Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review in order to access the playtest (files.catbox.moe)
On today’s episode of “This shouldn’t be legal”…...
Two newborn twins need a one-dose treatment that would save their lives: Zolgensma, a $2.1M drug. Insurance (also the mother's employer) cut coverage of the drug the day after they were born. (www.wbtv.com)
america is so fucking based man...
Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)
Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.
Happy Lunar New Year (sh.itjust.works)
Happened to me multiple times (lemmy.zip)
Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla (www.cnn.com)
In a series of posts on X Monday night, Musk said that he would not want to grow Tesla to become a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics without a compensation plan that would give him ownership of around 25% of the company’s stock. That would be about double the roughly 13% stake he currently owns....
Federal judge orders documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed (abcnews.go.com)
Video shows stripped Palestinian men detained in Gaza (www.bbc.com)
With fighting raging around Khan Younis and in the north of Gaza, a video has emerged on social media showing dozens of Palestinian men detained by Israel.
They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are (lemmy.world)
Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says (www.cnn.com)
Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report
FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)
Fantasy rednecks (lemmy.world)
Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed....
An £8 sandwich in Starbucks (lemmy.world)
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
Being “gifted”, only makes you wish you weren’t sometimes (i.imgur.com)
TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion (www.nytimes.com)
For critics of widening projects, the prime example of induced demand is the Katy Freeway in Houston, one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes....
Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)
The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s...
6-year-old girl denied passport because she’s named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character (nypost.com)
All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration (www.theverge.com)
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
Source...
Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):...
What's your fave movie of all time that you love to recommend to people?
For me it’s Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing