EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? (lemm.ee)
As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)
The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....
Macron warns Europe ‘can die’ in alarmist speech on protectionism, geopolitical threats (www.politico.eu)
French President Emmanuel Macron warned Thursday that Europe faces possible demise if it does not take bold action to tackle U.S. and Chinese protectionism, amid serious geopolitical threats from authoritarian regimes....
Lubuntu 24.04 LTS Released! (lubuntu.me)
Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals (www.404media.co)
“Life-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,” the union wrote in the post. “For example, tell-tale signs of a patient’s condition, such as the smell of a patient’s breath and their...
The Latest | Israeli strikes in Rafah kill at least 5 as ship comes under attack in the Gulf of Aden (apnews.com)
Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people....
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations (fortune.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/30272690...
Greek Students are Set to Protest in Solidarity with their US Comrades Under Attack (www.thecanary.co)
Iran sentences rapper to death for supporting popular protests in his songs (www.bbc.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13393970...
Here's a first look at Bluetooth audio sharing in Android 15 (www.androidauthority.com)
Google Meet will let you transfer calls between web and phone with ‘Switch here’ (9to5google.com)
SaGa Emerald Beyond released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Jusant on GoG [20% off] (www.gog.com)
Torn - Online RPG game - Free text based game (www.torn.com)
Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes (www.nytimes.com)
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (arstechnica.com)
U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. official....
School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis (arstechnica.com)
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany' (www.pcgamer.com)
win10/11 zip files... how to _include_ empty folders? (moist.catsweat.com)
im trying to wrap up a minor process (small dir tree of crap) into a zip file for use by others, but microsoft has decided zips shouldnt include empty folders? wtf?...
Iran: Rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death, says lawyer (www.dw.com)
Popular rapper Toomaj Salehi wrote songs in support of the protest movement in Iran following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in 2022. He has been in jail for over a year....
Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (www.theverge.com)
Horses loose in London latest: Blood on road and smashed vehicles after horses tear through city - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Several soldiers and horses are injured after five threw off their riders near Buckingham Palace and raced through London.