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Google Photos is preparing to add partner sharing shortcuts, auto-archive albums and reminders (thespandroid.blogspot.com)

cross-posted from !google

An excerpt from You Deserve A Tech Union on deskilling, automation, artificial intelligence, and unions (roadmapmag.com)

the possible titles for this were all bad so this is a wholesale invented title by me to summarize the contents of this link, which i think otherwise is interesting....

2,000 people are feared dead in flooding in eastern Libya after weekend storm, prime minister says (apnews.com)

radio free fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the universe (radiofreefedi.net)

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/432311...

China spy claims as Parliament researcher arrested (www.bbc.com)

Gas Agreement Between Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago Moves Forward Despite US Sanctions (orinocotribune.com)

Myanmar Junta sentences Photo journalist to 20 years in prison (myanmar-now.org)

DREAMM emulator for classic LucasArts games v2.1 out with Linux support (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here (huggingface.co)

Context: Falcon is a popular free LLM, this is their biggest model yet and they claim it’s now the best open model in the market right now.

[Reuters] Tesla sues Chinese firm over tech secret infringement -Chinese state media (www.reuters.com)

We need [Gen AI] literacy like media literacy (jamesg.blog)

Thoughts from James who recently held a Gen AI literacy workshop for older teenagers....

[OC] "Kohi" VS Code Theme (github.com)

I spend a great deal of my professional and personal life hacking away in VS Code, and I finally decided a few months ago to create a theme that appealed to me and matched the rest of my environment....

Spain: Anarchists Assemble Picket Lines For Ikea Dispute (popularresistance.org)

The company is systematically exploiting its workforce with non-payment of overtime, insufficient Personal Protection Equipment, blocking staff from going to their specialist doctor during working hours, among other deficiencies. And this is not the most serious thing that characterises FOLDECO’s board of directors or their...

ForgeFed is a federation protocol on top of ActivityPub for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. (forgefed.org)

China objects as US approves military aid to Taiwan under program aimed at sovereign nations (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/556548...

Wallace confirms resignation as UK defence minister in letter to PM Sunak (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2137339...

Egypt Planning To Drill 35 New Natural Gas Wells (menafn.com)

…the Nargis-1 exploration well […] holds about 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas…...

I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’ (www.404media.co)

A Fake Signal App Was Planted On Google Play By China-Linked Hackers (www.forbes.com)

Hackers who previously targeted Uyghurs evaded Google Play security checks to push a fake Signal app for Android. It uses a never previously-documented method to spy on the encrypted comms tool.

Greece wildfire declared largest ever recorded in EU (www.theguardian.com)

Eleven planes and helicopter from bloc sent to tackle fire that has burned more than 300 sq miles of land...

From botflies to eye worms, a brief history of rare parasites in humans (www.theguardian.com)

After a live roundworm was found in the brain of an Australian woman, we take a look at other unusual cases of parasites turning up unexpectedly and explore how worried we should be....

BRICS MATERIALS: the flourishing intra-BRICS oil trade (bne.eu)

Addition of KSA, UAE, Iran means share has doubled to 42% of crude oil output in 2022. "Saudi pricing oil exports to China and India in non-dollar currencies does not spell the end of the dollar as the international currency of choice,” says ING. Trade within bloc makes trade hard to sanction by West.