Sheep munch 100 kilos of medical cannabis in flood-hit Thessaly (www.ekathimerini.com)
“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry”
UAW justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they? (apnews.com)
It’s been a central argument for the United Auto Workers union: If Detroit’s three automakers raised CEO pay by 40% over the past four years, workers should get similar raises....
In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing (www.theverge.com)
Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company (torrentfreak.com)
Taiwan tells Elon Musk it is ‘not for sale’ after latest China comments (www.theguardian.com)
Reproach comes as Taiwan says it has detected a large number of Chinese aircraft crossing into its air defence identification zone...
Escaped Pennsylvania killer captured after nearly 2 weeks on the run (www.nbcnews.com)
AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1. (www.businessinsider.com)
An iPhone belonging to a staffer at a Washington-based civil society organization was hacked remotely with spyware created by Israel’s NSO Group. (financialpost.com)
China orders government workers to stop using iPhones amid heightened tensions with US (www.scmp.com)
A handful of Chinese ministries have told employees to stop using Apple’s iPhones at work, citing national security risks amid heightened geopolitical tensions with the United States, according to several people familiar with the matter....
Danish cloud host says customers 'lost all data' after ransomware attack | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Both CloudNordic and Azero said that they were working to rebuild customers’ web and email systems from scratch, albeit without their data....
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te... (newrepublic.com)
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te…::Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and...
The best decision YouTube ever did. (lemm.ee)
‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say (www.vice.com)
Texas Revamps Houston Schools, Closing Libraries and Angering Parents (www.nytimes.com)
As part of a state takeover plan, libraries in underperforming schools are becoming spaces for disruptive students to watch lessons on computers.
San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill (finance.yahoo.com)
Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)
You can play Starfield on PC and Xbox even if you only buy it once (www.pcgamesn.com)
Over 20,000 Wagner troops killed, 40,000 wounded in Ukraine: Prigozhin-linked channel (www.politico.eu)
ASUS will manufacture and develop new Intel NUC mini PCs (www.engadget.com)
In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack (arstechnica.com)
Family shares updates on Bruce Willis's dementia (news.sky.com)
Bruce Willis’s daughter Tallulah has spoken about her father’s “really aggressive” dementia and why it is so important for her family to be open about it....
Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images (www.computerworld.com)
Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images::But the fight may not be lost as the court allowed the artists to claim copyright infringement against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DevianArt, on workpieces that the artists had filed a copyright for.
British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million. (www.engadget.com)
British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million.::The British Museum is digitizing its entire collection of more than eight million pieces, at a total cost of over $12 million. This move was announced after the museum experienced a theft back in...