Penguin Random House and bestselling authors sue Iowa over school book-banning law (www.nbcnews.com)
The nation’s largest publisher and several bestselling authors, including novelists John Green and Jodi Picoult, are part of a lawsuit filed Thursday challenging Iowa’s new law that bans public school libraries and classrooms from having practically any book that depicts sexual activity....
Super Metroid (assets1.ignimgs.com)
It’s being a couple of weeks since I’ve finished this game and it does not get out of my head....
Rate my patient games (startrek.website)
Wait until you hear about a character named Jar Jar Binks! It's well worth the wait. (pxscdn.com)
The smart home tech inside your home is less secure than you think, new Northeastern research finds. (news.northeastern.edu)
The smart home tech inside your home is less secure than you think, new Northeastern research finds.::A team of researchers discovered vulnerabilities in smart home devices made by big technology companies like Google.
North Korea says its new spy satellite photographed White House, Pentagon (www.reuters.com)
After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: we can watch you too.
The Felo-Scottish War (lemmy.ml)
South Korea: Man gets 14-month jail term for praising North in poem (www.bbc.com)
Police warning parents about new iPhone feature (thehill.com)
Piracy even when I can get it legally
This is my small rant against the ‘features’ that big streaming services provided vis a vis the convenience of pirating the same thing....
1 imitation whipped cream tub with a side of pie, please. (lemmy.world)
Hits close to home (lemmy.ca)
Just chill, youre harshing my ethnic cleansing (lemmy.ml)
It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox (www.androidpolice.com)
It’s never been a better time to switch to Firefox::Firefox’s extended add-on support for mobile is coming with version 120, a good reason to switch to the browser permanently.
Poor doggo (lemmy.world)
Tough life (lemmy.ml)
YouTube limits Video Viewing for Ad blocker Users (samrome58.substack.com)
Google discussed teaming up with Tencent to buy Epic Games (www.tweaktown.com)
young voters say social media to blame for divisions in the u.s (thehill.com)
A Quinnipiac University poll asked U.S. registered voters to select one of four options to blame for the divisions in the country. Overall, 35 percent blamed social media, 32 percent blamed political leaders, 28 percent blamed cable news channels and only 1 percent blamed other countries.
Super secret (lemmy.ml)
Surveillance footage shows Hamas bringing hostages into Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7 (www.timesofisrael.com)
Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral (arstechnica.com)
Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral::“We observe the sophisticated Homo sapiens engaging in the ritual of hydration.”
Sam Altman’s ouster at OpenAI exposes growing rift in AI industry (www.washingtonpost.com) Japanese
Questions remain about what spurred the board’s decision to oust Altman, but growing tensions became impossible to ignore as Altman rushed to make OpenAI the next big technology company.
me📧irl (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)
alt texttweet by @Grace_Segers: “Me, writing an email: I’m using an exclamation point so you know I’m friendly and excited! But now I’m using a period so that you know I’m not crazy. Here’s another sentence with a period as a buffer, proving my normalness. Thanks so much!”