Tears Of Joy by Nate Good (song.link)
The race to become the world’s first document-free airport | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott (www.nytimes.com)
The company claimed that members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media coordinated to dissuade brands from advertising on X....
Royal Mint opens factory in south Wales to recover gold from e-waste (www.theguardian.com)
"Job Creation" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25439437
TIL about professional audience plants called Claquers (en.wikipedia.org)
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (www.404media.co)
My investigation reveals that the AI images we see on Facebook are an evolution of a Facebook spam economy that has existed for years, driven by social media influencers, guides, services, and businesses in places like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, where the payouts generated by this content, which seems...
Banjo Kazooie Meets Zelda: Wind Waker in N64 Mod (www.retronews.com)
This week, modder KurkoMods introduced an exciting new mod titled Banjo Kazooie: Bear Waker Deluxe, which brings Banjo and Kazooie into the realm of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker....
Healey on MBTA’s new tap-to-go payments: ‘You don’t have to hunt for change anymore.’ (www.bostonglobe.com)
Governor Maura Healey descended the flight of stairs at Park Street Station on Thursday morning to try the MBTA’s new “tap-to-go” payment method for buses and subways....
US, India, Russia, Japan are building out wind power much too slowly for climate change, report says (apnews.com)
Android 15 could bring the tablet taskbar to phones: Here's your first look at the 'tiny' taskbar (www.androidauthority.com)
Google is experimenting with bringing the tablet taskbar to phones running Android 15. This new version could be called the "tiny" taskbar.
As controversies and accusations swirl, YouTube’s biggest star, MrBeast, carries on (www.nbcnews.com)
UK police deploying 6,000 specially trained officers this week as more far-right disorder expected (apnews.com)
Is there a good reason why journalists keep calling this “far-right disorder” instead of what it really is: Fascist Terrorism?
A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time (bgr.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/15413291...
Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott'. (www.voanews.com)
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Weak spots in metal may have led to fatal Osprey crash off Japan, documents obtained by AP reveal (apnews.com)
A gear crack that led to a fatal crash of a V-22 Osprey last year may have been started by weak spots in a metal used to manufacture that part, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press....
US, China stage concurrent exercises in the South China Sea (www.dw.com)
The Philippines and three Western allies kicked off two days of operations in the South China Sea to uphold “the rules-based order.” China launched its own patrols around the Scarborough Shoal....
Google Search Promotes “Nudify” Apps (www.404media.co)
Searching for “undress apps,” “best deepfake nudes,” and similar terms on Google turns up “promoted” results for apps that use AI to produce nonconsensual nude images, despite a recent update to Google’s ad policies against this exact type of content and a recent effort to derank results for apps that produce...
Faced with free speech challenge, Nazareth council repeals ‘for sale’ sign ban (www.lehighvalleylive.com)
Findroid v0.15.0 is now available for update (github.com)
Findroid is third-party Android application for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series....
Czech Soldier Given Prison Term Over Looting In Ukraine's Irpen, Bucha. (www.rferl.org)
Introducing Decentralized Social Icons (wedistribute.org)
As we’ve been building out our site, we’ve wanted to showcase the icons of various projects and protocols. However, there’s been a real lack of any kind of icon font for that purpose…Mastodon is pretty much the only Fediverse project to be featured in FontAwesome, and the ForkAwesome project has been dormant for a long...
Artists are attacked in São Paulo during wall painting in support of Palestine (www.brasildefato.com.br)
Artists taking part in the [painting of the lateral part of a building on Consolação Street, São Paulo, suffered what they describe as a “Zionist attack” on Sunday afternoon