Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music (www.slashfilm.com)
Working from the oral history in The Five Year Mission: The next 25 years, this is a fascinating deep dive that answers the question “How did a recycled cover of a 1998 song written for Rod Stewart, ‘Where My Heart Will Take Me’ aka ‘Faith of the Heart’ become the title music for Enterprise?”...
Hot air balloon pilot with cocaine in his system made a mistake that caused fatal crash, NTSB finds (apnews.com)
A mistake made by a hot air balloon pilot who had drugs including cocaine in his system caused a crash in 2021 in New Mexico that killed all five people on board, investigators have determined....
Inside a ‘Nightmare’ Lockdown at a Wisconsin Prison (www.nytimes.com)
Prisoners locked in their cells for days on end report walls speckled with feces and blood. Birds have moved in, leaving droppings on the food trays and ice bags handed out to keep inmates cool. Blocked from visiting the law library, prisoners say they have missed court deadlines and jeopardized appeals. Unable to access toilet...
I made a new lemmy community for bug bounties (lemmy.ml)
If you are a dev looking to crush some bugs and make some money or an OSS project that needs some dev help, hop on in! !bugbounties
But if you make it out alive after 36 months... (sh.itjust.works)
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Released with Updated Kernel, Graphics Drivers (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS also includes a new hardware enablement stack (HWE) composed of Linux kernel 6.2 and Mesa 23.0.4 (a sizeable update in itself)....
Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux // Self-host more with less hardware (tadeubento.com)
After a few conversations with people on Lemmy and other places it became clear to me that most aren’t aware of what it can do and how much more robust it is compared to the usual “jankiness” we’re used to....
Fast food spent millions fighting California bill holding them accountable for employee abuse (www.sacbee.com)
Fast food chains have spent millions this year on lobbying and advertising campaigns to stave off a bill that would hold corporate owners responsible for abuses that occur at franchise restaurants, according to a Sacramento Bee analysis.
Announcing the Tor University Challenge (www.eff.org)
Heatwave energy shortages would have been ‘much worse’ without solar power, experts say (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1175189...
Google Messages signs onto cross-platform encrypted group chat standard (www.theverge.com)
From the Article:...
Meet Window Snyder, the trailblazer who helped secure the internet and billions of devices (techcrunch.com)
“For 25 years, Window has been quietly changing the security industry with her pioneering work at Apple, Mozilla, Fastly, and Intel, among others....
Israeli navy opens fire at Palestinian fisherman in Gaza (english.wafa.ps)
GAZA, Thursday, August 3, 2023 (WAFA) – A Palestinian fisherman was Thursday injured after he was shot by Israeli navy forces as he was sailing in the Gaza Sea, sources confirmed.
Ukraine Attacks Russian Patrol Boat in Black Sea (www.telesurenglish.net)
The crew of the Russian ship managed to neutralize the Ukrainian aquatic drone before it did any damage....
Singapore hangs first woman in 19 years after she was convicted of trafficking 31 grams of heroin (apnews.com)
Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease capital punishment for drug-related crimes.
Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project (news.artnet.com)
A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world's citizens.
Apple already shipped attestation on the web(DRM), and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)
July heat near impossible without climate change (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/732714...
repsoted chatgpt meme (sh.itjust.works)
Posted on reddit by someone else in r/chatgpt. Found on youtube and im too lazy to hunt down the OP