Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app (www.theverge.com)

I mean, he’s not wrong that the app wasn’t ready. Which begs the question why they didn’t un-roll-it-out. >.>

Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet (www.howtogeek.com)

'I was given a choice of bosses to sleep with': Life as a female paramedic in the UK (news.sky.com)

Katie* is one of three female paramedics who have shared their experiences of being “hounded” for sexual favours in return for passing training, getting a promotion or simply keeping their jobs....

Blinken Says Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Is ‘Inside the 10-Yard Line’ (www.nytimes.com)

Pelosi privately told Biden polls show he cannot win and will take down the House; Biden responded with defensiveness (www.cnn.com)

Jon Stewart Reacts to Trump’s Assassination Attempt: “We Dodged a Catastrophe” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Scientology is on the brink of killing an entire medical industry (www.thedailybeast.com)

By systematically targeting electroconvulsive therapy as part of its war on psychiatry, experts say Scientology could decimate a treatment that is “saving so many lives.”...

Reddit CEO Teases Paywalled Subreddits (www.pcmag.com)

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tears into his own network for airing Trump press conference without fact-check (www.mediaite.com)

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell tore into the major cable news networks, including MSNBC, on Thursday after they aired former President Donald Trump’s press conference live and didn’t “fact-check every lie” he told....

Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)

Conservationists Say 'Bizarre' Dead Bear Incident Proves 'Terrible' Judgment of RFK Jr. (www.commondreams.org)

MAGA outraged over Green Day's "severed" Trump head that's really just a mask (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Neil Gaiman: Three Women Accuse Author of Sexual Assault (www.rollingstone.com)

Following initial investigation in July, three more women come forward, including one who signed NDA following her experience with author...

Is Ismail Haniyeh's assassination a setback for Israel-Hamas peace talks? (www.firstpost.com)

The death of Haniyeh, a significant figure in Hamas’s political and diplomatic structure, has raised serious questions about the future of ongoing ceasefire negotiations. American officials had recently indicated that these talks, mediated by Qatar, the United States, and Egypt, were close to yielding a temporary ceasefire and...

AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense (www.nature.com)

Genie dislikes cloud (sh.itjust.works)

If I’ve learned anything from watching combat footage from Ukraine, it’s that shotguns are very effective at taking down drones. Who would’ve guessed the thing used to kill birds kills drones? (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Moon cave discovered that could one day house humans (www.bbc.com)

Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon....

Elon Musk draws fire for playing down impact of America’s atomic bombing of Japan: ‘Not as scary as people think’ (www.independent.co.uk)

Elon and Trump make the worst possible argument for nuclear power I have ever heard:...

Trump keeps calling Harris ‘Kamabla’ but nobody seems to know the meaning behind it (www.independent.co.uk)

Reddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the way (mashable.com)

Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’ (edition.cnn.com)

World’s billionaires see $134 billion swiped from their fortune overnight in share price bloodbath, led by Jeff Bezos (fortune.com)

My homelab had the stupidest outage ever (blog.thefossrant.com)

This morning I woke up to my phone using mobile data and my home assistant automations not working. Initially I thought it the power was out, but I could turn on the lights just fine. I checked my UniFi app and saw that the server was not connected to the network at all. This meant that the cable got unplugged, the switch...