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For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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US military leaders say Tuberville is aiding US adversaries with hold on military nominations | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

Greener Alternative To Lithium-ion Battery (www.silicon.co.uk)

Preacher learns that screeching into ears is a poor conversion tool (sh.itjust.works)

Rudy Giuliani "sealed his own fate" in legal loss: Constitutional lawyer (www.newsweek.com)

Mushroom pickers urged to avoid foraging books on Amazon that appear to be written by AI (www.theguardian.com)

Amateur mushroom pickers have been urged to avoid foraging books sold on Amazon that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence chatbots....

Two jokes in one (sh.itjust.works)

Navigation bar always ends up overlapping apps. Any way to prevent this? (sh.itjust.works)

So, I’m using a Pixel 4A, and almost daily, I end up having to reboot because the navigation bar overlaps the bottom of my apps or games, and rebooting is the only way I find to fix this....

X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training (stackdiary.com)

Here’s the kicker: based on these AI-assigned definitions in the updated terms, your access to certain content might be limited, or even cut off. You might not see certain tweets or hashtags. You might find it harder to get your own content seen by a broader audience. The idea isn’t entirely new; we’ve heard stories of...

Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up | There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon. (arstechnica.com)

Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up | There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon.::There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon.

AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine (arstechnica.com)

After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers (apnews.com)

Pennsylvania plans to end on Dec. 31 its longstanding contract with the nonprofit Real Alternatives, the first organization in the nation to secure significant state and federal subsidies to support anti-abortion counseling centers. Under the program, Real Alternatives distributed the state and federal funds to dozens of...

Volition (Saints Row developer) shuts down (arstechnica.com)

There goes my dream of an Agents of Mayhem sequel.

Reddit Taken To SF Court for Firing Worker With Anxiety: Lawsuit (sfstandard.com)

Reddit Taken To SF Court for Firing Worker With Anxiety: Lawsuit::A former Reddit staffer was fired for “poor performance” after taking three months of sick leave, a lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleges.

Millions of workers earning less than $55,000 could get overtime pay under Biden proposal (www.cbsnews.com)

The proposed rule would lift the salary threshold for overtime pay from $35,568 to $55,000.

Apple to Buy TSMC's Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023 (www.macrumors.com)

Apple to Buy TSMC’s Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023::Apple will receive all of TSMC’s first-generation 3-nanometer process chips this year for upcoming iPhones, Macs, and iPads, according to…

Racist Jacksonville shooter wore Rhodesian army patch, a symbol of white supremacy, law enforcement sources say (www.nbcnews.com)

The white gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest, law enforcement sources say, a reference that has been used before during white supremacist attacks....

CenturyLink left 86-year-old woman with no Internet service for a month (arstechnica.com)

China's economy in crisis, on the brink of collapse? (www.lemonde.fr)

Online Ratings Are Broken | Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data. (www.theatlantic.com)

Online Ratings Are Broken | Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data.::Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data.