2 Cisgender People Killed In Suspected Anti-Trans Attacks (www.huffpost.com)
The attacks claimed the lives of an Indiana woman and an Oregon man, both cisgender people.
The West Must Recognize Its Hypocrisy writes Financial Times (archive.is)
Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" launched (mastodon.online)
Textual words from them:...
China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait (www.businessinsider.com)
‘Anti-Woke’ Water Makes a Splash at Conservative Conference (www.thedailybeast.com)
SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - Fosstodon (fosstodon.org)
YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream....
Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems (arstechnica.com)
the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on
High Rates and Prices Leave Many Stuck in a Starter Home (www.nytimes.com)
Squeezed by high interest rates and record prices, homeowners are frozen in place. They can’t sell. So first-time buyers can’t buy....
Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games (aftermath.site)
Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking (www.skynews.com.au)
It’s not even surprising anymore platforms do this & act all Pikachu face why piracy is spiking...
Four US daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin (www.theguardian.com)
Four New Hampshire daycare employees allegedly spiked children’s food with the sleep supplement melatonin and were arrested on Thursday....
2nd hand ThinkPad go brrrrr (sh.itjust.works)
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself (lunduke.locals.com)
Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations (www.theguardian.com)
As tensions with China rise, scientists at America’s leading universities complain of stalled research after crackdown at airports...
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)
Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps (arstechnica.com)
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.
In this Ukrainian village, almost no men are left (www.washingtonpost.com)
TIL you can improve your google search result by adding "before:2023" (mastodon.social)
Photo agencies are refusing to publish a portrait of Kate Middleton with her children over concerns it was manipulated (www.businessinsider.com)
The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse all released kill notifications to media outlets over the photo — released by Kensington Palace on Sunday — announcing that they would no longer be distributing the image....
Public trust in AI is sinking across the board (www.axios.com)
Trust in AI technology and the companies that develop it is dropping, in both the U.S. and around the world, according to new data from Edelman shared first with Axios....
Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?
Scientists Are Freaking Out About Ocean Temperatures: “It’s like an omen of the future.” (www.nytimes.com)
[PCGamer] Helldivers 2 is the least I've felt pressured to spend money on a game in years, so of course I'm buying everything in the store (www.pcgamer.com)
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....
