Powerful earthquake kills 'at least' 296 in Morocco, govt says (www.reuters.com)
Malaysia rejects new China map claiming entire South China Sea (www.aljazeera.com)
Malaysia has rejected the latest edition of the ‘standard map of China’ that lays claim to almost the entire South China Sea, including areas lying off the coast of Malaysian Borneo....
Influencers are disgusted with Amazon's paltry $25-per-video endorsement offer | It looks like full-time Amazon UCG creators are getting a 90-percent cut in pay (www.techspot.com)
Influencers are disgusted with Amazon’s paltry $25-per-video endorsement offer | It looks like full-time Amazon UCG creators are getting a 90-percent cut in pay::undefined
An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban. Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex. (arstechnica.com)
An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban. Official: “It is simply not feasible to read every book” for depictions of sex.::Official: “It is simply not feasible to read every book” for depictions of sex.
Refugees overqualified and underpaid in Germany (www.dw.com)
Obada Hijjo has not had an easy time since he arrived in Germany four years ago. Trained as a policeman in Turkey, the 30-year-old Palestinian initially worked for the police in the West Bank. But, when a case he was involved resulted in a threat to his life, he and his wife were forced to leave the country. Now he is stranded...
The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos (futurism.com)
Grandma refused bus ride suffered horror injuries (www.bbc.co.uk)
This is a staggering story. This jobsworth closed the doors on her because she forgot her bus pass the week before. Despite knowing that she definitely has a bus pass because all pensioners in the UK get one. Just a total loss of humanity.
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
TIL in traditional Christian theology there are four sins "which cry out to heaven for vengeance" : murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages. (en.wikipedia.org)
nearly crushed me (stop.voring.me)
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Trump gag order expanded to cover attorneys after court gets hundreds of threats (www.rawstory.com)
U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates (www.cbsnews.com)
The Army has finished renaming nine installations that previously honored confederate generals with the redesignation Friday of Fort Gordon in Georgia to Fort Eisenhower....
Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources (abcnews.go.com)
Edge 118: updated on-page search may send data to Microsoft (www.ghacks.net)
Certificate to own car in Singapore rockets to $106,000 (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia punishes critical tweets with the death penalty or 45 years in prison (english.elpais.com)
Do we do Spooktober here? (beehaw.org)
iPhone 15 Pro has overheating problems (9to5mac.com)
You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys (www.neowin.net)
More questions than answers (sh.itjust.works)
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There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide (www.businessinsider.com)
There’s no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide::AI detectors used by educators to detect use of ChatGPT don’t work, says OpenAI.
Heirloom tomato and mozzarella salad with cheesy pancetta sourdough toast (lemmy.world)
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Russia’s lander experiences ‘emergency situation’ while approaching lunar surface (www.cnn.com)
The Luna 25 spacecraft reported an “emergency situation on board,” Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said on Saturday....
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ (www.cnbc.com)
Many company executives now regret their initial return-to-office plans, as 80% say they would have approached it differently if they understood employee preferences. While some firms are requiring more in-office time, citing collaboration needs, others are scaling back requirements due to retention issues. Successful companies...
Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | The digital assistant was first part of Windows Phone and now it’s being discontinued on Windows. (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | The digital assistant was first part of Windows Phone and now it’s being discontinued on Windows.::Microsoft has discontinued Cortana on Windows 11. The digital assistant no longer functions as a standalone app, years after Microsoft shut down its Cortana iOS and Android apps.
