What animal could you take in a fight? (lemmy.world)
China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total (www.ecowatch.com)
China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.
Pizza Hut franchises in California lay off all delivery drivers ahead of $20 minimum wage increase (www.sfchronicle.com)
YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. (www.androidauthority.com)
YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.
Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention (www.politico.com)
President Joe Biden will announce the creation of the first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention on Friday, fulfilling a key demand of gun safety activists as legislation remains stalled in Congress, according to two people with direct knowledge of the White House’s plans....
4-Year-Old Fatally Shot By Woman Who Was Teaching Her 'Firearm Safety,' Authorities Say (www.huffpost.com)
Warning: Article has detailed accounts of the shooting...
Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app....
Back in my day (lemmy.zip)
Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days. (www.businessinsider.in)
Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone
Logitech CEO Wants to Sell You a Subscription-Based 'Forever Mouse' (gizmodo.com)
During a recent episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber shed some possible insight into the company’s view on one of its most important products. Saying that “the mouse built this house,” Faber shares the planning behind a Forever Mouse, a premium product that the company hopes will be the last...
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...
Baltimore bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship (www.theguardian.com)
A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water....
Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈 (gs.statcounter.com)
Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com)
Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (www.404media.co)
Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore. (www.theverge.com)
Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint (forward.com)
Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with...
China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ (www.wsj.com)
Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family
The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third (www.theguardian.com)
With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free. (lemmy.world)
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Israel sharpens its tone to Spain: "The Inquisition is over. Those who harm us, we will harm them" (www.elnacional.cat)
Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)
A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.