T-mobile gets FTC approval to buy Mint mobile
news.bloomberglaw.com/…/t-mobile-wins-fcc-approva…
A New Pacific Arsenal to Counter China (www.nytimes.com)
Since the start of his administration, President Biden has undertaken a strategy to expand American military access to bases in allied nations across the Asia-Pacific region and to deploy a range of new weapons systems there. He has also said the U.S. military would defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion....
Russian deputy defence minister charged with ‘particularly large scale’ corruption (ptv-news.com.pk)
Oh no (programming.dev)
Baby girl dies after being delivered from Palestinian mother killed by Israeli airstrike (www.cbc.ca)
A baby girl delivered from a Palestinian woman who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah on Saturday has now died, according to her family....
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up encampment on UCLA campus (abc7.com)
Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers (www.cnn.com)
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...
Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? (arstechnica.com)
SAND LAND released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
M'sia finds parasitic worms in China canned sardine (tnp.straitstimes.com)
Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
Debian Server keeps failing install Abkhazian
ThSince last Sunday, I’ve been trying to install Debian 12 as a server OS on a Dell XPS 8900. I’ve seemingly been so close and yet so far. I’ve gotten 2 errors repeatly. One is one I can’t avoid, the other one I can....
'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' (www.pcgamer.com)
Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
accidentally posted this in world news before bcs i forgot about the no internal US news rule by accident...
Kyiv evacuates children hospital due to attack threat (kyivindependent.com)
Kyiv authorities announced on April 26 an urgent evacuation of two hospitals, including a children’s one, saying that they were at a risk of being targeted in an air attack....
Macron Says Europe Can No Longer Rely on US for Its Security (www.bloomberg.com)
Alex Honnold climbing a mountain without ropes. (files.catbox.moe)
US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio (www.theguardian.com)
Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat (canonical.com)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS delivers the latest Linux 6.8 kernel with improved syscall performance, nested KVM support on ppc64el, and access to the newly landed bcachefs filesystem. In addition to upstream improvements, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has merged low-latency kernel features into the default kernel, reducing kernel task scheduling delays....
That same classic rock (sh.itjust.works)
