Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital (www.theverge.com)
I wish someone would flush already... (lemmy.ca)
So why did a jury find that Google held a monopoly but Apple didn’t? (www.theguardian.com)
“Google has taken great pains to appear more open than Apple, licensing the Android operating system to third parties like Samsung and allowing users to install apps via other methods than the Play store. Apple does neither. When it comes to exclusivity, Apple has become synonymous with “walled garden” in the public...
Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery (www.seattletimes.com)
A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday....
Google develops selfie scanning software ahead of porn crackdown (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Federal judge denies cattle industry’s request to temporarily halt wolf reintroduction in Colorado (apnews.com)
A federal judge has allowed the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado to move forward in the coming days by denying a request Friday from the state’s cattle industry for a temporary delay in the predators’ release....
Mind-reading AI can translate brainwaves into written text: Using only a sensor-filled helmet combined with artificial intelligence, a team of scientists has announced they can turn a person’s thou... (www.newscientist.com)
Mind-reading AI can translate brainwaves into written text: Using only a sensor-filled helmet combined with artificial intelligence, a team of scientists has announced they can turn a person’s thou…::A system that records the brain’s electrical activity through the scalp can turn thoughts into words with help from a large...
Republicans to meet allies of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán on ending Ukraine aid (www.theguardian.com)
Allies of Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán will hold a closed-door meeting with Republicans in Washington to push for an end to US military support for Ukraine, the Guardian has learned....
France passes law protecting cocks' right to crow in the countryside (www.euronews.com)
The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area.
Elon Musk considers reinstating Alex Jones' X account, backtracking on prior decision (www.cnbc.com)
Darling runs macOS software directly without using a hardware emulator (www.darlinghq.org)
Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux, not an emulator, it’s like wine but for MacOS apps.
23andMe says hackers gained access to data of about 6.9 million people (www.nbcnews.com)
Genetic testing company 23andMe said Monday that hackers were able to access the data of about 6.9 million people, far more than the company previously acknowledged....
GTA VI won't launch on PC (www.businesswire.com)
Grand Theft Auto VI is coming to PlayStation® 5 computer entertainment systems and Xbox Series X|S games and entertainment systems in 2025.
twitter is so broken ... it returns a 404 when you share links (beehaw.org)
If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview… but not for a while now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in....
Repurposing your laptop trans rights style 😎🏳️⚧️ (discuss.tchncs.de)
Pet wolf hybrid attacks, kills 3-month old baby in Alabama (www.cbsnews.com)
Proud Boy Jan. 6 defendant who shot at law enforcement is sentenced to prison (www.nbcnews.com)
Nathan Pelham got into a standoff with law enforcement this year after he learned he was being charged in connection with the Capitol attack.
Deere must face US farmers' 'right-to-repair' lawsuits, judge rules (www.reuters.com)
André 3000 Surpasses Tool For Longest [song length] Hot 100 Hit Of All Time (www.stereogum.com)
André 3000 has surpassed Tool for the longest Hot 100 hit of all time. As Billboard reports, his track “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” charted at #90 on the Hot 100 this week — it’s the first song on his new instrumental album New Blue Sun. It...
Kansas School Demands Eight-Year-Old Native American Student Cut Hair to Attend (nativenewsonline.net)
School administrators in Kansas this September violated an eight-year old Native American boy’s cultural and religious freedoms when they required him to cut his long hair to conform to school policy, according to the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU)....
Why several big-box stores have ditched their self-checkouts | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
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US existing home sales fall to lowest level in more than 13 years (www.theguardian.com)
The median existing house price increased 3.4% from a year earlier to $391,800, the highest for any October.
"The Next Subnautica" aims to deliver underwater survival spooks in early 2025 (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Charlie Kirk defends Elon Musk's antisemitism: "Some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans" (www.mediamatters.org)
For more on Musk's remarks, see here and here.
leng - a fast DNS server with adblocking, built for self-hosting (github.com)
A few months ago I went on a quest for a DNS server and was dissatisfied with current maintained projects. They were either good at adblocking (Blocky, grimd…) or good at specifying custom DNS (CoreDNS…)....
