European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)
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Man arrested after allegedly planning to bomb Satanic Temple in Salem (www.boston.com)
According to a Jan. 12 press release by the Salem Police Department, 30-year-old Luke Isaac Terpstra was arrested and charged with possession of bombs with unlawful intent, after an investigation by the Grant Police Department in Michigan....
Cannabis activates specific hunger neurons in brain (news.wsu.edu)
While it is well known that cannabis can cause the munchies, researchers have now revealed a mechanism in the brain that promotes appetite in a set of animal studies at Washington State University....
Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals (www.theguardian.com)
White teacher accused of classroom noose display claims she’s victim of racial discrimination (www.independent.co.uk)
A white New York school teacher allegedly accused of putting up a racially offensive image in a classroom claims she was a victim of racial discrimination herself....
EU Parliament wants Hungary stripped of voting rights (www.euractiv.com)
Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered details enhancements, new features (www.gematsu.com)
Microsoft launches a Pro plan for Copilot (techcrunch.com)
Egg Prices Are Rising Again. Why Are They So Expensive? (www.nerdwallet.com)
Drone video shows Gaza destruction after 100 days of war - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Chinese-developed nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan — Betavolt BV100 built with Nickel-63 isotope and diamond semiconductor material (www.tomshardware.com)
shocked, I say (slrpnk.net)
Already 110 Lemmy instances updated to 0.19.2! (fedidb.org)
Seems to have fixed some of the federation issues (some instances still experience some, but that probably needs to be investigated by the local admins)
In his 1st interview, friend who warned officials of Maine shooter says 'I literally spelled it out' (apnews.com)
For 17 years, Sean Hodgson was best friends with the man who would commit Maine's deadliest mass shooting.
Politicians from Germany’s AfD met extremist group to discuss deportation ‘masterplan’ (www.theguardian.com)
AYANEO NEXT LITE handheld announced with SteamOS Linux | UPDATE: Not SteamOS Apparently (www.gamingonlinux.com)
UPDATE: Despite saying they were using SteamOS on the homepage, they’ve since clarified that it’s actually “an optimized version based on HoloISO”. HoloISO seems to be a community compiled version of SteamOS. It’s very similar but it’s not officially SteamOS....
North Korea rolls out 4G service with secondhand Huawei gear (www.lightreading.com)
9 arrested after secret tunnel found at Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn (abc7ny.com)
Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE (www.theguardian.com)
Arctic Ice harvests ice from the fjords of Greenland, and then ships them to the United Arab Emirates to sell to exclusive bars. Using glacial ice in drinks is a common practice in Greenland, and, over the years, several entrepreneurs have unsuccessfully attempted to export it....
The activist who’s taking on artificial intelligence in the courts: ‘This is the fight of our lives’ (english.elpais.com)
The American Matthew Butterick has started a legal crusade against generative artificial intelligence (AI). In 2022, he filed the first lawsuit in the history of this field against Microsoft, one of the companies that develop these types of tools (GitHub Copilot). Today, he’s coordinating four class action lawsuits that bring...
Passenger phone found on ground after Alaska Airlines emergency (abcnews.go.com)
“I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet,” Bates said in a video recorded for social media Sunday....
Israel says Gaza fighting could last a year, amplifying fears of regional war (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli defence officials and former senior intelligence officers have said they expect fighting in Gaza to continue for at least a year, raising the prospect of thousands more civilian casualties, a deepening humanitarian crisis and a continuing grave threat to regional stability....
23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits (www.wired.com)
23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It’s Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits::Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more.
Netflix considers adding in-app purchases and ads to games, report says (techcrunch.com)
According to The Wall Street Journal, the company has had discussions about how to make money from its games for months now, including in-app purchases, putting a price tag on more premium titles and placing ads on games that subscribers to its ad tier have access to. These methods are common (and effective) in the mobile gaming...
