Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

How Google's Pixel 8 Pro Will Change Smartphones Forever (www.forbes.com)

extended update service to 7 years...

I wish Android 14 inspired as many app updates as iOS 17 did - 9to5Google (9to5google.com)

Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy (www.businessinsider.com)

Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy::Amazon is now sharing individual employee office attendance records in its latest move to force workers back to the office.

Flashback - Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money' (www.cnn.com)

Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)

Japan says one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above as nation turns gray (edition.cnn.com)

Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement (www.eurogamer.net)

Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement::Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night’s hugely controversial announcement it …

Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)

Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.

Fact check: Biden falsely claims he was at Ground Zero 'the next day' after 9/11 (www.cnn.com)

He did it three times in a single speech last month – falsely claiming to have witnessed a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh in 2022 (he actually visited the site more than six hours after the collapse), falsely claiming his grandfather had died just days prior to his own birth at the same hospital (his paternal grandfather died...

The US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India at the G20 (www.theguardian.com)

Despite his lip-service to democracy and human rights, Biden keeps embracing autocrats and would-be autocrats

Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)

Natal conference, to be held in Austin in December, promoted on far-right podcast circuit and set to host self-described eugenicists...

Supplier Caught Distributing Fake Parts for World’s Top-Selling Jet Engine (www.thedrive.com)

They invest in Black women. A lawsuit claims it’s discrimination. (www.washingtonpost.com)

Brianna Wise-Riley was working an administrative job with the Fulton County Superior Court when her manager gave her a great idea. Noting the food trucks parked near their office, her boss said: What if a nail salon could bring a manicure to you?...

Secret Service Agents Were in Contact With Far-Right Oath Keepers - A new report reveals members of the Secret Service were in communication with the group’s radical leader, Stewart Rhodes (newrepublic.com)

Xitter Tanks (lemmy.world)

Ward Sutton Art

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/9WPwx...

Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump (www.cnn.com)

Rudy Giuliani is staring down hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions amid numerous lawsuits in addition to the new criminal charges – related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election.

Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence (karawynn.substack.com)

Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.

Brazil’s Lula slams UN over war in Ukraine (www.laprensalatina.com)

After rebranding, X took @x from its original Twitter owner and offered him merch (apple.news)

Gene X Hwang knew his days on Twitter as @x were numbered....

Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/795697...

DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery (www.washingtonpost.com)

GOP presidential candidate draws renewed criticism after suggesting slavery helped African Americans develop skills such as being a blacksmith...

Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week (9to5mac.com)

According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.

'I'm supposed to be dead' says Trump after assassination attempt (www.bbc.com)

Speaking as he prepared to board a flight to the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is expected to be confirmed as the party’s candidate for president, Mr Trump said he now had a “chance to bring the country together”....