Toronto restaurant issues disclaimer after customer requests ketchup on schwarma. (www.blogto.com)
Android loophole exposes credit card details via NFC (9to5google.com)
GitHub: github.com/MrTiz/CVE-2023-35671
X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions (arstechnica.com)
The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’ (www.canarymedia.com)
Community solar and storage could help power California toward its goals for clean energy, grid reliability, energy equity and affordable housing — but only if regulators don’t allow the state’s biggest utilities to undermine it....
TIL The first recorded human death by robot was in 1979 when 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker Robert William was struck by an arm of a malfunctioning one-ton robot (www.wikiwand.com)
Williams was one of three operators of the parts retrieval system, a five-story robot built by the Unit Handling Systems division of Litton Industries. The robot was designed to retrieve castings from high density storage shelves at the Flat Rock plant. Part of the machine included one-ton transfer vehicles, which were carts on...
“We’re not ‘gatekeepers,’” Apple and Microsoft tell European Union (arstechnica.com)
ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. (www.eff.org)
Nearly 2 million excess deaths followed China's sudden end of COVID curbs - study (www.reuters.com)
My phone's POV when I'm still in bed and it auto switches from dark mode to light mode as "the sun comes up". (startrek.website)
Image Transcription: Gul Dukat with a bright light below him....
A 13-Year-Old Girl Is Apparently the New Leader of the JFK-QAnon Cult (lemmy.world)
Sudan 'spiralling out of control' as 1 million flee country, UN warns (www.reuters.com)
Google is desperate to sell Pixel Tablets, pushing ads via notifications (www.androidpolice.com)
I found this, I’m wanting to get a pixel tablet in about a week or so. Title just got me wondering a bit, though it’s probably just a little bit sensationalized
Political Leader Pedro Briones Shot to Death in Ecuador (www.telesurenglish.net)
Leader of leftist political party Citizen Revolution Pedro Briones murdered.
Palestinian Red Crescent says one killed, many wounded by Israeli gunfire at Gaza hospital (www.reuters.com)
Workers in Sweden Will Expand Strike Against Tesla (www.nytimes.com)
White House under growing pressure as Democrats demand Gaza ceasefire (scrippsnews.com)
AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers (www.bbc.co.uk)
The researchers behind the simulation say there is a risk of this happening for real in the future.
Rishi Sunak considers tax cut for top earners after byelection defeats (www.theguardian.com)
Tories may also reduce stamp duty in bid to win back voters and reduce pressure on PM, reports say
Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard (www.bbc.co.uk)
Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard::It comes after the UK approved the $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, which makes Call of Duty.
Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It (www.macrumors.com)
Badly [re-]titled ArsTechnica article warns of large multi-vector malware incursions in IoT and personal devices suspected to be Chinese in origin (arstechnica.com)
“In total the researchers confirmed eight devices with backdoors installed—seven TV boxes, the T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS, and MXQ Pro 5G, and a tablet J5-W. (Some of these have also been identified by other security researchers looking into the issue in recent months).”...
Baltimore CEO, 26, was killed by a repeat offender who should have never been on the street, officials allege (www.nbcnews.com)
In 2015, Billingsley was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with 16 years suspended, after he pleaded guilty to a first-degree sex offense, court records show....
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
Canada imposes 63 sanctions against Russian individuals, entities – another big blow for Putin’s Russia (ptv-news.com.pk)
Violent video games linked to verbal aggression and hostility but not physical aggression (www.psypost.org)
Violent video games linked to verbal aggression and hostility but not physical aggression::Violent video games are linked to higher levels of verbal aggression and hostility but not physical aggression, with narcissistic traits also correlating with aggressive behaviors, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology....
