Dallas mayor switches parties to join GOP (www.cnn.com)
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city....
Confused Automakers Braced for Strike at the Wrong Plants (theintercept.com)
Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton is acquitted of corruption charges at historic impeachment trial (apnews.com)
WHAT DO THESE BUTTONS EVEN DO?!? (loot.buckodr.ink)
Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army (interestingengineering.com)
Japanese ministers eat Fukushima fish to show it's safe after nuclear plant wastewater is discharged (apnews.com)
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers ate Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting Wednesday, in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that began last week....
Apple to Buy TSMC's Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023 (www.macrumors.com)
Apple to Buy TSMC’s Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023::Apple will receive all of TSMC’s first-generation 3-nanometer process chips this year for upcoming iPhones, Macs, and iPads, according to…
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead in plane crash (scrippsnews.com)
Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)
Not everything should be connected to the Internet (www.theverge.com)
This is a good example, why not all devices should be connected to foreign servers. Errors can happen everywhere. But it could end badly, if some Corporations make errors and creating trouble, which would otherwise not happen....
A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: 'It was all a lie.' (www.businessinsider.com)
A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: ‘It was all a lie.’::The lawsuit alleged Salesforce retaliated against the executive after raising concerns about the product claims.
Florida officials tell state schools to teach AP Psychology 'in its entirety' (abcnews.go.com)
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. has instructed Florida school officials to teach College Board’s AP Psychology course “in its entirety,” according to a letter obtained by ABC News from the state Department of Education.
‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the...
Texas troopers told to push back migrants into Rio Grande River and ordered not to give water amid soaring temperatures, report says (www.cnn.com)
Emails shared with CNN by the Texas Department of Public Safety detail a trooper-medic expressing concerns to a supervisor over the inhumane treatment of migrants along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas.
[NEWS] Important update about the campaign against browser-levelcensorship in France (SREN bill) (imgur.com)
This was sent out by Mozilla today via email, fighting the recent SREN bill proposed by France ✊...
Israel-Palestine war: Israel set to ban Al Jazeera after attorney general approval (www.middleeasteye.net)
Google Allegedly Pays Over $18 Billion a Year to Be Apple’s Favorite Search Engine (gizmodo.com)
Users dodge A.I. filters to generate pictures of pop-culture characters performing terrorism (kotaku.com)
Catnip (lemmy.zip)
Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (www.theguardian.com)
X makes cuts to disinformation and election integrity team (www.nbcnews.com)
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has slashed the number of people on its disinformation and election integrity team just weeks after it said it was hiring for new positions to help it guard against foreign interference....
Return to the office? These workers quit instead. (news.yahoo.com)
Return to the office? These workers quit instead.::When Rowan Rosenthal heard about Grindr’s return-to-office mandate during a virtual town hall meeting in August, anxiety, confusion and anger set in. The principal product designer lived within a 25-minute bike ride from the company’s Brooklyn office but instead was required...
French agency says the iPhone 12 emits too much radiation, tells Apple to withdraw it (abcnews.go.com)
China Decides iPhones Pose a National Security Risk (www.pcmag.com)
Employees at some Chinese ministries must stop using iPhones before the end of September.