Google says it's killing 17 Assistant features to improve the user experience (mobilesyrup.com)
Johnson Says He’ll Stand by Deal to Avert Shutdown, Spurning Hard-Right Demands (www.nytimes.com)
Speaker Mike Johnson said on Friday that he stood by the spending deal he negotiated with Democrats to avert a government shutdown, spurning demands from ultraconservatives who have pressured him to jettison the agreement....
Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist with Targets, Document Suggests (theintercept.com)
Targeting intelligence — the information used to conduct airstrikes and fire long-range artillery weapons — has played a central role in Israel’s siege of Gaza. A document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggests that the U.S. Air Force sent officers specializing in this exact form of intelligence to Israel...
13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives (itsfoss.com)
For those of you who don’t want to use a ChatGPT but want a LLM.
Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark (www.ign.com)
Starbucks sued for allegedly using coffee from farms with rights abuses while touting its ‘ethical’ sourcing (www.nbcnews.com)
The lawsuit calls for the coffee chain to end its “unfair and deceptive” trade practices and argues that the company is aware of the child and forced labor on some of its supplier farms....
TIL the fortune-telling practice of Tyromancy uses cheese to predict the future. (www.saveur.com)
Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm (arstechnica.com)
Based on Mirai malware, self-replicating NoaBot installs cryptomining app on infected devices.
In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings (fosstodon.org)
COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux....
Air Canada passenger opens cabin door, falls out of plane before takeoff at YYZ (globalnews.ca)
10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science (scitechdaily.com)
10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science::A new material that doesn’t just rival the strength of diamonds and graphene, but boasts a yield strength 10 times greater than Kevlar, renowned for its use in bulletproof vests. Researchers at Delft University of Technology, led by...
New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favoured Israel, Analysis Shows (theintercept.com)
Judges skeptical of Trump’s immunity appeal at court hearing for 2020 election interference case (www.nbcnews.com)
The judges also questioned the attorneys about whether they should even render a decision on his claim of immunity and instead allow the case to move forward in the trial court....
See How Hot 2023 Was in Two Charts. Hint: Record Hot. (www.nytimes.com)
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In the race for AI supremacy, China and the US are travelling on entirely different tracks (www.theguardian.com)
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Billionaire Bill Ackman Flip-Flops on Plagiarism After Wife Gets Caught (www.thedailybeast.com)
Ackman also complained on Sunday morning that Business Insider broke “the code of the road” by going after his family.
This Spyro the Dragon tweet has fans thinking a new instalment is coming (www.eurogamer.net)
I’ve played and almost 100% the Spyro trilogy when it came out. The games were lovely and (aside from the gorgeous remade graphics) the gameplay has aged really well....
Do you prefer Twitch or YouTube for watching live streams? (kbin.social)
Title. Curious if I should get a Twitch account or not as currently I only have YouTube. Not sure if I want another corpo ad machine in my life.
Sputnik — Niger Decides to Nationalize Its Water Sector, Terminates Contract With French Company (en.sputniknews.africa)
Gaza refugees bombed in tented ‘safe zone’ (www.thetimes.co.uk)
There was little shelter and barely any services in al-Mawasi when the Abu Hatab family arrived seeking sanctuary from the intensifying bombardment around their homes in Khan Yunis....
Former Call of Duty and Blizzard Devs Speak Out Against Bobby Kotick; States He Made Games Worse (mp1st.com)
Former Call of Duty and Blizzard Devs Speak Out Against Bobby Kotick; States He Made Games Worse::With Bobby Kotick no longer at Activision, some developers who worked on Call of Duty and more have begun speaking out about his actions.
You probably don't need a VPN (www.spacebar.news)
US seizes more illegal e-cigarettes, but thousands of new ones are launching (apnews.com)
Federal officials are seizing more shipments of unauthorized electronic cigarettes at U.S. ports, but thousands of new flavored products continue pouring into the country from China, according to government and industry data reviewed by The Associated Press....
Today 4 years ago, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of a suspected SARS patient in a Wuhan WeChat group. Soon later, he was arrested for “making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.” (harakahdaily.net)
Dr. Wenliang’s message went viral, becoming the earliest warning of what we now know today as Covid-19. He returned to work, but contracted Covid from a patient, and died on February 7, 2020....
China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty (www.newsweek.com)
China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty::Chinese government censors tried to control discussions about the country’s economy this week.
