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

TIL that African naked mole rat do not feel the sting of capsaicin (main component of chilies) and acids (link.springer.com)

Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy (www.propublica.org)

Women are less interested in AI than men, but using it would help them advance at work. (theconversation.com)

Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols (www.phoronix.com)

The ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 screen copy protocols build upon wlroots’ wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 with various improvements for better screen capture support under Wayland. These new protocols should allow for better performance and window capturing support for use-cases around RDP/VNC remote...

How to Get Wifi Signal Strength via CLI using nmcli on Fedora or Ubuntu (blog.benyamin.xyz)

Hello, I just want to share here. Hopefully it’s useful. Thanks

U.S. regulator proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts to protect consumers and stop election misinformation by phone (www.engadget.com)

Archived version...

Texas orders hospitals to collect data on undocumented migrants (www.bbc.com)

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered hospitals to gather data on the immigration status of patients, arguing Texas has had to “foot the bill” for the Biden administration’s border policies....

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive, has died at 56 (apnews.com)

Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died, her husband said. She was 56....

TIL that the trend of anime's signature large eyes started from mangaka Osamu Tezuka's works, who himself was influenced by Disney and Betty Boop cartoons, and fashion designer Jun'ichi Nakahara's wor (www.cbr.com)

TIL that the trend of anime’s signature large eyes started from mangaka Osamu Tezuka’s works, who himself was influenced by Disney and Betty Boop cartoons, and fashion designer Jun’ichi Nakahara’s works. Other factor such as a proverb involving eyes also played a part.

‘Traders in our blood’: Gazan pleads to be saved from Hamas ‘before the Jews’ (m.jpost.com)

There is also this shitterlink video related to this (sourced the news from worldnews), but I don’t speak Arabic and can’t say if this is a deepfake or not x.com/AlArabiya/status/1821912782033309739

Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)

Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies....

US ambassador confirms Mexican drug lord Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada was brought to US against his will (apnews.com)

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will no longer grant ‘Erotica’ points for taking photos of women [VGC] (www.videogameschronicle.com)

Personally I think they should’ve instead added erotica photos for all the NPCs to balance it out, but that’s just me 🤷

Gerasimov ignored warnings of Ukrainian troop buildup near border, Bloomberg reports (kyivindependent.com)

Sineng Electric launches world’s largest sodium-ion battery storage project (www.pv-magazine.com)

Venezuela's Maduro blocks X access in country for 10 days (www.reuters.com)

CARACAS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday took tensions with social media platform X and its owner Elon Musk to new heights, banning the platform in the South American country for 10 days amid furore over a disputed presidential election....

Introducing Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (www.raspberrypi.com)

We’re happy to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our second-generation microcontroller board, built on RP2350: a new high-performance, secure microcontroller designed here at Raspberry Pi....

Why We Need a Four-Day Workweek. (inequality.org)

ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests, Ending Site-Blocking Workarounds * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

Arizona prosecutors asked grand jurors not to indict Trump in state's fake electors case (apnews.com)

The Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 Republican supporters of Donald Trump who falsely claimed he won the state in the 2020 election wanted to consider also charging the former president, but prosecutors urged them not to, according to court documents filed this week....

The mother of three who sparked havoc with false claim about Southport suspect (www.thetimes.com)

While foreign agitators and far-right leaders leapt upon false claims the Southport attack suspect was an immigrant who had arrived in a small boat, the allegations can be traced to social media accounts closer to home....

Australia: Great Barrier Reef waters warmest in 400 years (www.dw.com)

Record water temperatures have led to more and more mass bleaching events along the Great Barrier Reef. Experts warn the reef is running out of time....

Introducing Decentralized Social Icons (wedistribute.org)

As we’ve been building out our site, we’ve wanted to showcase the icons of various projects and protocols. However, there’s been a real lack of any kind of icon font for that purpose…Mastodon is pretty much the only Fediverse project to be featured in FontAwesome, and the ForkAwesome project has been dormant for a long...