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They thirst for wolf tit (lemmy.ca)

TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts (www.theguardian.com)

Earth is outside its 'safe operating space for humanity' on most key measurements, study says (apnews.com)

Coming back to a side quest you missed (lemmy.world)

NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals (www.insider.com)

NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals::The New York Police Department paid Voyager Labs more than $8 million in 2018. The company says it uses AI to analyze criminal behavior online.

It be like that (lemmy.ml)

My self-hosted home setup (programming.dev)

Dedicated wifi for automation allows me to have devices such as Xiaomi Vaccuum, or security camera not phoning home. OpenWRT with good firewall rules completely isolate my “public” containers/VMs from my lan....

Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says (www.latimes.com)

“In their zeal to collude with ICE, CDCR is not only targeting people who have served their time and are set to return home for detention and deportation but is also sweeping up U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, relying on racist assumptions and ignoring their own records,” the report states

Saudi Arabia: Man Sentenced to Death for Tweets (www.hrw.org)

TIL The first air conditioner was created not for cooling a room but to prevent humidity causing swelling pages and blurry prints in a printing press (www.smithsonianmag.com)

At the turn of the 20th century, humidity threatened the reputation of Brooklyn’s Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic and Publishing Company’s high-quality color printing. After two summers of extreme heat disrupted business and caused swelling pages and blurry prints, the printing company found that a nascent cooling industry...