1984 by George Orwell (sh.itjust.works)
I don’t really know how to write this one as I am not really one of those who report on books....
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists” (arstechnica.com)
Rep. Adam Schiff calls on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race (www.nbcnews.com)
Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows (www.404media.co)
US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining (insideclimatenews.org)
The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose (theintercept.com)
A BIPARTISAN SAMPLING of the world’s greatest perpetrators and enablers of political violence has rushed to condemn political violence following the shooting attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday....
SSDs with 1000-layer memory chips expected in 2027: ultra-fast 20TB NVMe drives for $250 (www.tweaktown.com)
Despite war and sanctions, Russia becomes a high-income economy (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
Despite sanctions by Western countries against Russia due to the Ukraine war, the country has become a high-income economy from an upper-middle income economy. In its latest rankings, the World Bank has promoted the Russian economy to the top income category.
Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution" (www.mediamatters.org)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/11105567...
Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government (www.theguardian.com)
TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners (medium.com)
Outrage as China hospital charges patient fee for sitting down on a chair while receiving an intravenous infusion as health authority says fee is in line with regulations (www.scmp.com)
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Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google." (arstechnica.com)
Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads, making it at least the second time in as many months the widely used ad platform has been abused to infect web surfers....
'Jack him up on Mountain Dew!' GOP lawmaker floats wildest Biden debate conspiracy yet (www.rawstory.com)
Steam announces game recording beta (store.steampowered.com)
Paris wants an AC-free Olympic Village. Team USA and others aren't so chill with it (www.npr.org)
‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives (gizmodo.com)
X will soon limit the ability to livestream to Premium subscribers (9to5mac.com)
Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Article textNewly-restructured Swedish conglomerate, Embracer Group, will leverage AI models to bolster game production. As noted in Embracer’s annual report, the company has adopted a new AI policy package it claims has the capability to “massively enhance” its production process by “increasing resource efficiency,...
It's been 16 days since Ukraine began striking targets in Russia with Western weapons and nuclear war still hasn't broken out yet (sh.itjust.works)
This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2 (pointieststick.com)
Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to help pay Sandy Hook debt as judge decides Infowars’ fate (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets and was still deciding on his company’s separate bankruptcy case. The decision could determine the future of his Infowars media platform, as Jones owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School...
Framework open sources the 3D CAD design files for its modular 16 inch laptop (liliputing.com)
DeSantis ‘freedom fund’ Pac targets abortion and marijuana ballot initiatives (www.theguardian.com)
Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races...
