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Is the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Series Due for a Reckoning? (variety.com)

Georgia attorney sentenced for storming Capitol on Jan. 6 (www.fox5atlanta.com)

A Georgia attorney who joined the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and then went on social media to brag about breaking into then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office has been sentenced.

Guess Empress was right this time. (twitter.com)

Hollywood’s Fight Against A.I. Will Affect Us All: Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture. (newrepublic.com)

Hollywood’s Fight Against A.I. Will Affect Us All: Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.::Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.

Microsoft called out for “blatantly negligent” cybersecurity practices (www.theverge.com)

There’s been a string of security blunders in Azure in the last couple years but leaking a signing key and then trying to downplay it is really beyond the pale

Venezuela Formally Applies for BRICS Membership (orinocotribune.com)

List of recent hostile moves by Googles Chrome team (mastodon.social)

Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’ gets turned into white woman (nextshark.com)

The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request

I must know (sh.itjust.works)

The US military can't use a 110 million dollar drone base in Niger (taskandpurpose.com)

Why was it there in the first place I wonder?

Here’s the new Fitbit app with Material You redesign, coming this fall [Gallery] (9to5google.com)

Activision has misplaced its Transformer games, says Hasbro (www.gamesindustry.biz)

This is where the argument that piracy is also preserving games stands up. Although, it begs the question why games developers do not properly archive their software.

Letters from the lawyers: Musk threatens CCDH with brazen attempt to silence honest criticism. — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH (counterhate.com)

“Last week we got a letter from Elon Musk’s X. Corp threatening CCDH with legal action over our work, exposing the proliferation of hate and lies on Twitter since he became the owner. Elon Musk’s actions represent a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism and independent research in the desperate hope that he can stem...

Me trying to convince my friends to join Lemmy (lemm.ee)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/2563362...

The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel (www.theverge.com)

Samsung makes the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 official (arstechnica.com)

I haven’t shopped for a new phone for a while but I have to admit I’m eyeing the new foldables from an accessibility standpoint. I really miss the mechanical keyboards that used to be available on every phone. In the absence of that, I’d love to have the option of a full-screen keyboard on one side and still being able to...

Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. - Lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

David Tennant Defends 'Good Omens' From Accusations Of Blasphemy: “People are very keen to be offended” (winteriscoming.net)

“People are very keen to be offended,” says Good Omens star David Tennant. Ah, he’s been on the internet at least once, I see.