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Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says (www.theguardian.com)

Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official...

Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)

New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an “AI powered” alt-text generator....

Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" (www.salon.com)

“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”

The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones (x.com)

[complete transcription so that you do not need to visit X]...

What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters (www.theatlantic.com)

Reading too much into the language seems, at this point, to be less of a danger than reading too little into it....

Remove text on TPE phone case? (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)

Hi. When I got a new phone a couple weeks ago, it came with this really nice, name-brand (not giving names here) phone case. It’s really rugged and feels great on the hands. It’s also one of the most premium phone-case options out there....

Damn no integrated advanced AI-driven solution that analyzes patterns and just predicts the errors? 🤨 (lemmy.sdf.org)

This cannot be unseen. (lemmy.world)

You think they’re done? Oh no....

It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina (arstechnica.com)

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....

Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)

Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?...

Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)

Firefox community things [HELP] (lemy.lol)

lemy.lol/post/24667681Firefox pwa isn’t working

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' (www.theregister.com)

'This is a Crime Ahainst Humanity': 600,000 Children in Line of Fire as IDF Moves on Rafah (therealnews.com)

EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants (zeteo.com)

A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....

Is it possible to safely torrent without a VPN?

Funds are limited at the moment and i’d rather not have a monthly subscription to worry about....

Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 (www.tomshardware.com)

So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard?

For the record I support multi gender spaces but I am apparently in the minority of people who thinks bears are scary

Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding (www.pcgamer.com)

FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

2 men are charged with cutting down famous 150-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall in England (apnews.com)

Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday....

How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone (www.cnet.com)

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it’s building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”