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How to watch the first US Presidential Debate 2024 online: free live streams available (www.techradar.com)
PBS/CNN stream:...
Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death (apnews.com)
Julian Lewis didn’t pull over for the Georgia State Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He still didn’t stop after pointing a hand out the window and turning onto a darkened dirt road as the trooper sounded his siren....
Ironing
Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played (www.pcgamesn.com)
Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions (windowsreport.com)
According to the latest reports, Windows 11 has made an independent choice by automatically turning on OneDrive folder backup for Desktop, Pictures, Documents, Music, and Video folders without your permission. This signifies that, whether you approve or not, everything is becoming coordinated with the cloud....
How I date (jlai.lu)
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn’t install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...
Anon gets calls from scammers (sh.itjust.works)
Not to mom shame... (lemmy.world)
Trump expects Biden to be a 'worthy debater' after spending months attacking his mental fitness (abcnews.go.com)
Utah's bathroom snitch line hasn't found one legitimate complaint out of 12,000 (www.advocate.com)
Did it hurt?
Tea Time
Anon fucks up (sh.itjust.works)
‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age (www.theguardian.com)
Claire*, 42, was always told: “Follow your dreams and the money will follow.” So that’s what she did. At 24, she opened a retail store with a friend in downtown Ottawa, Canada. She’d managed to save enough from a part-time government job during university to start the business without taking out a loan....
Kbin.social down again? Are people moving to mbin instances (kbin.run, fedia.io)? (kbin.social)
Link to a list of mbin instances: fedidb.org/software/mbin
So what are we drawing?
Canvas 2024 is still a ways off but it will be here before you know it. What are we drawing?...
McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now (www.theverge.com)
Pornhub drops some shocking gay adult content data just for Pride Month 2024 (www.advocate.com)
ASUS warns of critical remote authentication bypass on 7 routers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
House Republicans Propose Renaming Oceans After Donald Trump (dailyboulder.com)
House Republicans have ignited a firestorm with a proposed bill that would rename the vast coastal waters encircling the United States after former President Donald Trump. The legislation, spearheaded by Florida Representative Greg Steube, seeks to rebrand the US Exclusive Economic Zone as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive...
The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked (www.vox.com)
What the heck is a god dang cloud?
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...
'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement (www.theatlantic.com)
As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...
Lauren Boebert complains media attention is turning public against her (www.rawstory.com)
Adult entertainment industry sues again over law requiring pornographic sites to verify users' ages (apnews.com)
An Indiana law that requires pornographic websites to verify users’ ages — one of numerous such statutes in effect across the country — is being challenged by an association of the adult entertainment industry....
Raspberry Pi becomes a public company (www.theregister.com)
All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration (www.theverge.com)
Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360. (www.nytimes.com)
Biden supporters mostly back him in 2024 election because they oppose Trump, poll finds (www.theguardian.com)
What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week? (www.creativebloq.com)
Key points:...
NIC goes dark when Proxmox kernel loads after GPU install (works again if GPU removed) (lemmy.world)
Like the title says. I installed a GPU, everything posts and boots fine. The lights on the Ethernet port are lit up and will stay lit up indefinitely (I assume) if I leave it at the kernel select screen....
Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction (www.bbc.com)
Adults and teens concerned about their screen time are turning in their smartphones for “dumber” models....
Microsoft addresses Windows Recall backlash, promises to fix security issues and make it opt-in (www.windowscentral.com)