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databag: A tiny selfhosted federated messenger for the decentralized web. (github.com)

Just a hint for people searching a tiny selfhosted messenger with encryption and apps for iOS and android.

Mortgage demand shrinks as interest rates hit the highest level in nearly 23 years (www.cnbc.com)

Mortgage interest rates just hit a level not seen since the year 2000. As a result, mortgage demand is now sitting near a 27-year low....

Looks like Reddit is removing the ability to opt out of personalized advertisements. (reddit.com)

Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Holograms All the Way Down" (www.startrek.com)

This one was written by Star Trek: Prodigy’s Aaron J. Waltke....

Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN (www.ign.com)

Capcom president Harushiro Tsujimoto claims that the prices of video games need to increase to meet ballooning development costs.

Teacher busted after students find her meth at family fun night: police (www.foxnews.com)

Carbon Capture Tech Hype Is Fizzling Out, IEA Says (gizmodo.com)

Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results (www.searchenginejournal.com)

Google is coming under scrutiny after people discovered transcripts of conversations with its AI chatbot are being indexed in search results....

FCC to reintroduce rules protecting net neutrality | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

Earth's sixth mass extinction is underway and "rapidly accelerating," study warns (www.axios.com)

Earth's sixth mass extinction is already happening — and it is rapidly accelerating, researchers warned in a study out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.

X will make audio and video calls a premium subscriber-only feature (techcrunch.com)

Archive link: https://archive.ph/jFcSY...

Facial recognition technology jailed a man for days. His lawsuit joins others from Black plaintiffs (apnews.com)

California bill to have human drivers ride in autonomous trucks is vetoed by governor (apnews.com)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state....

Exclusive: Biden aides in talks with Vietnam for arms deal that could irk China (www.reuters.com)

Vietnam is also actively in talks with Moscow over a new arms supply deal that could trigger U.S. sanctions, Reuters has reported.

Army Corps of Engineers to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater a day as saltwater intrusion threatens New Orleans-area drinking water (www.cnn.com)

The US Army Corps of Engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday....

Major Polluters U.S. and China Not Invited to Speak at UN Climate Ambition Summit (www.ecowatch.com)

I'm doing my part (lemmy.zip)

Migrants' DNA is fueling a massive expansion of the FBI's genetic database (www.motherjones.com)

Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data (mashable.com)

Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data::undefined

Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)

A record number of Australians enroll to vote in referendum on Indigenous Voice (www.npr.org)

The referendum would enshrine in Australia's constitution an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The Voice would advise on policies that impact the nation's most disadvantaged ethnic minority.

South Korea says it ‘will not stand idly by’ if North Korea receives Russian help on nuclear weapons (www.cnn.com)

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol warned on Wednesday that his country and its allies “will not stand idly by” if North Korea receives Russian help to boost its weapons of mass destruction – just days after the leaders of the two nuclear-armed nations held a closely watched summit....