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Caroline Ellison, who helped convict Sam Bankman-Fried, sentenced to two years for FTX crypto fraud (www.bbc.com)
Caroline Ellison has been sentenced to two years in jail for her role in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which has been described as one of biggest financial frauds in US history....
Hey ChatGPT, shut up about the A-10 and tell me about that mobility scooter technical! (lemmy.world)
image caption: a screen capture of a Facebook post consisting of an AI-generated summary of the Wikipedia page about the A-10, and a bad AI image of a fllightline dominated by misproportioned A-10 being serviced exclusively by M4-weilding infantrymen – including, notably, one that appears to be mounted to a Hoveround.
The Pivotal Decision That Led to a Resurgence of Polio (www.nytimes.com)
The poliovirus that paralyzed a child in Gaza, the first case in the region in 25 years, has traveled a long path....
Record Scratch
Day 52 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)
I was playing Sea of Thieves again with a Friend. We figured out we could get on top of the mast and were messing around with emotes. We thought it was the funniest shit ever. Here’s a screenshot I took of me laying on the Mast. I have another of me in a barrel too.
Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives (lemmy.world)
My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. (lemmy.world)
The game is Word Cookies by Bitmango. I contacted them but haven’t heard back. I’m guessing it was just an oversight, but it still pissed me off.
Intel Core Ultra 200V promises Arm-beating battery life without compatibility issues (arstechnica.com)
Elf om a Shelf
Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court? (apnews.com)
A body camera captured every word and bark uttered as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour....
Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need (www.nytimes.com)
Oklahoma revokes license of teacher who gave class QR code to Brooklyn library in book-ban protest (apnews.com)
Oklahoma’s education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom bookshelf in red tape with the words “Books the state didn’t want you to read.”...
Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms (nordic.ign.com)
Absolutely bizarre that a 1st party title doesn’t seem optimized for the console they’re developing for. This makes me skeptical the PC version will be optimized too.
Elon Musk’s rightward turn includes a fringe fascination: Civil war (www.nbcnews.com)
Musk has posted about an impending civil war on his social media platform X at least eight times in the past 10 months. Some warn it’s dangerous rhetoric....
JD Vance Cites ‘Gangs Of New York’ Movie While Claiming ‘Ethnic Enclaves’ Lead to Higher Crime Rates (www.mediaite.com)
Chinese woman loses final appeal in her fight to freeze her eggs (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing court rejects lawsuit brought by Xu Zaozao, who was seeking to widen access to fertility treatment in China...
Climate activists are actually conservative, as their goal is to prevent a radical change to the climate that human civilization depends on.
Thus, conservatism and neoliberalism are, in reality, the radical agenda…
KURSK IS ON FIRE 🔥 (i.imgur.com)
Bullying ai
Oxford scientists are generating solar power without panels (electrek.co)
A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force (arstechnica.com)
Israeli Finance Minister Complains They Can't Starve 2 Million Civilians To Death (www.timesofisrael.com)
A direct quote from the finance minister of Israel today: “Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.”
Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency (arstechnica.com)
Car Repossessions Surge 23% as Americans Fall Behind on Payments (www.bloomberg.com)
Paywall removed archive.is/NFELy
3 in Gospel Music Hall of Fame quartet among 7 killed in plane crash. (www.voanews.com)
Dutch Olympian who raped a 12-year-old girl ‘is not a paedophile’, official says (www.theguardian.com)
A senior official with the Dutch Olympic committee has insisted that a convicted child rapist in its beach volleyball team is not a paedophile, in an email seen by the Guardian....
Congress Wants To Let Private Companies Own The Law (www.techdirt.com)
The Pro Codes Act has been submitted as an amendment to the “must pass” National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It allows copyrighted standards to be incorporated by reference into the law, preventing people from accessing or sharing these standards except through the systems the standards development organizations have...
Checkmate, Atheists (ibb.co)
Why is Intel failing to Nvidia and AMD? (youtube.com)
Recycled Carbon Fiber Tested on Boeing MAX 9 Sidewalls (aviationweek.com)
How much is 25 lbs. of fuel savings worth to you? How much is it worth to Boeing?
It's wild how many job listings might be fake (www.businessinsider.com)
Resume Builder, which offers résumé templates, surveyed nearly 650 hiring managers in May and found nearly seven in 10 said it was “morally acceptable” to post fake jobs. Hiring managers credited the move with increasing revenue, morale, and how much workers get done....
FBI raids several California homes, including Oakland mayor's (apnews.com)
The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery (www.bbc.com)
Argentina wants to donate Super Etendards and Exocet missiles to Ukraine. (lemmy.world)
EDIT: Realized they’re both technically French missiles and that made it even funnier
Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors (apnews.com)
Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ranks....