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Austrian heiress giving away $36.6M because the government won't tax her inheritance (www.cbc.ca)

Marlene Engelhorn says that when she inherited her grandmother’s multimillion-dollar fortune in 2022, she “wanted to be happy about it.”...

The US failed to track more than $1 billion in military gear given Ukraine, Pentagon watchdog says (apnews.com)

Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. (startrek.website)

Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles (www.techspot.com)

Mark Zuckerberg raising cows by feeding them dry fruits and beer, says he wants to create world's best beef (ground.news)

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s next passion is cows and beef. And to start with his passion, he has said that he is raising cows on an island in Hawaii by feeding them macadamia nuts and beer. The idea is, according to Zuckerberg, to create best beef in the world. Critics call cattle-raising project on Hawaii ranch ‘a...

Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe (www.nbcnews.com)

In several posts on X, Musk claimed without evidence that diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives put airline customers in danger....

With the creation and use of ChatGPT and Bard, I bet ELI5 community and subreddit have had less posts, because people can just ask them instead.

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% (www.phoronix.com)

Researcher looking for cat owners to aid novel study on cat vocalisations (it's quick and simple!) (lemmy.world)

Hello everyone! I am looking for cat owners keen to help out with a research project, I am studying cats to see whether we can estimate their age just by their voices. 🗣️🐈 For this, I need data. Lots of it....

Red Cross declares nationwide emergency due to critically low blood supply (www.cbsnews.com)

The American Red Cross has declared an emergency blood shortage, saying patients are at risk of not getting lifesaving transfusions....

Hope that clears things up (lemmy.today)

What's a profession thay everyone needs?

So, I’m looking for a career change since I’m probably going to move to a city of approx 200K people. What’s something that everyone needs either it’s simple or more complex?...

NATO Directorate Warned Azov Remained ‘Fanatics,’ Recruits Acquired Canadian-Made Rifles. (www.readthemaple.com)

ChatGPT could soon replace Google Assistant on your Android phone (www.androidauthority.com)

Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar to climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better.

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older...

Modders are gonna have a field day (lemmy.world)

More Americans can now get insulin for $35 (www.cnn.com)

More Americans with diabetes will get a break on their insulin costs in 2024....

Let's play Spot the Cold Solder. (lemmy.ca)

Nextcloud Performance Improvements

Nextcloud seems to have a bad reputation around here regarding performance. It never really bothered me, but when a comment on a post here yesterday talked about huge speed gains to be had with Postgres, I got curious and spent a few hours researching and tweaking my setup....