Senior Russian diplomat found dead in hotel in Turkey (the-news.com.ua)
More than 1,000 birds killed in one night after hitting the same Chicago building (www.cnn.com)
In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of “bird-friendly” building measures....
Arizona moves to end Saudi farm's controversial groundwater deals to grow, export alfalfa (www.azcentral.com)
Gov. Katie Hobbs’ administration on Monday announced two steps to stop a controversial Saudi Arabian company from using groundwater beneath state land in western Arizona to grow and export alfalfa....
Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall (www.reuters.com)
Tesla reported a decrease in total deliveries for the third quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter, delivering 435,059 vehicles....
Jets are now banned for corrupting the youth (lemmy.world)
New revelations from the Snowden archive surface (www.computerweekly.com)
A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1 percent of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum.
Unity Backpedals on Its Horrible Plan for Game Install Fees Amid Developer Backlash (gizmodo.com)
Unity Backpedals on Its Horrible Plan for Game Install Fees Amid Developer Backlash::Unity CEO John Riccitiello reportedly sold thousands of shares of stock in the weeks ahead of the fee announcement.
Penny Arcade sums up the Unity debacle in the first panel. (www.penny-arcade.com)
Today’s Penny Arcade is a near perfect commentary on the Unity debacle....
GNOME 45's Nautilus File Manager Gets a Modern Full-Height Sidebar Layout (9to5linux.com)
Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis (www.cnn.com)
Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region....
France to spend €200m destroying wine as demand falls (www.bbc.com)
The French government is allocating €200m (£171.6m) to destroy surplus wine and support producers....
Israeli police arrest and brand Palestinian with ‘Star of David’: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
aljazeera.com/…/israeli-police-arrest-and-brand-p…...
In Kenya labor dispute, workers who clean up toxic content on Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT for $3 an hour go to court (english.elpais.com)
US border agents habitually abuse human rights, report reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)
Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing::It’s been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world’s first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results
Netflix kills Basic plan, making its cheapest ad-free tier $15.49 (arstechnica.com)
I’ve been putting off having a local copy of the series and movies I watch because I still can access them quickly and cheaply enough in some streaming service, I think it’s time to plan ramping up my selfhosted setup.
Baby whales (lemmy.zip)
Families in Gaza wear ID bracelets in case of death (www.middleeasteye.net)
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I just finished DS9, and I'm sad to know that we'll never get anything like it again (sh.itjust.works)
It was so good, I am sad to have finished it....
Maybe even the rest of my life! (sh.itjust.works)
These Prisoners Are Training AI : In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. (www.wired.com)
Catastrophic shutdown averted as McCarthy sides with Democrats over far right in his own party (www.the-independent.com)
Republicans avoid shutdown by cutting deal with Democrats over their own party’s hardliners
Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday celebration moved to Saturday to avoid federal shutdown threat (apnews.com)
The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum is moving up festivities for the former president’s 99th birthday because of the threat of a partial federal government shutdown....
Canada has evidence linking Indian diplomats to killing of Sikh activist, media reports (www.theguardian.com)
The Canadian Broadcasting Company revealed communications gathered about murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” (arstechnica.com)
Yesterday, popular authors including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and George Saunders joined the Authors Guild in suing OpenAI, alleging that training the company’s large language models (LLMs) used to power AI tools like ChatGPT on pirated versions of their books violates copyright laws...
