitations to their IPO to my "deleted" accounts! That's a GDPR violation! (lemmy.world)
Any pointers on how to report them?...
'You're an amazing father, Elon': Musk accused of running burner on X again—and nuking account who outed him (www.dailydot.com)
Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinated (arstechnica.com)
Over 100 children at the school are susceptible to virus.
Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?
And instead changing the time work and other things happens depending on where you are. Would be easier to arrange meetings across the globe. Same thing applies to summertime. You may start work earlier if you want, but dont change the clocks!
Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads (startrek.website)
Biden Sharpens Criticism of Israel, Calling Gaza Response ‘Over the Top’ (www.nytimes.com)
Where are the good political songs? (piped.video)
I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that’s intelligent and outraged - like we should be!...
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
Spices too (lemm.ee)
All lives rule (suppo.fi)
EU condemns Hamas for using 'hospitals as human shields', urges Israeli restraint (www.reuters.com)
'No Possibility' of Gaza Cease-Fire, Biden Says as 500+ Former Staffers Demand One (www.commondreams.org)
“As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now,” the staffers wrote.
Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)
Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined