Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer (www.theregister.com)
The Register www.theregister.com/…/richard_stallman_cancer/ #GNU #Linux
Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy (www.businessinsider.com)
Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy::Amazon is now sharing individual employee office attendance records in its latest move to force workers back to the office.
Nancy Pelosi: Democrat and ex-Speaker, 83, to seek re-election (www.bbc.com)
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
Former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell surrender in election subversion case (www.cnn.com)
Two of Donald Trump’s key election lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, surrendered Wednesday on charges in the Georgia election subversion case.
YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn't do that (www.theregister.com)
YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn’t do that::Web giant comes out swinging, says allegations ‘without merit’
The lazy, entitled millennials trope just doesn’t hold up. Whoopi in hot water again... (www.msnbc.com)
Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that millennials feel that raising a family and buying a house are out of reach because they simply aren’t working hard enough.
India suspends ‘all categories’ of visas for Canada citizens amid diplomatic row (www.independent.co.uk)
Indian foreign ministry claims ‘security threats’ after Trudeau’s explosive allegation of state-sponsored killing mean it cannot provide visa services safely...
Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft "Makeshift Biohazard Suits" (futurism.com)
On Friday, an international Delta flight bound for sunny Barcelona was forced to U-turn back to its starting point, Atlanta, for an exceedingly rare air travel horror: a passenger had suffered diarrhea throughout the plane’s aisle so extensively that completing the flight was deemed untenable....
HP Fails To Dodge Lawsuit Over Blocking Users From Using Their Printer Scanner If Ink Cartridges Aren’t Installed (www.techdirt.com)
A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore. (www.theverge.com)
USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked images - Macworld (www.macworld.com)
We’ve known that the iPhone is switching to USB-C for a while now, but there was always a possibility that Apple would stick with Lightning for one more year. Based on the latest leaked images, however, Apple is all-in on USB-C for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models, with USB-C parts for the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, and...
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter (www.androidauthority.com)
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung’s profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.
EU launches antitrust investigation of Microsoft over bundling Teams with Office (ec.europa.eu)
Trump and His Lawyers Dare NY Judge to Throw Him in Jail (www.rollingstone.com)
California orders bottled water firm to stop drawing from natural springs (www.theguardian.com)
BlueTriton, the company that owns Arrowhead brand, has been taking water from San Bernardino springs for more than 100 years...
US court rules Reddit doesn’t need to identify users who pirate movies (www.standard.co.uk)
US court rules Reddit doesn’t need to identify users who pirate movies::In future, we could see more cases where Hollywood goes after individual internet service providers and websites to detect online pirates
A group of researchers said they have found a way to hack the hardware underpinning Tesla’s infotainment system, allowing them to get what normally would be paid upgrades — such as heated rear seats (techcrunch.com)
The researchers will present their research next week at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas....
White House: Russia is executing soldiers who refuse to follow orders (www.reuters.com)
Boost for Lemmy now available! (play.google.com)
I can finally use my favorite ****it app to browse lemmy!!
Iraq switches off electronic billboards after hacker broadcasts porn to Baghdad passers-by (www.cnn.com)
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items
Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered' (www.livescience.com)
Researchers have predicted the collapse of the AMOC could happen any time between 2025 and 2095 — far sooner than previous predictions, although not all scientists are convinced....
Threads collects so much sensitive information it’s a ‘hacker’s dream,’ experts say (archive.today)
The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree....
Perspective (slrpnk.net)
