Threat of Iranian attack on Israel is 'real and credible', says White House (www.bbc.com)
Tensions are high over the possibility Iran will retaliate for an air strike that killed senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks ago....
If Trump wins, he plans to free Wall Street from 'burdensome regulations' (www.reuters.com)
A second Trump White House would seek to sharply reduce the power of U.S. financial regulators, according to a review of public documents and interviews with people allied with the former president....
Guys will meet him and just say "hell yeah!" (lemmy.world)
You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website.
::shakes fist::
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? (locusmag.com)
Bots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothing (discuss.tchncs.de)
Also: FUCK SCRIBD AND EVERYONE THAT UPLOADS STUFF THERE!
The New Fairbuds: Nine things you need to know (www.fairphone.com)
Code quality can be measured in fucks per minute (sopuli.xyz)
Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular?
I feel like I see a fair amount of gaming laptops in the US but a majority of people seem to still game on desktop. I guess what I am looking for is a ratio of one versus the other otherwise a country like China might dominate on numbers alone....
Michael Bloomberg is worth an estimated $106 billion — but you won't find him on the Bloomberg rich list (finance.yahoo.com)
His wealth has roughly tripled from $35.5 billion in 2015, making him one of only 14 people worth more than $100 billion by Forbes’ reckoning. Excluding his fortune leaves a sizable hole in the Bloomberg index.
What characterizes feminine strength?
Strength of character. Stength of personality. Willpower. How does it manifest for a woman? Assume that a woman isn’t just a man with different bits.
What do I even do if I'm not working my job (programming.dev)
Ad-less Spotify on iOS
Hey-ho!...
How many of you are swarmed with Kong x Godzilla ads on YouTube?
I just opened youtube, and literally between every video on the home screen was the same adbanner for this stupid movie This was never this extreme for me. Is something similar happening for some of you, or is this just rng?
A disease that makes crops inedible would be so much worse than any pandemic
Home maintenance (lemmy.world)
How my wife sets up her new printer (lemmy.world)
She bought it for work reasons....
If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials?
This is assuming he’d have been found guilty for leading the Nazi government like others were....
Solid-state battery cell sets records, can offer over 1,300 mile range (electrek.co)
If this isn’t just corporate hype, this could be great for making smaller batteries, hopefully less resource intensive.
Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been?
From what I understand, a lot of knowledge was lost following the collapse of the Roman Empire as manuscripts were no longer being copied at the established frequency and information that had lost relevance (for certain jobs etc.) wasn’t being passed down....
Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? (wedistribute.org)
In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: “Why didn’t the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?”...
Introducing selfh.st/apps, a Directory of Self-Hosted Software (selfh.st)
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows (kotaku.com)
This data will probably only lead to more live service games. :|
Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor (www.theguardian.com)
Malaysian shop chain that sold ‘Allah socks’ targeted with petrol bombs (www.theguardian.com)
Three stores hit with molotov cocktails after pictures of socks deemed offensive by Muslims shared on social media...
