A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI (www.vox.com)
A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI::A list of authors and entertainers are also suing the tech company for damages that could total in the billions.
Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character” (trekmovie.com)
A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years (www.techradar.com)
A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones
Why docker
Hi! Question in the title....
People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?
All our coffee is served with two shots by default. We’re not some fancy coffee shop, just a motorway service station that makes coffee to go. We have some regulars who order a decaff with an extra shot. I explain thats going to have three shots total, and they’re happy with it....
Why is installing a different OS/Custom Rom on phones a huge hassle?
Unlock bootloader (depending on vendor, you have to do an online verification),...
Not noice (sh.itjust.works)
Germany mulls reintroduction of compulsory military service (www.dw.com)
Today was Christmas Day. Did you leave the house? Which establishments were open today? Which were closed?
The first minds to be controlled by generative AI will live inside video games (www.cnbc.com)
Cher Says The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Can Go Fuck Itself (www.stereogum.com)
The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn. (www.nytimes.com)
Communities across the U.S. are fueling a secondary arms market by giving seized and surrendered guns to disposal services that destroy one part and resell the rest....
Still haven't found the right amount of mind bleach for this one... (lemmy.ca)
I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now?
i get it’s a legitimate safety thing to some degree and to certain people but have you considered that i cannot leave my place right now which is why i paid 40 dollars you ess dee for taco bell. which was a legitimate safety thing for myself as well, frankly....
'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla (www.vice.com)
‘Your Turn’: United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla::After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it’s seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.
"I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020 (boingboing.net)
If you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?
Buyers worldwide go for bigger cars, erasing gains from cleaner tech. EVs would help. (abcnews.go.com)
The negative impact on the climate from passenger vehicles, which is considerable, could have dropped by more than 30% over the past decade if not for the world’s appetite for large cars, a new report from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative suggests....
Argentina's Milei says shutting central bank 'non-negotiable' (www.reuters.com)
[misleading headline?] Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads (www.flatpanelshd.com)
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps (www.gizmochina.com)
Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next? (www.nationalgeographic.com)
US destroyer shoots down drone flying toward it in the Red Sea, defending itself in uneasy waters (www.businessinsider.com)
Did racist use the "biological advantage" argument when Black athletes started competing alongside white athletes?
Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological...