DisplayPort: A Better Video Interface (hackaday.com)
Late Stage Capitalism is when Finland bans symbols of communism. 'It's always East Europe against Communist Symbols', 'Banning the communist symbol makes you a nazi.', (sh.itjust.works)
Oh no… (sh.itjust.works)
Three found dead at remote Rocky Mountain campsite were trying to escape society, stepsister says (apnews.com)
The stepsister of a Colorado woman who was found dead along with her sister and teenage son at a remote Rocky Mountain campsite says the women fled into the wilderness after struggling to cope with societal changes in recent years, but they were unequipped to survive off the grid....
Nintendo Switch Successor Rumored To Have Been Shown To Press/Devs At Gamescom (twistedvoxel.com)
‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon (www.404media.co)
Many mushroom identification and foraging books being sold on Amazon are likely generated by AI with no human authorship. These books could provide dangerous misinformation and potentially lead to deaths if people eat poisonous mushrooms based on the AI’s inaccurate descriptions. Two New York mushroom societies have warned...
You’ve Heard of Quiet Quitting. Now Companies Are Quiet Cutting. (www.wsj.com)
Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype. Microsoft Is In No Rush to Fix It (www.404media.co)
A security researcher has found it’s possible to reveal a Skype app user’s IP address without the target needing to even click a link. Microsoft said the vulnerability does not need immediate attention.
US approves sending F-16s to Ukraine from Denmark and Netherlands (www.reuters.com)
“I am writing to express the United States’ full support for both the transfer of F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine and for the training of Ukrainian pilots by qualified F-16 instructors […] It remains critical that Ukraine is able to defend itself against ongoing Russian aggression and violation of its sovereignty” said...
The recession should probably be here by now (www.axios.com)
Apple now endorses Right to Repair legislation (www.404media.co)
I believe this is genuine support of the bill from Apple. Between Right to Repair winning in Massachusetts and the EU demanding compliance, I think Apple decided to flip the script. They would want to continue the illusion of customer friendly tech.
I'm over the Reddit posts / comments (lemmy.zip)
image is “distracted boyfriend” meme but vertically extended with AI out-painting. the distracted boyfriend, who is staring at the distracting girl’s legs, is labelled “reddit users who keep posting about reddit for some reason”, the girlfriend has the Lemmy mouse for a head and is labelled “Lemmy users”. The...
Vivek Ramaswamy Wants to Raise Voting Age to 25 (or have a "competency test" for people 18-25) (www.thedailybeast.com)
They are sooooooooooo fucking mad that gen z caused the GOP to get wrecked in the midterms lol. Absolutely fuming.
ULTRARAM will allow you to close your laptop, come back a thousand years later and pick up where you left off (www.techradar.com)
Sextape scandal reveals the ‘double life’ of Iran’s ultra-conservative authorities (observers.france24.com)
Social networks in Iran have been flooded with compromising footage featuring several known ultra-conservative officials engaging in homosexual activities. While homosexuality is punishable by death in Iran, the Iranian regime has attempted to deny the videos and cover up the scandals. We spoke to a former religious authority...
Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account (www.cnn.com)
The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, according to a newly unsealed court filing.
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)
The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
Alternative router firmware: what are DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato & ASUSwrt Merlin (binaryfork.com)
Just like the operating system on your computer & cell phone, you can change the software running on your router.
Afghanistan: Taliban burn musical instruments (www.dw.com)
Taliban’s religious police reportedly burned a number of musical instruments in the western province of Herat, according to a Sunday report by the state-run news agency Bakhtar....
Blizzard says that modding Diablo IV can result in a permanent account ban (www.techspot.com)
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Child Safety on Federated Social Media (purl.stanford.edu)
Not the best news in this report. We need to find ways to do more.
'Mystery company' buys $800M worth of land near Travis AFB, raising concerns about national security (abc7news.com)
Foreign LLC continues to acquire land in California critical to energy and national defense....
Paramount Plus just dropped its big Star Trek crossover episode early (www.theverge.com)
If you’re a Paramount Plus subscriber, you can go watch Boimler of Lower Decks geek out over the cast of Strange New Worlds right now.