Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating (www.spacebar.news)
Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. (arstechnica.com)
More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices (www.tomshardware.com)
IAMA AMA Tech AMA (slrpnk.net)
Israel Defends Itself Against Hague Genocide Allegations with Google Ads (www.vice.com)
Searching for information on the International Court of Justice hearings yielded an Israel-sponsored ad calling the ongoing genocide hearing against it “meaningless.”...
Reddit moderator rebellion: AI moderation is part of the solution (9to5mac.com)
No more drunk driving? US to force carmakers to adopt life-saving tech by 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
When do you think violence is justified? (kbin.social)
Self defense? Only on the battlefield? Only to achieve a ‘noble’ end?
Free returns disappearing from retailers | The era of free returns — an essential part of the rise of online shopping — is ending (www.axios.com)
Donald Trump fraud trial live updates: Former president takes the stand - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Trump is now being asked whether the valuations of a number of his properties are accurate....
If only I had time to re-watch everything again (lemmy.zip)
Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians (www.theguardian.com)
Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’
Mike Johnson Said Same-Sex Marriage Would Lead to People Marrying Their Pets, Wanted to Sentence Abortion Doctors to “Hard Labor” (www.vanityfair.com)
By now you’ve likely heard that Representative Mike Johnson—the congressman Republicans finally elected as the new Speaker of the House after 22 days of chaos—played a significant role in the plot to overturn the 2020 election, a lowlight on his résumé that is obviously deeply concerning for the future of democracy. Also...
Israel formally declares war against Hamas as it battles to push militants off its soil (www.cnn.com)
Israel formally declared war on Hamas on Sunday, setting the stage for a major military operation in Gaza as fighting rages on Israeli soil. The declaration comes after Hamas, an Islamist militant group, launched a surprise assault this weekend that has so far killed over 600 Israelis....
McDonald’s once again sued after customer burns herself on hot coffee (www.cnn.com)
McDonald’s is being sued over a hot coffee spill, again....
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)
Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
In the latest unredacted document oopsie stemming from the US Federal Trade Commission's efforts to stop Microsoft acqu…
FDA says common over the counter decongestant phenylephrine does not work in oral form (www.nbcnews.com)
Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines (quandyfactory.com)
Tesla Full Self Driving Is Now 'End-To-End AI' (odysee.com)
Jacksonville shooter who targeted Black shoppers had swastikas drawn on rifle (www.nbcnews.com)
The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store....
Fifa suspends Luis Rubiales from all football-related activity over Hermoso kiss (www.theguardian.com)
Fifa has suspended Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities following his conduct at the Women’s World Cup final in Sydney
The Phoronix forms, where AMD and NVIDIA engineers can effectively communicate (lemmy.zip)
Michael should be getting royalties...
Millions of older workers are nearing retirement with nothing saved (www.msn.com)
HBO Max was renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery lost subscribers (www.theverge.com)
HBO Max was renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery lost subscribers::Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2023 following HBO Max’s rebrand to Max. The company now has 95.8 million subscribers across all of its services.
