I choose to believe (slrpnk.net)
Made this pic in Dalle
‘Cheaper than beer’: Laos meth prices plummet as Myanmar chaos fuels trade (www.aljazeera.com)
Front-line workers say methamphetamine pills are being sold for as little as $0.25 each.
Google, Meta, TikTok defeat Austria’s plan to combat hate speech (arstechnica.com)
Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs (techcrunch.com)
‘Let Me Tell Them Goodbye Before They Get Killed’: How eSIM Cards Are Connecting Palestinian Families – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Magisk v26.4 Released (github.com)
[MagiskBoot] Don’t pad zeros if signed boot image is larger...
A huge number of companies still think they're missing out on AI | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release (www.phoronix.com)
LXQt 1.4 debuted today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Qt desktop environment that was formed years ago as the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects....
TIL: There is a community on Lemmy where people share Weird and Oddly Specific (music) Playlists (lemmy.world)
Samsung reportedly partners with AMD, Qualcomm to bring FSR to Galaxy S24 - SamMobile (www.sammobile.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2859143 (!samsung)
Portland expected to pay $300k to settle 2020 police brutality lawsuit by protester (www.oregonlive.com)
The Portland City Council is expected to approve spending $300,000 to settle an August 2020 lawsuit filed by a man who alleged Portland police officers assaulted him during a Black Lives Matter protest, fracturing two bones in his arm.
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated (www.memri.org)
Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: “Everything we do is justified.”
Thousands of Palestinian Workers Have Gone Missing in Israel (jacobin.com)
Sean Strickland says quiet part out loud on UFC fighter pay, implies UFC censored him (www.mmafighting.com)
Some of the most successful fighters in the world might make $30k-$60k in their entire career. All the meanwhile UFC has been shown to use monopolistic tactics to hold the market and rob the fighters.
iLeakage attack steals emails, passwords from Apple Safari (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Israel demands UN chief resign over Hamas attack comments (www.bbc.co.uk)
By David Gritten BBC News...
Russian forces simulate nuclear strike as upper house rescinds ratification of test ban treaty (apnews.com)
Russia’s military conducted a simulated nuclear strike in a drill Wednesday overseen by President Vladimir Putin, hours after the upper house of parliament voted to rescind the country’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban....
How copyright drives Internet fragmentation, and why it is hard to fix (walledculture.org)
'I went through hell:' Newly released Hamas hostage describes kidnapping from kibbutz and captivity (www.cnn.com)
Yocheved Lifshitz, one of two hostages recently freed by Hamas, has described her ordeal after being kidnapped by the Palestinian militant group in the brazen October 7 attack, saying she “went through hell.”...
New deadly bird flu cases reported in Iowa, joining 3 other states as disease resurfaces (apnews.com)
Two commercial turkey farms in Iowa have been hit by the reemerging highly pathogenic bird flu, causing about 100,000 birds to be killed to prevent the disease from spreading....
Dwindling fuel supplies for Gaza's hospital generators put premature babies in incubators at risk (apnews.com)
His life hinges on the constant flow of electricity, which is in danger of running out imminently unless the hospital can get more fuel for its generators. Once the generators stop, hospital director Iyad Abu Zahar fears that the babies in the ward, unable to breathe on their own, will perish....
Iran sentences 2 journalists for allegedly collaborating with US. Both covered Mahsa Amini’s death (apnews.com)
A court in Iran sentenced two journalists to up to seven years in prison for collaborating with the U.S. government and other charges, local reports said Sunday. Both women have been imprisoned for over a year following their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody in September 2022....
So, Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard. How will this affect the rest of the industry? (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control (www.wired.co.uk)
Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control::New research shows the number of deepfake videos is skyrocketing—and the world’s biggest search engines are funneling clicks to dozens of sites dedicated to the nonconsensual fakes.