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

Opera is testing letting you download LLMs for local use, a first for a major browser (www.zdnet.com)

Discord to start showing ads in-app this week - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

In early March 2024, Discord revealed that “sponsored quests”, or ads would be added to the platform to help “support game developers” through the popular chat app....

Trump Launches Another Attack on Judge's Daughter, This Time with Photos (www.rollingstone.com)

The former president accused Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter of presenting a conflict of interest, possibly violating a gag order...

Russia supplies oil to North Korea as UN sanctions regime nears ‘collapse’ (www.ft.com)

Russia has started supplying oil directly to North Korea in defiance of UN sanctions ⠀...

Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab (tech.slashdot.org)

NBC Fires Ronna McDaniel Amid Election Lies Backlash (www.huffpost.com)

A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click (www.mikrobitti.fi)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13400226...

Southern States Pushing Forward With Bills Ending Legal Recognition For Trans People (www.erininthemorning.com)

8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death (newsroom.heart.org)

As a big fan of IF, I find this really depressing.

Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order (www.theguardian.com)

New documents detail inner workings of Society for American Civic Renewal, group with an emphasis on Christian nationalism...

Man devoted to eliminating squatters taking over Southern California homes (ktla.com)

BitTorrent is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic (torrentfreak.com)

VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits (spectrum.ieee.org)

As a precaution, houses of worship in New Jersey are getting bleeding control kits (whyy.org)

They encourage all worshipers to understand how to stop the bleeding if someone is shot or stabbed.

Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records (www.tomshardware.com)

Connor Trinneer And Dominic Keating On “Disrespectful” ‘Enterprise’ Finale And Eagerness For More Star Trek (trekmovie.com)

Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood (theconversation.com)

Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...

What the Cursor? - An introduction to the new hyprcursor format (blog.vaxry.net)

Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores (theconversation.com)

From the article:...

Russia’s Starlink use sparks probe into SpaceX compliance with US sanctions (arstechnica.com)

Democratic lawmakers are probing SpaceX over Russia’s reported use of Starlink in Ukraine, saying that recent developments raise questions about SpaceX’s “compliance with US sanctions and export controls.”...

Los Angeles PD wants to remotely access 10,000 public and private security cameras (boingboing.net)

U.N. report: ‘Convincing’ information Hamas raped, tortured hostages (www.washingtonpost.com)

A team of United Nations experts tasked with gathering information on sexual violence linked to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel found “reasonable grounds to believe” that some victims were sexually assaulted, including rape and gang rape, according to a U.N. report released Monday....

Reddit's Meme Stock Forum Users Threaten to Bet Against Its IPO (Bloomberg, via archive.today) (archive.is)

Reddit Inc.'s stock-trading enthusiasts made it a household name by backing companies that Wall Street wouldn’t. For Reddit’s own initial public offering, a group of them are about to flip the script....