Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers in the U.S. to strike on Valentine’s Day for fair pay (www.nbcnews.com)
Islamophobia is endemic in the UK and getting worse, says Yousaf (www.standard.co.uk)
Humza Yousaf became the first Muslim head of state in western Europe in 2023 when he was appointed First Minister of Scotland.
The (short) story of how the SSH port became 22. (www.ssh.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9907720...
'Hamas a future partner for peace': says Northern Irish First Minister (www.jpost.com)
Michelle O’Neill, the recently elected First Minister of Northern Ireland, said on Thursday that Hamas will eventually be regarded as the future partner for peace in the Middle East in an interview on LBC....
She...she made a dildough (sopuli.xyz)
US congress receives bill to review South Africa relations following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case (mg.co.za)
Ukraine claims Russian forces using Starlink internet service (www.cnn.com)
Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence claims it has confirmed the use of Starlink satellite communications by Russian forces in occupied areas....
My first attempt at ahi katsu! (lemmy.zip)
Still don’t quite know what I’m doing when it comes to fish but it wasn’t bad! I’m gonna try salting it ahead of time next, this was a frozen filet and I was hungry lol
He tried his best, just couldn't succeed (sopuli.xyz)
Investigators will try to find out why a private jet crashed onto a Florida interstate and killed 2 (apnews.com)
The Federal Aviation Administration said the Bombardier Challenger 600 jet had five people were aboard when the crash happened around 3:15 p.m. Friday near Naples, just north of where the interstate heads east toward Fort Lauderdale along what is known as Alligator Alley....
WhatsApp Will Introduce 'Third Party Chats' Support Soon: Here's Why (www.gadgets360.com)
Helldivers 2’s concurrent Steam player record is PlayStation Studios’ highest yet (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Bard becomes Gemini: Google launches their most powerful LLM, Ultra 1.0 (blog.google)
Today we’re launching Gemini Advanced — a new experience that gives you access to Ultra 1.0, our largest and most capable state-of-the-art AI model. In blind evaluations with our third-party raters, Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0 is now the most preferred chatbot compared to leading alternatives....
YSK those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)
Many have microSD cards soldered to their circuit boards.
Disney is investing $1.5b in Epic Games and building a new universe connected to Fortnite | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Chinese Ships Get Insurance Edge Navigating Red Sea (gcaptain.com)
Inside the shifting plan at Elon Musk’s X to build a new team and police a platform ‘so toxic it’s almost unrecognizable’ (fortune.com)
[fake-news] Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages (www.tomshardware.com)
Fear them tooth brushes.
Linux Sucks - a contrarian view from the lemmy hivemind about why linux sucks (discuss.tchncs.de)
discuss.tchncs.de/c/antilinux...
Fleshy Pods (slrpnk.net)
TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)
The most obvious example is the TikTok Shop. The company is pushing its eCommerce so hard you hear about it more than any other topic on the app, both in ads and organic videos from creators hoping for a share of the profits. The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular...
Major Xbox influencers pull support over multiplatform rumours (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York (www.propublica.org)
“Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from the pockets of hardworking New Yorkers by unscrupulous employers, often targeting the workers with the fewest resources to fight back,” Rosenthal said. “If businesses refuse to do the right thing and pay their workers what they are owed, New York State should hold them to...
Sam Altman says ChatGPT should be 'much less lazy now' (www.businessinsider.com)
Sam Altman says ChatGPT should be ‘much less lazy now’::ChatGPT users previously complained that the chatbot was slacking off and refusing to complete some tasks.
PSA: Update your docker installation. Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Snyk team has found four vulnerabilities collectively called “Leaky Vessels” that impact the runc and Buildkit container infrastructure and build tools, potentially allowing attackers to perform container escape on various software products....