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Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot (inews.co.uk)
South West Water is claiming it has no legal obligation to keep rivers and seawater clean of sewage in its defence against a Devon swimmer who is taking the water company to court....
Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing” (www.theverge.com)
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street (www.riverfronttimes.com)
Baltimore bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship (www.theguardian.com)
A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water....
TIL Nokia has owned Bell Labs since 2016, and still does a lot of Telecom stuff (en.wikipedia.org)
The Nokia logo was also redesigned last year to represent a pivot away from making smartphones. Nokia acquired Bell Labs in 2016 as part of its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
Why Americans are bummed out about the economy (www.cnn.com)
US consumers remain unimpressed with this progress, however, because they remember what they were paying for things pre-pandemic. Used car prices are 34% higher, food prices are 26% higher and rent prices are 22% higher than in January 2020, according to our calculations using PCE data....
Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version (news.itsfoss.com)
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US (www.bbc.com)
John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017....
Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service
See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn’t use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don’t agree to their terms, then I don’t get access to their new products. That...
Toyota says it would rather buy credits than ‘waste’ money on EVs (electrek.co)
Military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western U.S. (www.cbsnews.com)
Military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western U.S.::The U.S. is tracking a small, high-altitude balloon that is drifting across the country but poses no threat to national security, the military said Friday.
Inventorying high value items with receipts
Is there a FOSS program where I can inventory my high value items in case there is an insurance claim?...
Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender (www.404media.co)
Police arrested three men accused of selling thousands of pills of meth-laced “Adderall” on various darknet marketplaces and mailing them through the United States Postal Service through a fictitious business called “Professional Paper Filing Inc.” that listed a real return address of an uninvolved business. That...
Distro for a local "cloud gaming" no monitor desktop
I’m looking for a specific distro to handle some tasks....
Scam bitcoin Snap app! (popey.com)
A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.
Mixxx 2.4 Open-Source DJ Software Released with Major Changes (9to5linux.com)
US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents (www.theverge.com)
US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents::The US Patent and Trademark Office maintains that only natural humans can get patents, but people do have to disclose if they used AI for the invention.
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
This is true (lemmynsfw.com)
Nightclubs on the brink as clean-living Gen Zs ditch scene (www.yahoo.com)
Best solution for a distributed filesystem?
Not sure if this is better fit for datahoarder or some selfhost community, but putting my money on this one....
How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced?
Am I not understanding FOSH (free and open source hardware)? I have always dreamed of open source hardware but it has always seemed unshakeably and fundamentally reliant on for instance massive open pit mines mining all over the world in finite dwindling supply wrecking local ecosystems every element necessary for computer...
Are there any good alternatives to concrete/asphalt
Why is it so expensive and is there an alternative out there that won’t break so easily especially in the winter? My state is spending like a billion dollars a year on roads that they’ll probably have to fix in 5 years, it really seems like a huge waste of money....
Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
Reddit: IP Address Disclosure Puts User Anonymity At Risk * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
AMD Announces New Desktop Zen 3 Chips With 2 New APUs and the Ryzen 7 5700X3D (www.anandtech.com)
Far-Right Extremists Are Organizing an Armed Convoy to the Texas Border (www.wired.com)
Proposed CA bill would electronically restrict cars from going 10mph over speed limit (abc7.com)
VMWare FUD. Anyone moving away from it professionally?
I’ve been seeing a lot of doom and gloom about VMware. The cutting of services and licensing changes of the cost of core offerings are huge issues. Is anyone planning or budgeting to change to another hypervisor? If so what?
Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes (www.theguardian.com)
Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes::Kayak customers can exclude Max 9 aircraft after cabin panel blowout on Alaska Airlines flight
United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing's next airplane (apnews.com)
The United Airlines CEO says he is “disappointed” in ongoing manufacturing problems at Boeing that have led to the grounding of dozens of United jetliners, and the airline will consider alternatives to buying a future, larger version of the Boeing 737 Max....
Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds (arstechnica.com)
Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won't stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU (www.techradar.com)
Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won’t stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU::LPCAMM2 is a revolution in RAM, but it faces an uphill struggle
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
Vanguard, the controversial anti-cheat software initially attached to Valorant, is now also coming to League of Legends....
Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla (www.cnn.com)
In a series of posts on X Monday night, Musk said that he would not want to grow Tesla to become a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics without a compensation plan that would give him ownership of around 25% of the company’s stock. That would be about double the roughly 13% stake he currently owns....
Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds (www.cnn.com)
Marijuana has a lower potential for abuse than other drugs that are subjected to the same restrictions, with scientific support for its use as a medical treatment, researchers from the US Food and Drug Administration say in documents supporting its reclassification as a Schedule III substance....
Nasa unveils quiet supersonic aircraft in effort to revive commercial flights (www.theguardian.com)
In launch event on Friday, agency shared plans to test over US cities to see if it’s quiet enough by engaging ‘the people below’...
TSA found a record number of guns at airport security checkpoints in 2023. Almost all of them were loaded. (www.cbsnews.com)