Olympic officials try to crush U.S. probes of China doping, threaten Salt Lake Games (www.npr.org)
In a shocking move on Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee moved to crush U.S. inquiries into a Chinese sports doping scandal, by threatening to reject Salt Lake City’s bid to host the Winter Games in 2034....
Oh jeez (lemmy.world)
Chinese students arrested over drone footage of U.S. aircraft carrier (www.newsweek.com)
Three Chinese students are under investigation over footage captured by a drone of a United States aircraft carrier and naval facilities in South Korea in June, local police said on Wednesday....
[draws pistol with malicious intent] (lemmy.world)
Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] (9to5google.com)
Election Brownie
Pliny on canvas, 30" by 40"
That’s 76cm x 102cm for folks not using freedom units.
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers (arstechnica.com)
Sudan’s plea to Elon Musk’s Starlink: Please don’t shut off our internet. (www.analystnews.org)
Good game soundtracks?
I’ve been looking for some more instrumental music to listen to while working, besides putting FF and Stardew on loop.
Btw (lemmy.world)
City Students to Get Free, 24-Hour OMNY Transit Cards. (www.thecity.nyc)
unsee this (lemmy.world)
North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on US hospitals. (www.voanews.com)
The Parable of the Boy Who Cried NATO (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Bad news for universal basic income. (reason.com)
Media Bias/ Fact Check.
Tennessee woman gets over 3 years in prison for blocking clinic access during protest (abcnews.go.com)
A Tennessee woman was sentenced Wednesday to over three years in prison for using threats and violence to interfere with the operation of a New York City reproductive health center in the early days of the pandemic in 2020....
1/3 of all nations on Earth now face some form of US sanctions. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Emails are hard (lemmy.world)
Thanks for the information though.
Game Dependency Graph for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
…wordpress.com/…/game-dependency-graph-monkey-isl… (this is OC and that is my own blog]
Google DeepMind’s AI systems can now solve complex math problems. (www.technologyreview.com)
SEC Charges Virginia Engineer with Orchestrating $30 Million Offering Fraud. (www.sec.gov)
What's with all the hate for Chinese phones?
I get that Huawei, or ZTE are not a good idea for network infrastructure, and that phones for people in governments, military, large corps and research environments, should be vetted, but for average Joe? Many Chinese manufacturers don’t have close ties to the government, and any non Chinese phone that you can buy also has...