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Iran says attacks by its allies won’t stop until Israel’s war in Gaza ends (www.cnn.com)

Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, outside a morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Has anyone defederated your instance? An update to the Defederation Investigator (defed.xyz)

A few months ago I released the Defederation Investigator, a tool to verify the federation status of Lemmy instances. With this new update, I’ve expanded it to support multiple Fediverse softwares, including:...

Help me get started with VPN

TLDR: VPN-newbie wants to learn how to set up and use VPN....

What are your favorite third party controllers? (lemmy.world)

Different Eggs (lemmy.world)

A rant about an experience I had with Google maps today.

I am currently studying in college and part of my college course dictates that I most do a work experience placement. I ended being placed in a charity shop. The first couple of days went well. Its a small little shop in a shopping center so there wasn’t much for me to do. So they decided that today I’ll do some work in the...

Cancer incidence rising among adults under 50, new report finds, leaving doctors puzzled and worried (www.cnn.com)

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This tool for finding bad USB-C cables (hackaday.com)

EEVBlog also talked about this in a mailbag episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZQvSgdA2k&t=1839s...

Wind chills in parts of North Dakota reached minus 70 degrees (minus 56 degrees Celsius), while the heat index in Miami was more than 160 degrees warmer at 92 (33 degrees Celsius). (apnews.com)

Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

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GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice (www.ign.com)

GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bullst’ AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice::Grand Theft Auto voice actor Ned Luke, who played Michael De Santa in GTA 5, has called out a "fking bulls**t" AI chatbot which uses his voice.

I'm too afraid to ask (lemmy.ml)

Austrian heiress giving away $36.6M because the government won't tax her inheritance (www.cbc.ca)

Marlene Engelhorn says that when she inherited her grandmother’s multimillion-dollar fortune in 2022, she “wanted to be happy about it.”...

The US failed to track more than $1 billion in military gear given Ukraine, Pentagon watchdog says (apnews.com)

Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. (startrek.website)

Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles (www.techspot.com)

Mark Zuckerberg raising cows by feeding them dry fruits and beer, says he wants to create world's best beef (ground.news)

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s next passion is cows and beef. And to start with his passion, he has said that he is raising cows on an island in Hawaii by feeding them macadamia nuts and beer. The idea is, according to Zuckerberg, to create best beef in the world. Critics call cattle-raising project on Hawaii ranch ‘a...

Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe (www.nbcnews.com)

In several posts on X, Musk claimed without evidence that diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives put airline customers in danger....