“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.” - Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
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Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia (asia.nikkei.com)
My tradition with the rest of the pastry 🎅🏻🍆😉 (feddit.de)
Galaxy A55's Exynos 1480 has better multi-core performance than Galaxy A54 - SamMobile (www.sammobile.com)
Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 (www.newscientist.com)
A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain...
New reusable, silenced, self-rearming antipersonnel mine design (sh.itjust.works)
Four years after Apple, Google will finally kill third-party cookies in 2024 (arstechnica.com)
Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data (www.techdirt.com)
Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a "mixture of experts" (MoE) model with open weights that reportedly truly matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance—an achievement that has been claimed by others in the past but is being taken seriously by AI heavyweights such as OpenAI's Andrej...
Andre Braugher, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Star, Dies at 61 (variety.com)
Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall (lemmy.world)
ISO 8601 is paywalled...
Welcome to Flavortown! (lemmy.world)
vote for your favorite or suggest your own candidates (sh.itjust.works)
New Report: Over 40% of Google Drive Files Contain Sensitive Info (www.infosecurity-magazine.com)
Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. (lemmy.world)
Menu signed by Mao Zedong brings a quarter million dollars at auction (apnews.com)
Denmark parliament adopts bill prohibiting Quran burnings (www.dw.com)
Biden says Hamas raped, mutilated women during Israel assault (www.reuters.com)
Renting alone is too expensive for Gen Z (www.axios.com)
Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI (www.youtube.com)
Gemini is Google’s natively multimodal AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, audio, video and code. This video highlights some of their favorite interactions with Gemini. Learn more and try the model: deepmind.google/gemini
A family's escape from North Korea through a minefield and stormy seas (www.bbc.com)
Damn you short cables.... (lemmy.ml)
I always check stuff like this with new appliances, but I guess there’s some people who don’t…
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Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (www.404media.co)
Kim Jong Un calls for North Korean women to have more children (apnews.com)
Amerikkkan Airlines (hexbear.net)
Huawei is beating America's chip ban with state investment fund's help - SamMobile (www.sammobile.com)
Protester sets self on fire outside Israeli consulate in Atlanta, suffers critical burns (www.pbs.org)
A protester was in critical condition Friday after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, authorities said. A security guard who tried to intervene was also injured....
One dead, two injured in Paris attack, French interior minister says (edition.cnn.com)
…One man – a German tourist born in the Philippines – had been killed in the attack and two others sustained non-life threatening injuries, he added....
Kim's sister rejects US offer of dialogue with North Korea and vows more satellite launches (apnews.com)
China's respiratory illness rise due to known pathogens, official says (www.reuters.com)
South Korea launches its first spy satellite after rival North Korea does the same (abcnews.go.com)
South Koreans want their own nukes. That could roil one of the world’s most dangerous regions (apnews.com)
Nepal becomes first South Asian country to officially register same-sex marriage (www.tribuneindia.com)
Five months after the Supreme Court legalised it, Nepal on Wednesday formally registered the first case of same-sex marriage, making it the first South Asian country to do so....
Two Hamas gunmen open fire at Jerusalem bus stop, killing three (www.reuters.com)
Two Hamas members kill three in morning rush hour attack...
Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating (arstechnica.com)
André 3000 Surpasses Tool For Longest [song length] Hot 100 Hit Of All Time (www.stereogum.com)
André 3000 has surpassed Tool for the longest Hot 100 hit of all time. As Billboard reports, his track “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” charted at #90 on the Hot 100 this week — it’s the first song on his new instrumental album New Blue Sun. It...
South Korean Farmers Threaten to Release 2 Million Dogs in Protest of Dog Meat Ban (time.com)
You can’t even pay people to have more kids (www.vox.com)
These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work....
E-Books, best places to get them?
I want to get back into reading, so I’m thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it’s possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books....