Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609...
Florida deputy’s son, 10, accused of selling dead father’s gun to classmate for $300 (www.nbcnews.com)
Two 10-year-old students were arrested in connection with a gun sold at their elementary school in Florida, county officials confirmed....
There was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.
Church Attendance Has Declined in Most U.S. Religious Groups (news.gallup.com)
Three in 10 U.S. adults attend religious services regularly, led by Mormons at 67%...
I guess this isn’t news to anyone, but I just thought of it (feddit.de)
Raising a child costs between $13k[2] and $35k[1] per year in the USA – depending on where you live and who you ask....
What are the other 6 Ds? (lemmy.world)
10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.
Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator must cease operations after $2.4M lawsuit (www.dexerto.com)
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/800f0cf8-e082-4181-8d11-0c6e1fa75127.png...
AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources (www.tomshardware.com)
In the wave of AI controversies and lawsuits, CNET has been publicly admonished since it first started posting thinly-veiled AI-generated content on its site in late 2022— a scandal that has culminated in the site being demoted from Trusted to Untrusted Sources on Wikipedia....
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (www.theregister.com)
Tech Company Leaks 2FA Codes/Password Reset Links for Major Platforms (techcrunch.com)
A security breach exposed two-factor authentication (2FA) codes/password reset links for millions of users on platforms like Facebook, Google, and TikTok....
Guys, lots of people on other communities are unsubscribing from here because of all the inane, boring "jeans" karma-whoring. Its "shitpost", not "shit post" (lemmy.world)
The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega (www.videogameschronicle.com)
No Sega, a remake of a, admittedly great, nearly 25 year old game is not a triple A game but does make you sound like a quadruple A-hole.
Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl! (sh.itjust.works)
Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl! 🏈 There will be peace in Ukraine! There will be peace in Gaza! God bless the DNC! And GOD bless Taylor Swift! 🇺🇲❤️🔥
When Pi-hole is down?
I have an asus router with a pi-hole on the network....
New-wave reactor technology could kick-start a nuclear renaissance — and the US is banking on it (www.cnn.com)
Off the Siberian coast, not far from Alaska, a Russian ship has been docked at port for four years. The Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, sends energy to around 200,000 people on land using next-wave nuclear technology: small modular reactors....
If you had to live in a fictional magical world, but you wouldn't be magical, what world would you pick?
White House calls for legislation after ‘alarming’ proliferation of Taylor Swift deepfakes — Social media networks also need to do more to prevent the spread of the images, said press secretary Kar... (www.bloomberg.com)
White House calls for legislation after ‘alarming’ proliferation of Taylor Swift deepfakes — Social media networks also need to do more to prevent the spread of the images, said press secretary Kar…::The White House said sexually-explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift were concerning and that Congress...
Conservatives Are So Scared of Diversity They’re Starting to Boycott ‘Woke’ Airlines (www.rollingstone.com)
Right-wingers have convinced themselves that planes are unsafe because of diversity initiatives — and some have sworn off flying altogether
Being forced to download the Reddit app onto my phone to view any 'NSFW' post, even though I'm on my desktop (lemmy.ca)
A friend sent me the link but I guess I’ll have to tell him to send me screenshots in the future....
Why do some TV broadcasts show a person translating it to sign language instead of using subtitles?
I assume there must be a reason why sign language is superior but I genuinely don’t know why.
TIL (startrek.website)
If the real world worked like Pokémon, what animal would evolve into what animal?
What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on?
Be it a game that’s difficult in its entirety, or a particular challenge in a game that you just couldn’t complete....
If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?
Imagine the following scenario: On the 9th of January 2024 in the morning we wake up to news that President of the USA Joe Biden suffered a stroke and died in White House. The administration confirms that the death was entirely natural and no third party contributed to it. Even before the news reach all TV stations another one...