Girls Basketball Team Kicked Out Of Boys League Championship After Defeating Boys Teams (www.comicsands.com)
A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.
Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal (feddit.de)
Kellogg’s CEO advice to cash-strapped shoppers: Let them eat Corn Flakes for dinner (www.cnn.com)
The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years (www.theverge.com)
Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.
Student loan borrowers skip payments: It's "an act of civil disobedience", 1 in 10 say they won't pay (www.newsweek.com)
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff (www.theguardian.com)
Because Boeing were on such a good streak already…
Putin says past U.S. elections were rigged (www.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, running for a new six-year term in an election that his opponents say is a parody of democracy, said on Tuesday that past U.S. elections had been rigged by postal voting....
AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium (www.newscientist.com)
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware (arstechnica.com)
Ukraine blows up main railway connection between Russia and China (www.politico.eu)
Ukraine’s security service blew up a railway connection linking Russia to China, in a clandestine strike carried out deep into enemy territory, with pro-Kremlin media reporting that investigators have opened a criminal case into a “terrorist attack.”...
YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button (www.androidpolice.com)
How in the hell (slrpnk.net)
Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee (www.polygon.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5340114...
Mexico supreme court decriminalizes abortion across country (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion across the country, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state....
63% of workers unable to pay a $500 emergency expense, survey finds. How employers may help change that (www.cnbc.com)
Trump expected to surrender to Fulton County jail on Thursday or Friday next week (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week – on Thursday or Friday, a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the surrender told CNN.
Florida Meteorologist: ‘I Have Never Observed So Many of Earth’s Vital Signs Blinking Red' (themessenger.com)
The next years are going to be fun… The world is burning while the fossil fuel industry is chugging along like everything is great as long as you buy enough co2 credits....
Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS (9to5google.com)
‘Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist’
My opinion on Bone conduction earphones (sh.itjust.works)
(Sorry if it’s a miss, this community looked the most fitting)...
Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG (www.tomshardware.com)
Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future (www.economist.com)
White House calls for legislation to stop Taylor Swift AI fakes (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: mbin.grits.dev/m/mews/t/22301...
Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos (www.techspot.com)
Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos::undefined