Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. (lemmy.world)

Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall (www.gamescensor.com)

Poland bans sale of energy drinks to under-18s (notesfrompoland.com)

JD Vance opposes military aid, NATO membership for Ukraine. He's now Trump's VP pick (kyivindependent.com)

Vance is one of Trump’s most vocal supporters and an outspoken critic of U.S. aid to Ukraine....

How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals

I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying “woke”, “critical race theory”, ““grooming””, and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....

30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok (www.honest-broker.com)

Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar (windowscopilot.news)

The wealth of the 1% just hit a record $44 trillion (www.cnbc.com)

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Video Shows First Neuralink Patient Playing Mario Kart With His Mind (futurism.com)

Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)

Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)

Calling them “free-form ads,” Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....

UK-US air strikes launched against Houthis in Yemen (www.bbc.com)

Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. (open.substack.com)

What’s something on your mind lately that nobody else would understand?

Interesting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income.

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough (www.theregister.com)

‘Media outlets are erasing Sinead O’Connor’s Muslim identity’ (www.aljazeera.com)

As musicians, politicians and fans remember Sinead O’Connor, some Muslims are disappointed that the Irish singer and lifelong activist’s religious identity is not being highlighted in tributes....

Lemmy Babies of the Rexodus - it's been 9 months, how has Lemmy changed you?

How often had I overlooked women's contributions ? (lemmy.ml)

One of the comments reads : Actually, we will probably never figure out, was it man or woman. but I thought this comment of the professor was an interesting eye opener. mastodonapp.uk/

Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men (phys.org)

'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)

‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al…::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its...

A boomer retirement bomb is about to blow up America's economy (www.businessinsider.com)

The great baby-boomer retirement wave is upon us. According to Census Bureau data, 44% of boomers are at retirement age and millions more are soon to join them. By 2030, the largest generation to enter retirement will all be older than 65....

Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital (www.theverge.com)

The 18-year-old Lapsus$ hacker who played a critical role in leaking Grand Theft Auto VI footage has been sentenced to life inside a hospital prison, according to a report from the BBC. A British judge ruled on Thursday that Arion Kurtaj is a high risk to the public because he still wants to commit cybercrimes....