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‘One big adventure’: the Russian minister who fled the draft to drive trucks in the US (www.theguardian.com)
After years navigating the byzantine corridors of provincial Russian power, Denis Sharonov now works as a truck driver, steering his way through the vast highways of the US.
The Cyber Resilience Act is Worse than I Thought... (www.youtube.com)
We need to start talking about the Cyber Resilience Act, because according to all major Open Source organizations the CRA is a threat to Free Software itself, and it has been approved by the European Committee that was working on it.
Linus responds to The Problem with LMG (web.archive.org)
Context^piped^^-^^invidious^^-^^lemmy^...
All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU (mashable.com)
All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU::undefined
How did Netflix know I was gay before I did? (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1386796...
Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Elon Musk’s X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time (www.theverge.com)
A group of researchers said they have found a way to hack the hardware underpinning Tesla’s infotainment system, allowing them to get what normally would be paid upgrades — such as heated rear seats (techcrunch.com)
The researchers will present their research next week at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas....
NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 | Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess (www.theregister.com)
NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 | Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess::Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess
Christopher Nolan Forgot To Credit Over 80% Of VFX Crew On ‘Oppenheimer’ (www.cartoonbrew.com)
From the linked article…...
OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation (www.businessinsider.com)
OceanGate’s cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn’t stop pushing the limits of innovation::Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
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Brands that don’t buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
another change to Twitter’s ad policy. Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to...
Twitter’s Rebrand To X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks To Microsoft (themessenger.com)
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related...
'Android's now better than iOS': Instagram boss weighs in on the age-old iPhone vs. Android debate (www.businessinsider.com)
‘Android’s now better than iOS’: Instagram boss weighs in on the age-old iPhone vs. Android debate::Instagram head Adam Mosseri’s best tech “hot take”? He believes Google’s Android platform has surpassed Apple’s iOS.
Every economist on Mastodon just had their anonymity compromised by hackers from Yale University 🍿🍿🍿 (www.karlstack.com)
I would have expected Meta to have learned by Elons mistakes but I was just asked if I want to subscribe for a blue tick to verify my account to make my followers feelnsafer (sopuli.xyz)
Threads Usage Drops By Half From Initial Surge (www.similarweb.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/560250...
Samsung’s new 98-inch 8K TV is the projector-beating home theater upgrade I’ve been waiting for (www.techradar.com)
Like most of the other best Samsung TVs, the new 98-inch QN900C has Samsung’s Gaming Hub and Motion Xcelerator Pro. That delivers 4K at up to 120Hz, rising to 144Hz with compatible PCs. There’s also support for AMD FreeSync Premium Pro as well as NVIDIA G-Sync like most of the best gaming TVs have.
If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint (www.businessinsider.com)
Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint::According to one professor, we may be able to stop climate change if we used a new super white paint to cover the entire United States
Woman’s iPhone photo of son rejected from Sydney competition after judges ruled it could be AI (www.theguardian.com)
The FTC Gets Steamrolled Again, Can’t Pause The Microsoft Activision Deal Before Appeal (www.forbes.com)
The FTC Gets Steamrolled Again, Can’t Pause The Microsoft Activision Deal Before Appeal::The FTC failed to land an injunction pausing the deal, something that Microsoft and Activision both said may kill it, but the opposite result now means the acquisition…
Microsoft: Pulling Call of Duty From Steam Was A 'Failure' (kotaku.com)
FTC says it will appeal to block Microsoft-Activision deal (www.cnbc.com)
Would there be any benifit to host another instance?
As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?
Twitter traffic is 'tanking' as Meta's Threads hits 100 million users (www.cnbc.com)
Meta’s new text-based social app Threads has quickly gained 100 million users since launching last week, which appears to be negatively impacting traffic on Twitter. According to web analytics, Twitter traffic declined 5-11% over the first two days Threads was available compared to the previous week. Threads was able to grow...
Musk’s X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter “copycat” Threads (arstechnica.com)
X Corp. claims Meta used Twitter trade secrets and ex-employees to build Threads.
threads is already going great 💀 (lemmy.world)
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Introducing the Orange Pi 5B: A Powerful and Affordable Single-Board Computer (www.orangepi.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/616834...
Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW (mashable.com)
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" (waxy.org)
What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life?
I’m already hosting pihole, but i know there’s so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!...