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‘Corrupt as hell’: Clarence Thomas faces fresh calls to resign after more billionaire gifts revealed (www.independent.co.uk)

Congressional Democrats have pushed for ethics reform legislation, efforts publicly rejected by Samuel Alito

Android 14 Beta 5 (android-developers.googleblog.com)

With the official release of Android 14 only weeks away, today we’re bringing you Beta 5, the last scheduled update in our Android 14 beta program. It’s the last chance to make sure your apps are ready and provide feedback before non-beta users start getting Android 14. To enable you to test your applications on devices...

[OC] My dad used to collect toilet paper of all colours (jlai.lu)

The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos (futurism.com)

Hillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida rules (www.tampabay.com)

The decision is aimed at better performance on state tests and avoiding sexual content found in some of the Bard’s work.

1,000% increase in dark web threat actors targeting macOS (www.accenture.com)

Based on research across established dark web forums, threat actors are targeting macOS, with exploits trading for millions of dollars

Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

How Social Media Apps Could Be Fueling Homicides Among Young Americans (www.propublica.org)

Neighbors say a Chicago man charged with killing an 8-year-old girl was upset over noise (apnews.com)

A Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder after witnesses say an 8-year-old girl riding a scooter was fatally shot by someone upset over noise.

‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects? (www.theguardian.com)

‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects?::It’s revolutionising building – but could AI kill off an entire profession? Perhaps not, finds our writer, as he enters a world where Corbusier-style marvels and 500-room hotels are just a click away

"Barbie" makes history as film surpasses $1B in box office sales (www.axios.com)

'It's the first film soley directed by a woman to ever cross $1 billion in global box office sales.'

X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account (arstechnica.com)

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Infinity for Lemmy is now available on the Izzysoft F-Droid Repo (apt.izzysoft.de)

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Academic body invalidates superconductor research results (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

IRS vows to digitize all taxpayer documents by 2025 (arstechnica.com)

gluetun: VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers (github.com)

Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it (arstechnica.com)

Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it::“We’re seeing more people coming back daily than I’d expected,” Zuckerberg said.

How the US Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World (web.archive.org)

“The US Commerce Department has played booster and concierge to the firearm industry, even as America’s mass shootings horrify the world and gun-crime rates rise in many of the importing countries.”...

Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show (www.theguardian.com)

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says::Alphabet’s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday.