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

Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use (www.theguardian.com)

Revelation of emails to Imperial College scientists comes amid growing concerns about security risk posed by academic tie-ups with China...

Apps that encourage/gamify walking?

Recently got Walk Scape which is a rune scape inspired game, but you do things by walking and just reads from the google analytics on your walking distance, so no gps and doesn’t care where you go, just that you walk. So like to mine something, you take 10 steps, and so on. Also really nice that if you complete your current...

Realme GT 6 shipment stolen in transit, delays launch in Spain (9to5google.com)

With a high-profile European launch just a few days away, the entire first batch of Realme GT 6 retail units has been stolen en route to Spain.

Classic free physics sandbox game The Powder Toy is now on Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)

store.steampowered.com/app/…/The_Powder_Toy/...

Song of the Day: Walk This Way by Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith (youtu.be)

Trump criticizes US aid to Ukraine, promises to “have that settled” if reelected (www.salon.com)

Stylus Noob

I setup a Dell Inspiron 2-in-1 for my Dad with Fedora 40 Kinoite. He wants a basic stylus but I don’t know anything about them. All the info I can find on the product page is saying that you can use an “active pen.” What am I looking for in a stylus to let me know if it’ll work? The Dell and Wacom stylus’ say they’re...

Alone in the Dark reboot studio Pieces Interactive shuts down (www.gematsu.com)

How social casinos leverage Facebook user data to target vulnerable gamblers (www.pbs.org)

Toss a coin to yer Witcher (lemmy.world)

A battle amongst Gods (lemmy.world)

Ubuntu App Center adds a UI for installing third-party deb files (github.com)

It's a merged pull request made by a member. Dunno which release it'd be in. This means people can double-click deb files to install again (with a warning)....

What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

Steadfast Self-Hosting, a book by Adam Monsen (selfhostbook.com)

I’ve not read this yet, just passing it along, as it looks really interesting....

I wish there was a sloth month

Just a month to celebrate relaxation and not obsessing over the grind. Festivals where people just bring camping chairs and chill together. Companies pandering by giving paid extra time off to employees. And so on.