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My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power?

TIL That the entirety of Wikipedia is only ~100Gb and you can download it for offline use

In light of the recent Crowdstrike crash revealing how weak points in IT infrastructure can have wide ranging effects, I figured this might be an interesting one....

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Elon Musk says SpaceX and X headquarters moving to Texas, blames California trans student privacy law (www.cnbc.com)

Gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar for his sexuality returns home after 'deeply disappointing' sentence (www.advocate.com)

If buying it isn't owning it... (lemmy.world)

Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor (arstechnica.com)

Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco (www.wired.com)

Colorado HOA calls cops on kids’ lemonade stand to get ‘illegal’ operation shut down (www.independent.co.uk)

4 hottest days ever observed raise fears of a planet nearing ‘tipping points’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

Since last July, Earth’s average temperature has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels....

Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech (www.notebookcheck.net)

cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/3524209...

Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices (www.tomshardware.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18426215

Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said (techcrunch.com)

Proton isn’t reinventing the wheel with this crypto wallet. But it’s another solid option for people looking to create a crypto wallet for the first time. However, cryptocurrencies tend to be a polarizing topic, so let’s see if Proton Wallet doesn’t hurt Proton’s brand image in the future....

Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination (www.theguardian.com)

Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’...

What scientific discovery, which could actually happen in the next 5 years, would have the most impact in our lives in you opinion?

Think about it (lemmy.world)

Patreon will have to use Apple's in-app purchase system or be removed from the App Store (www.engadget.com)

Let them know what they are missing! (lemmy.world)

What actually happened. (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Just Switch Over

World of Goo 2 released [buy from website, devs get 100% of the earnings] (worldofgoo2.com)

Why is it on Epic and not on Steam?...

Amazon forced to recall more than 400,000 products that could kill, electrocute people | Instead of recalling the products, Amazon sent messages to customers that "downplayed the severity" of hazards (arstechnica.com)

Amazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found with more than 400,000 products that third parties sold on its platform....