Starfield's planets aren't all interesting, but they're not all "supposed to be Disney World" (www.vg247.com)
You'll probably find that a lot of planets in Starfield are pretty boring, but Bethesda says that's kind of the point.
TIL the FBI struggled to hire hackers because of a rule that required applicants to have not smoked marijuana for the past 3 years (www.nydailynews.com)
Abortion rights have won in every election since Roe v. Wade was overturned (www.nbcnews.com)
Abortion has been on the ballot in seven states since June 2022. In each instance, anti-abortion groups have lost.
Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux (tadeubento.com)
After a few conversations with people on Lemmy and other places it became clear to me that most aren’t aware of what it can do and how much more robust it is compared to the usual “jankiness” we’re used to....
We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri (9to5mac.com)
Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri::Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to…
Hyundai and Kia recall nearly 92,000 vehicles and tell owners to park them outside due to fire risk (apnews.com)
Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 92,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outside because an electronic controller in an oil pump can overheat and cause fires.
Update: Pushing back against the wave of bot accounts on Lemmy (sh.itjust.works)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/1823812...
Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing (www.msn.com)
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (www.theverge.com)
Archive.ph link
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related...
YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement. (www.engadget.com)
YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That’s a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.::Google has quietly increased the price of YouTube Premium by a significant $2 from $12 to $14, according to the updated signup page…
Netflix removes its basic tier in the US and the UK (techcrunch.com)
Nancy Pelosi's Portfolio Returned Over 700% In a Decade (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
According to the alternative data platform Quiver Quantitative, replicating Nancy Pelosi’s stock trades would have yielded returns exceeding 720% since May 2014.
Neil Gaiman Denies Sexual Assault Allegations Made by Two Women (www.rollingstone.com)
Neil Gaiman — the best-selling author whose work includes comic book series *The Sandman *and the novels Good Omens and American Gods — has denied sexual assault allegations made against him by two women with whom he had relationships with at the time, Tortoise Media reports....
Judge orders surprise release of Epstein transcripts (www.bbc.com)
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IRS plans to make its free tax filing program permanent (edition.cnn.com)
Police: Vandal spray paints ‘F--- Elon’ on 34 Tesla Cybertrucks in Fort Lauderdale (www.local10.com)
Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged. The owner parked the exotic cars in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale....
Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature is attracting controversy before even venturing out of preview....
Blind and deaf dog Teddy got lost in a neighbor’s yard. Police called to help him shot him dead (www.independent.co.uk)
Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind construction (www.bbc.com)
Believe it or not, no aliens were likely involved! Just some very smart humans and a massive amount of labor.
Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (www.pcgamer.com)
Scoop: U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel (www.axios.com)
STEAM starting to issue refunds for players over the 2h playtime limit due to PSN on Helldivers 2 (nitter.poast.org)
twitter’s link...