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Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads (odysee.com)
Odysee, a decentralised YouTube alternative focused on free speech, is officially ending the serving of ads on the platform, starting today. The post:...
Anti-trans Texas pastor arrested after paying undercover cop for sex (www.friendlyatheist.com)
U.S. startup develops 28%-efficient perovskite-silicon tandem solar module (www.pv-magazine.com)
Wall Street headed sharply lower again after Japan's Nikkei index tumbles to worst loss since 1987. (www.voanews.com)
Hamas’s leader is dead, Iran vows revenge: can anything stop all-out war in the Middle East? (www.theguardian.com)
If Iran’s newly elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, was hoping for a honeymoon period after his inauguration last week, he must be sadly disappointed. Less than 12 hours after Pezeshkian was sworn in, an explosion, reportedly caused by a remotely controlled bomb, shook an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound in...
Snowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone else
Petition to the EU to stop killing games is at 125k signatures [1 million, or 1000k, required: already 1.25/10 is done, despite poor coverage from youtube community] (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)
Home taping is killing music, 1981 (libranet.de)
(Where I first found this)...
Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/20181716...
KOSA is dead! (US) (www.fightforthefuture.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/20332183...
Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children? (www.nytimes.com)
It’s probably not selfishness, experts say. Even young adults who want children see an increasing number of obstacles....
Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription (arstechnica.com)
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber recently discussed the possibility of one day selling a mouse that customers can use “forever.” The executive said such a mouse isn’t “necessarily super far away” and will rely on software updates, likely delivered through a subscription model....
Police recruit who lost both legs in ‘barbaric hazing ritual’ sues Denver, paramedics and officers (apnews.com)
DENVER (AP) — A police recruit who had to have both of his legs amputated after losing consciousness and repeatedly collapsing during fight training at Denver’s police academy is suing those who allegedly forced him to continue the “barbaric hazing ritual” after paramedics ignored warning signs....
Amazon can now be held responsible for dangerous products sold on its platform, government (www.cnn.com)
A US safety regulator announced Tuesday that it voted unanimously to hold Amazon responsible for faulty or unsafe products sold by third-parties on its website and app....
Is land inclination included in area calculation? (sh.itjust.works)
For example on wikipedia for Switzerland it says the country has an area of 41,285 km². Does this take into account that a lot of that area is actually angled at a steep inclination, thus the actual surface area is in effect larger than what you would expect when looking onto a map in satellite view?
New memory tech unveiled that reduces AI processing energy requirements by 1,000 times or more (www.tomshardware.com)
Panama suspends diplomatic relations with Venezuela pending election review (www.reuters.com)
Panama put its diplomatic relations with Venezuela “on hold” and will withdraw its diplomatic personnel from the country until a full review of Sunday’s presidential election results is conducted, President Jose Raul Mulino said on Monday....
Tested: AMD Ryzen AI 300 brings serious performance to Copilot+ PCs (www.pcworld.com)
AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPU delay is due to… typos on the chips? It seems unbelievable, but here we are (www.techradar.com)
Why doesn't the American market provide efficient and effective health insurance like it does for car insurance?
Car insurance is relatively simple. I shop around, telling them how much coverage I want. They request my driving history, and give me a quote. At any time, I can shop around and change insurance policies without any problems. Once it’s time to collect payment, it’s a relatively simple matter. What makes health insurance so...
Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term (www.mediaite.com)
Former President Donald Trump urged members of a crowd in Florida to vote and said that if he wins, they “won’t have to vote anymore.”...
US slows plans to retire coal plants because of AI power usage (www.ft.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17993293
Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion (apnews.com)
A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, a majority of the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday....
'Disgusting': Global 1% Captured $42 Trillion in New Wealth Over Past Decade. (www.commondreams.org)
Sinister (lemmy.world)
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
GMod admins when you noclip (m.ating.press)
Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas (www.nbcnews.com)
The law enforcement officer spent months methodically gathering evidence. He leafed through thousands of pages and highlighted key passages amid reams and reams of paper. He wore his body camera to record his interactions with witnesses and suspects. And he photographed what he saw as instruments of the alleged crime:...
How did gravity worked on the Death Star?
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1104168
Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance (www.tomshardware.com)
Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18305395
Hungary demands EU action against Ukraine as Russian oil spat escalates (www.politico.eu)
Budapest argues it’s facing an energy crunch after Kyiv imposed a partial ban on Moscow’s oil transiting the country....
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Mystery oxygen source discovered on the sea floor — bewildering scientists (www.nature.com)
Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison freed after murder conviction overturned (www.nbcnews.com)
A judge ruled last month Sandra Hemme must be freed or retried for the 1980 murder within 30 days, but the Missouri Attorney General fought to keep her imprisoned....
We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny (www.theguardian.com)
How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia unleashed them on a completely blank smartphone linked to a new, unused email address....
Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)
Windows 3.1, launched in 1992, is likely not getting any updates. So, when CrowdStrike pushed the faulty update to all its customers, Southwest wasn’t affected (because it didn’t receive an update to begin with)....