Harvard University inaugurates Claudine Gay as school’s first Black president (www.cnn.com)
In a historic first, Harvard University inaugurated new president Claudine Gay on Friday, the first Black person and second woman to lead the university....
33 Amazon Japan workers halt deliveries over nonpayment of 'Prime Day' incentives: union (www.msn.com)
I am excited about all the changes coming to our DEs!
I like to watch videos published by Nick from The Linux Experiment. In the latest video he talks about the developments in the new Cosmic, The quality of life touches and polishing of KDE, and the apps coming to gnome (like snoop). It is all really cool and I can’t wait to try them all :)
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Oxford High School shooter will get life in prison, no parole, for killing 4 students, judge rules (www.cbsnews.com)
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager who killed four students at Michigan’s Oxford High School will be sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole, a judge said Friday....
iPhone users, what app do you use to browse Lemmy and what is the main reason you like it over others?
Massive police operation in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, after hospital shooting (www.dutchnews.nl)
Trolling chatbots with made-up memes (www.aiweirdness.com)
No not the bees (lemmy.world)
Senate leaders reach deal on short-term spending bill in push to avert shutdown (www.cnn.com)
With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House....
Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates—even more than an iPhone (arstechnica.com)
Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates—even more than an iPhone::Just about everything has leaked about the $699 Pixel 8 and $999 8 Pro.
U.N. report accuses Russia of 'widespread and systematic' torture in Ukraine - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A United Nations commission accused the Russian forces on Monday of "widespread and systematic" use of torture during its invasion of Ukraine, along with other war crimes, including purposely attacking civilians and non-military infrastructure.
Jojo's Bizarre (mis-)Adventure (lemmy.ml)
S Korea passes new law to protect teachers from bullying parents (www.bbc.com)
Teachers across the country have been protesting for weeks, demanding more rights in the classroom.
Tom (media.discordapp.net)
In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing (www.theverge.com)
In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing::US v. Google kicked off this week in the District of Columbia as the Justice Department and Google squared off over the dominant search engine.
Cordycep outbreak on aisle 2 (lemmy.film)
Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called (arstechnica.com)
Backyard lizard (lemmy.ca)
I moved to Seattle for a high-paying tech job. It turned out to be the loneliest time of my life. (www.businessinsider.com)
I moved to Seattle for a high-paying tech job. It turned out to be the loneliest time of my life.::After accepting a job at Amazon, Alexander Nguyen moved to Seattle, where he experienced a period of intense loneliness.
Covid cases reported on luxury cruise ship run aground in Greenland (www.nbcnews.com)
The operator of a luxury cruise ship that ran aground in Greenland with 206 people on board said Thursday at least three passengers have contracted Covid-19. The announcement followed a third failed attempt to free the cruise liner, after a fisheries research vessel attempted to pull the ship free at high tide on Wednesday....
Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion — Stability AI (stability.ai)
Stability AI introduces their AI model for creating audio and music. You can try it out now: www.stableaudio.com
Fairphone Keep Club: Sustainable Consumerism? (forum.fairphone.com)
As you may well know, Fairphone is a company that originally arose from a kickstarter campaign and makes phones that are as easily repairable, as sustainable and as fairly sourced as possible. They do have their issues, but compared to other big phone companies they’ve done a great job with this....
Rapper arrested on a murder charge after allegedly writing a song and making a music video about the crime (www.cnn.com)
A Nevada rapper was arrested on a murder charge after Las Vegas police said he “confessed to the murder in his (song) lyrics.”...
