For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor (arstechnica.com)
Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.
Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches (news.sky.com)
Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches::The tool, which will monitor voice chat for any bullying and harassment, will be part of Modern Warfare III - the next game in the series - when it launches in November.
Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest (www.theverge.com)
5 family members found dead in Ohio home in apparent quadruple murder-suicide (www.nbcnews.com)
Five family members, including three kids, were found dead in an Ohio home Thursday evening in what police are calling a “domestic dispute that turned deadly,” according to a news release....
Police say University of South Carolina student fatally shot while trying to enter wrong home (apnews.com)
A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said....
Female soldiers in Army special operations face rampant sexism and harassment, military report says (apnews.com)
U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of “overtly sexist” comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units. The comments, it said, are “not outliers” but represent a common sentiment that women don’t belong on special operations...
Porn Is Illegal in Ukraine But That Might Be About to Change (www.kyivpost.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4808492...
StarLite Mk V is a Linux tablet with Intel N200, 16GB RAM and a keyboard cover - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move (www.wired.com)
6-year-old fatally shot by a 9-year-old, authorities say (www.nbcnews.com)
How the children obtained guns remains a part of the ongoing investigation, according to the Sheriff’s office.
Cheng Lei: Journalist held in China says she misses sunshine (www.bbc.com)
Twitter Exec Defends Restoring Account That Shared Child Sex Abuse Material (www.forbes.com)
Executives at X testified at an Australian Parliament hearing late Wednesday, defending the restoration of an account after it shared child sexual abuse material.
Just completed Undertale for the first time, this truly is something special. (beehaw.org)
Hey people!...
Academic body invalidates superconductor research results (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
Canada launches warning labels on each cigarette (www.bbc.com)
Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
Jasper aka Jazzy (lemmy.world)
Is she dead? (programming.dev)
The new Outlook may give Microsoft access to third-party emails and logins - gHacks Tech News (ghacks.net)
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage (www.theregister.com)
Does anyone know where I could get a phone inserted into my body? (Example below) (lemmy.zip)
Linux Kernel 6.6 Officially Released (9to5linux.com)
Linux kernel 6.6 is now available for download with Intel shadow-stack, new RISC-V features, new drivers, better hardware support, and more.
‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue (variety.com)
‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue::Big streaming services like Hulu, Max and Peacock are relying more heavily on ‘pause ads’ that show up when a user halts a binge session
US accuses China of pattern of ‘dangerous’ air force manoeuvres against military planes (www.theguardian.com)
Pentagon cites more than 180 incidents of aggression against US aircraft over the East and South China seas...
GOP donor known for racist tweet, American flag outfit dies in attempted murder-suicide (www.miamiherald.com)
A Republican activist who has been a reliable donor to Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — despite a racist tweet that put him on the outs with DeSantis’ predecessor, Rick Scott — shot a woman and then himself in the parking lot of a Palm Beach County restaurant, according to sheriff’s deputies....
Russia’s Avdiivka offensive is failing, says top Ukrainian officer (www.theguardian.com)
A top Ukrainian commander has claimed that Russia’s biggest offensive in months – involving tanks, thousands of soldiers and armoured vehicles in an attack on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka – is failing, as he admitted Kyiv’s own attempts to advance in the south were proving “difficult”....
