In over 15 states, schools can still paddle students as punishment (www.washingtonpost.com)
Corporal punishment remains legal, especially in the South. It still has its defenders. But the costs can be steep.
North Korea's Kim dismisses top general, calls for war preparations (www.reuters.com)
Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration (www.businessinsider.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2936916...
Car crashes into second floor of Pennsylvania house (www.nbcnews.com)
She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Australia is gripped by the mysterious deaths of three people in a suspected poisoning case that reads like a fictional thriller....
Just completed Undertale for the first time, this truly is something special. (beehaw.org)
Hey people!...
Philippines accuses China of firing water cannons at its ships in South China Sea (www.cnn.com)
Texas woman seriously injured after hawk drops snake on her (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1224173...
Zoom Changes TOS to Say It Won't Train AI on Your Calls 'Without Your Consent' After Backlash (www.vice.com)
Zoom Changes TOS to Say It Won’t Train AI on Your Calls ‘Without Your Consent’ After Backlash::Zoom added a line to its terms of use on Monday, after concerns that the company was using calls to train artificial intelligence algorithms went viral.
Italian man crushed to death by thousands of falling cheese wheels (ground.news)
AMA with Lemmy creators is live (lemmy.ml)
over at lemmy.ml/post/2920188
The Irish Light: Woman abused by paper which falsely said vaccine killed her son (www.bbc.co.uk)
In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)
In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black::Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.
SNW Musical Episode: Klingons’ Boy Band Number Was Almost an Opera (tvline.com)
Arguably one of the best moments in the SNW Musical episode subspace rhapsody was Bruce Horak Cameo as the captain of the Klingon boy band. But there is a deleted scene of the opera version that while absolutly best scene won, would be fun to see released to fans
Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1088852...
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/vNSJa
Australian Christian Lobby says plans to combat social media misinformation will ‘cancel Christian posts’ (www.theguardian.com)
Claim comes despite draft of bill explaining media regulator will not be empowered to request specific content be removed from digital platforms
Hades player beats unmodded 64 Heat difficulty run - "arguably unachievable in thousands of hours" (www.gamesradar.com)
Haelian published a video a week or so ago setting out the probabilities for why it was so unlikely that this difficulty configuration would ever be beat: youtu.be/S-VUzcJHWF0...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Delay Shows The Xbox Series S Still A Headache For Developers (www.kotaku.com.au)
I’m not sure Microsoft did this generation of consoles any favours by launching the Series S.
Worldcoin suspended in Kenya as thousands queue for free money (www.bbc.com)
The Kenyan government has ordered cryptocurrency project Worldcoin to stop signing up new users, citing data privacy concerns.
OpenAI files a trademark for GPT-5 (uspto.report)
We knew this was coming, but now it’s official.
Torture, sexual violence commonly used by Russian forces in Ukraine, say experts (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/950318...
Meta begins process to end news access to Facebook, Instagram users in Canada (globalnews.ca)
If you have spare computing power, consider donating some of that to a distributed computing project (boinc.berkeley.edu)
Berkeley has this really cool program called BOINC that you can download and donate your computer’s resources to processing scientific data. There are a bunch of projects to pick, from working on climate change, to cancer, to the Large Hadron Collider....