The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5400607...
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (www.theguardian.com)
Rolling Stone Founder: Women, Black Musicians Not ‘Articulate Enough’ on ‘Intellectual Level’ to Feature in New Book (www.nationalreview.com)
U.S. school shootings hit another annual record high (www.axios.com)
Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It's the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week. (www.engadget.com)
Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It’s the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week.::Caesars Entertainment reportedly paid “tens of millions of dollars” to hackers who threatened to release company data.
I got this weird text. Do you guys think it's legit? (startrek.website)
Dutch Consumers Rally Against Google in Privacy Violation Claim (stackdiary.com)
The Consumers’ Association and the Foundation for the Protection of Privacy Interests have jointly filed a lawsuit against Google. The companies allege that Google has violated Dutch and European privacy laws, seeking an end to the company’s pervasive data collection and demanding compensation for users.
Modern-day cavalry (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
US solar power capacity to expand by record 32 gigawatts in 2023, report says (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. solar industry expects to add a record 32 gigawatts (GW) of production capacity this year, up 53% on new capacity in 2022 and helped by investment incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, a report published on Thursday showed....
‘Russian-only’ businesses in Thailand’s Phuket spark backlash (www.aljazeera.com)
A huge influx of Russians in Phuket is producing a backlash from locals, amid complaints of a booming Russian-only economy that covers everything from hair salons to taxi firms....
RethinkDNS got updated and it's amazing now (lemdro.id)
This is a secure dns and adblocker that has evolved into a great privacy app. Yesterday i noticed it has added support for Wireguard and TOR as well as proxy. The app comes with a customizable firewall. It means you can have secure dns combined with vpn/proxy and firewall in one app....
What's the most efficient way for peeling potatoes by hand? (sh.itjust.works)
Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and...
light in the dark (i.imgur.com)
i got a new flying camera the other day and i love it
We Analyzed Millions of ChatGPT User Sessions: Visits are Down 29% since May, Programming Assistance is 30% of Use - SparkToro (sparktoro.com)
Even if they have footies and a matching nightcap (startrek.website)
Much of Florida under state of emergency as possible tropical storm forms in Gulf of Mexico (www.nbcnews.com)
The National Hurricane Center says there’s a 70% chance the system will become a tropical storm by Monday and a 90% chance overall.
Google Keep’s Android app is getting formatting tools and version history - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Gamers. What was the game that got you into the hobby?
L.A. County sheriff’s deputy accused of trying to cover up DUI crash of fellow deputy (www.latimes.com)
An L.A. County sheriff’s deputy attempted to cover up the suspected DUI crash of a fellow deputy by pulling the allegedly drunken man from the patrol vehicle he’d wrecked and depositing him in another car to be driven away, prosecutors say....
faster, rudy (lemmy.world)
Live updates: Chandrayaan-3 successfully lands on Moon's south pole (www.hindustantimes.com)
Data center water usage remains hidden (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
We don’t know how much water data centers use. We just know it’s a lot