Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable (www.404media.co)
US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official, not private acts (www.reuters.com)
Custom Linux Distribution just for Gaming (bazzite.gg)
Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris pre-installed, HDR support, BORE CPU scheduler for smooth and responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools for your gaming needs.
Old timers know (sh.itjust.works)
The US needs to build 2 million houses to revive the American dream of homeownership (www.businessinsider.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/BHsKJ
Texas asks people to avoid using their cars (www.newsweek.com)
Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help? (slrpnk.net)
Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be...
Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited (arstechnica.com)
Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch (www.pcgamesn.com)
Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO (www.techspot.com)
Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days (www.arenaev.com)
Thunderbird's New Rust Integration: The Future of Email Clients? (debugpointnews.com)
The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines (forum.paradoxplaza.com)
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And then you get hooked on it and start using it for real (sh.itjust.works)
Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening? (www.nytimes.com)
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/924278bf-d525-4611-85a6-467f376cbbab.webp...
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov (pluralistic.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14100831...
Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel (edition.cnn.com)
Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies (arstechnica.com)
Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. Why has this happened? The answer highlights a profound flaw in how decisions too often get made in our legal system: for-profit jail telecom companies realized that they could earn more profit from phone and video calls if...
Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)
Israel again massacres Palestinian civilians who had gathered to obtain humanitarian aid in Gaza (euromedmonitor.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/17439723...
Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)
It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....
As folks freeze to death in Milwaukee, Ohio pastor charged for offering shelter (www.jsonline.com)
Whose responsibility is it to protect unhoused when it's freezing outside? An Ohio pastor opened his church to the homeless and was charged by city.
US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn’t yet stopped ship attacks (apnews.com)
The rich now own a record share of stocks, about 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10% (www.axios.com)
New York governor vetoes bill that would ban noncompete agreements (apnews.com)
New York’s governor vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have banned noncompete agreements, which restrict workers’ ability to leave their job for a role with a rival business....
