The Community Pushing AI-Generated Porn To 'the Edge of Knowledge' (www.slashdot.org)
Xbox adopts an eight-strike suspension policy | Players who strike out won't be able to use Xbox's social or multiplayer features for an entire year. (www.engadget.com)
Turns out that technology is NOT harmful to kids (www.techdirt.com)
Classic case of “If the research doesn’t support your position, lie like a rug.”
iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Feature Action Button, USB-C, Face ID, and More (www.macrumors.com)
Any Open-Source RCS apps yet?
Are there any apps that support RCS that aren’t made by Google or a crappy cellular provider (ie: bloatware Verizon apps)?...
India joins rush to renewables, but its rural solar systems fall off grid (www.washingtonpost.com)
A cautionary tale for a world racing into renewables: The large majority of mini-grids in India no longer work, an environmental group found....
Inside the strange, secretive rise of the 'overemployed' (www.businessinsider.com)
Inside the strange, secretive rise of the ‘overemployed’::He was working three full-time jobs at Meta, IBM, and Tinder. His bosses didn’t know.
LinkedIn says spy firm targeted Hungarian activists, journalists before 2022 election (www.reuters.com)
A New Immersive Experience in Dublin Invites Visitors to Step Into the Pages of a Storied Medieval Book (news.artnet.com)
360-degree projections will tell the story of the Book of Kells, a 9th-century illuminated manuscript.
Court documents show Google offered Netflix a deal to stick with Play Store billing (www.androidpolice.com)
Court documents show Google offered Netflix a deal to stick with Play Store billing::Court documents show Google tried to cut a deal with Netflix in 2017
First live birth of a chimeric monkey using embryonic stem cell lines (www.cell.com)
Epic v. Google: everything we’re learning live in Fortnite court (www.theverge.com)
Ever received a parcel notification that seemed a bit off? 📦 (discuss.tchncs.de)
Would you pick up on this if you were in a hurry and happen to be expecting a package? (imagine it’s in English 😅) What immediately catches your eye?
Tesla data breach blamed on ‘insider wrongdoing’ impacted 75,000 (www.scmp.com)
Tesla data breach blamed on ‘insider wrongdoing’ impacted 75,000::undefined
Alleged SK hynix-Made NAND For Apple Discovered Hiding In Cheap SSDs (www.tomshardware.com)
Canada wildfire evacuees say Facebook's news ban 'dangerous' in emergency situation (www.cbc.ca)
Canada wildfire evacuees say Facebook’s news ban ‘dangerous’ in emergency situation::The ongoing fight between tech company Meta and the federal government over subsidizing news publishers means links to news sources are being blocked on sites like Facebook and Instagram. Wildfire evacuees in the Northwest Territories say...
How Drones Are Helping Demine Ukraine (gizmodo.com)
Excel’s esports revolution is coming back to ESPN this week (www.theverge.com)
The contestants in an event like the Excel World Championship are given what’s called a “case,” which could be almost anything. One case from last year’s competition required each player to figure out all the possible outcomes and associated rewards for a slot machine; another required modeling how a videogame character...
The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable (trstringer.com)
Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results (arstechnica.com)
Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results::Google says DMCA fraudsters filed copyright takedown notices for 600,000+ URLs.
Omegle is shutting down notorious video chat service as scrutiny grows (www.theverge.com)
Open-Source-Gaming-Tournament – Play and support Open-Source-Games! (open-source-gaming-tournament.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/7876878...
Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts (www.vox.com)
Critics renew calls for a TikTok ban, claiming anti-Israel bias on the platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Critics renew calls for a TikTok ban, claiming anti-Israel bias on the platform::Critics are renewing calls to ban TikTok, arguing that the most popular content related to the Israel-Hamas war on the app has a pro-Palestinian slant.
Cruise halts SF service as Calif. DMV shuts down driverless car permits (www.sfgate.com)
Cruise halts SF service as Calif. DMV shuts down driverless car permits::Driverless car firm Cruise is forced to suspend its service in San Francisco as the California DMV calls out safety issues.