The EPA’s new power plant pollution rule has a big, gassy hole in it
A power plant in Thompsons, Texas, U.S. that’s home to the Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. | Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just finalized rules aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. But it still doesn’t crack down on the nation’s fleet of gas-fired power plants. That’s a big omission considering the US gets 43 percent of its electricity from gas, more than from any other source of energy.
EPA administrator Michael Regan says the agency is taking more time to strengthen rules for today’s existing gas power plants. But waiting too long risks leaving the decision up to a possible forthcoming Trump administration, which tried to gut environmental protections the last time. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking for the US to meet climate commitments it set under the Paris agreement. The Biden...
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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
Occasionally I see people posting about their clever tricks for getting accented characters like é or ü into a document, and I have to physically restrain myself from enthusing all over them about the glories of the compose key
World Central Kitchen workers killed in Israeli strikes will be honored at memorial
The aid workers were killed April 1 when a succession of Israeli armed drones ripped through vehicles in their convoy as they left one of World Central Kitchen's warehouses on a food delivery mission.
Pro-Palestinian protests spread to the campuses of USC and the University of Texas
Arrests were made at both schools. The LAPD said it would continue patrolling USC's campus into Thursday, while Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the protestors at UT-Austin belong in jail.
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aardrian@toot.cafe ("Adrian Roselli") wrote:
@bkardell @brucelawson
I once lost a prospect because the marketing guy wanted infinite scroll for a non-content-heavy site to “reduce bounce rate.”That frustrating interaction begat this post: https://adrianroselli.com/2015/05/for-infinite-scroll-bounce-rate-is.html
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macdonst@mastodon.online ("Simon MacDonald") wrote:
Well #JSNakedDay will continue for a few more hours but if I can share one quick story on how I became radicalized before the clock hits midnight.
Back during 2020 during the height of the COVID pandemic we needed to order stuff from Canadian Tire.
Aside: Canadian Tire sells more than tires just like Wal-Mart sells other things besides walls.
Anyway, because of the new reality of having to pick up stuff from poorly paid teenagers in a parking lot Canadian Tire revamped their website.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Just learned you can download the entire Wikipedia site for offline use. It's about 100gb compressed, media included. 🤯
TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images
Here’s a roundup of all the news about a new law requiring parent company ByteDance to sell off its platform.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The Cloud vs On-Device war continues:
Apple Releases Open Source AI Models That Run On-Device
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/24/apple-ai-open-source-models/
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WorMP3@mstdn.social ("@𝚆𝚘𝚛𝙼𝙿𝟹:~$ :t_blink:") wrote:
I must be living in the twilight zone with this #TikTok bullshit law. People are actually defending the government saying it’s a good move for the security of people. Am I back in Venezuela? What in the fuck is going on here?
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InternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid🇵🇸") wrote:
🥺Texas cops when your kids are in danger
😡Texas cops when someone points out higher ed profits off displacement and genocide
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LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault ✌🏻") wrote:
You can tell the IDF trained American police by the way they are beating the shit out of protestors.
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My crazy obsession 🥺 Integrating LEDs/electroluminescense into shoes. They keep me visible around traffic at night 👉👈
#diy #maker #imadethis #cyberpunk #cyberpunk2077 #solarpunk #led #electroluminescent #solarpunk #teslapunk #lunarpunk #lunarcore #techwear #futuristic #scifi #sciencefiction #TheExpanse #shoes #boots #ootd #fashion
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meg@fediscience.org ("Megan") wrote:
I was in such a bad mood today. I don't know why. Fortunately, Los Bitchos released a video to cheer me up 😎
Mike Johnson’s Visit to Columbia Wasn’t a Hit
When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) emerged onto the steps of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library on Wednesday afternoon, he was greeted with a deafening sound: hundreds of booing students. Johnson had just emerged from meetings with Jewish students at the university to discuss what he, other Republicans, and some Democrats allege is rising antisemitism on campuses […]
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Those indicted in Arizona include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman, according to the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/24/arizona-2020-election-charges-meadows-giuliani-ellis/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well, so far https://actix.rs/ seems pretty sane
11 pro-Trump 'fake electors' from 2020 are indicted in Arizona
Arizona is now the fourth state where charges have been brought against individuals involved in so-called "fake elector" schemes that sought to undermine Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump.
Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
The generative AI gold rush is underway — just don’t expect it to create profits anytime soon.
That was the message from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to investors during Wednesday’s call for the company’s first-quarter earnings report. Having just put its ChatGPT competitor in a bunch of places across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, much of the call focused on exactly how generative AI will become a money-making endeavor for Meta.
The company is already quite profitable, having grown net income to more than $12 billion on $36.5 billion in revenue in the last quarter alone. But its revenue growth is expected to slow going forward. At the same time, it’s spending more than ever on AI and the metaverse.
“Historically, investing to build...
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"Explaining Code using ASCII Art" was one of the most fun blog posts I ever wrote
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653
and now there's a paper on this topic! ❤️
https://pg.ucsd.edu/publications/how-programmers-ASCII-diagram-code_CHI-2024.pdf
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mainframed767@infosec.exchange ("Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:") wrote:
A great takedown of the person who many believe is the reason Google search sucks now
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garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:
the URL bar is the weirdest of all package managers
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...
But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?
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The Oxide Friends have talked about the Hashicorp license change, the emergence of an open source fork of Terraform in OpenTofu, and other topics in open source. A few weeks ago both InfoWorld and Hashicorp (independently?) accused OpenTofu of stealing Terraform code—a serious claim that turned out to be fully unfounded. @bcantrill and I talk about this FUD and FUD generally.
Gateway Pundit files for bankruptcy after election conspiracy defamation lawsuits
The influential website faced multiple defamation suits over conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud that it's accused of promoting.
What consumers should know about the milk testing positive for bird flu
Federal officials and scientific experts say the virus detected in retail milk samples may be inactive and unable to cause an infection.
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haveago@flipboard.com ("Have A Go") wrote:
California just went 9.25 hours using only renewable energy
https://www.fastcompany.com/91110863/california-renewable-energy-grid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into HAPPY, HEALTHY CITIES @happy-healthy-cities-haveago
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danilo@hachyderm.io ("Danilo Campos 🇵🇷") wrote:
There’s a nationwide wave of student protests this week, met by violent clashes with law enforcement
We’ve lost so much social media infrastructure to follow this sort of thing, but Talia Jane still at Twitter is doing a great job rounding things up in real time
(Moralize in the replies about linking to Twitter, get blocked 😘. Invest that energy to make masto more effective for this instead.)
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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324
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Heated arguments at the Supreme Court in newest abortion case
At issue is a clash between federal and state law about how pregnant women must be treated in the emergency room.
Threads wants to let you wipe your old posts away
Image: The Verge
Threads is testing the option to automatically hide your old posts. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the feature is only available to a “small number” of users for now, but it will let you choose to archive individual posts manually or have them automatically archived after a certain amount of time.
You can see an example of how the feature might look in Mosseri’s post on Threads. Users with access to the test should be able to manually archive their content by hitting the three dots in the top-right corner of a post and selecting “Archive now.” This will give users the option to hide certain posts on their profiles, similar to the archive option on Instagram.
Mosseri says that users can make their posts public again at any time. He...
Nintendo Forcing Garry's Mod To Delete 20 Years' Worth Of Content
Garry’s Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve’s Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry’s Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years’ worth of Nintendo-related content from the…
The BattlerGC Pro might be the GameCube controller’s final form
BattleGC Pro in limited-edition crystal. | Image: Retro Fighters
This new BattlerGC Pro controller looks like it could be the ultimate GameCube gamepad — one with drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks, hybrid analog / digital triggers, programmable back buttons, a rechargeable battery with a USB-C port, and the ability to use it across different consoles and systems thanks to Bluetooth support. And of course, it’s the latest controller to host the best face button layout ever, and I will fight to the Final Destination defending it!
I do, however, acknowledge the GameCube controller layout is not everyone’s favorite, so it’s no surprise there aren’t a lot of great modern GameCube controller options besides the PowerA-made licensed one that runs on AA batteries, which is my current go-to for docked...
Taylor Swift set a new record this week with, well, records. The vinyl kind.
Taylor Swift, whose latest album is now the first to surpass one billion Spotify streams in a single week, has smashed another record as well.
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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
In Florida, an exodus of people fleeing rising anti-immigrant sentiment
Nearly a year ago, Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. In some communities, it's caused a mass exodus. Those who stayed behind say, it's made life terrifying.
Shot by Israeli troops while getting aid, a boy in Gaza fights for his life
UNICEF says one child is injured or killed in Gaza every 10 minutes. This is the story of a 12-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces while he was trying to get food aid.
Two Popular Fallout 76 Builds To Stop You From Dying In The Wasteland
Fallout 76 isn’t like Bethesda’s previous open-world RPGs. While those single-player adventures were somewhat forgiving campaigns that let you build your character however you wanted, the multiplayer spin-off is full of bullet sponge-y enemies that require you to focus on a particular skill set in order to survive the…
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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:
This would be a great day to put the fundraiser for Sydette Harry (@blackamazon in other places) over the top.
Sydette has been working on making online communities better and safer for more people for years and years, often with little recognition, and her fierce commitment to focusing on the people taking the most damage has genuinely changed the conversation.
Embracer CEO Is Full Of Excuses
The past year or so has been a slow-moving trainwreck for Embracer Group, following the large company’s unprecedented studio acquisition spree. And, after announcing on April 22 that the company was planning to split itself up into three different companies, the CEO of Embracer is only filled with excuses as to why…
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac
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While Drake’s fans have been having a ball with the Canadian rapper’s recently released track dissing fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar, the legal team representing Tupac Shakur is threatening to take legal action if the song isn’t pulled off the internet.
Billboard reports that late rapper Tupac’s legal team is ready to take Drake to court over the release of “Taylor Made,” Drake’s recently released song featuring the AI-generated voices of Shakur and Snoop Dogg. In a statement about Drake’s creation of “Taylor Made,” litigator Howard King called the song a “blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time” and said the Shakur estate never cleared the use of Tupac’s voice.
“The Estate is deeply dismayed and...
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
@collinsworth after hearing this reasonable take being ignored through my entire professional career, I gave up. Excited engineers will always follow "industry leaders" without criticism. Dissent is confused with ignorance.
Overwatch 2 Players Face Bans For Leaving Games They Never Did
Overwatch 2 outlined several new rules and penalties it would be implementing in season 10 to help curate a less hostile player environment on April 10. But since the season began last week, players have been reporting bans that would typically be applied to someone leaving a game early being implemented for seemingly…
The 12 Best Stellar Blade Skills To Unlock First
Stellar Blade, the new PS5-exclusive character action game, has tons of skills to unlock like its genre siblings Bayonetta and Devil May Cry. Across protagonist Eve’s five skill trees, some abilities increase your damage, stun your enemies, dodge attacks entirely, let you double jump, and more. It can be daunting,…
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What I'm listening to today: "CZ-3000.mpeg", Grégoire Blanc
For a period in the 80s Casio produced a high-end "CZ" line, which used a unique synthesis method called "phase distortion"; it's like FM, but way cooler.
Grégoire Blanc is a professional concert thereminist. The video desc explains he found his old CZ-3000 in the attic and the wave of memories inspired him to compose this.
This is… beautiful, actually, and deeply enigmatic. What is the emotion of this piece?
Airlines will soon have to pay you back if they cancel or delay your flight
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) finalized rules that will soon require airlines to quickly refund passengers if they cancel or delay flights or make significant changes.
Airlines must pay passengers back either in cash or in the original form of payment, no matter the reason they cancel their flight. Alternatively, passengers can choose to accept travel credit, other kinds of transportation, or another flight offered by the airline.
Airlines must also refund passengers if their flight itinerary is “significantly changed” and they don’t accept the airline’s alternative travel options. Specifically, this means that you can get your money back if your flight changes its arrival or departure time by three or more hours for domestic...
WhatsApp for iOS is rolling out passwordless logins with passkeys
Illustration: The Verge
One more app joins the passwordless future we’ve been promised. WhatsApp says it’s now rolling out support for passkeys in the iOS version of the app. With the feature enabled, users of Meta’s encrypted messaging app can use iPhone biometrics for login — that is, Face ID or Touch ID — or their phone’s passcode.
WhatsApp already supports unlocking its iOS app with one of these options, but this takes that a step further. Passkey support comes to the iPhone version several months after Meta started distributing it to Android WhatsApp users in October.
Passkeys are supposed to be the secure (or, at least, more secure; even passkeys have tradeoffs) wave of the future — a version of authentication that does away with passwords and SMS...
TikTok will stop paying people to watch videos every day
The Digital Services Act strikes again. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
TikTok Lite users in Europe will have to find another way to earn an extra 38 cents a day.
The light version of the TikTok app, which launched in two EU countries a couple of weeks ago, included a reward feature that paid users a small amount each day to engage with videos. European regulators launched an inquiry soon after, citing the feature’s potential for encouraging addiction — particularly in young people. TikTok responded today by suspending the feature in the EU while it addresses the investigation.
TikTok Lite is designed as a lightweight alternative to the main TikTok app for easier use on slow internet connections. It has been available in parts of Asia for years and became available in France and Spain earlier this month....
Net neutrality is about to make a comeback
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote to restore net neutrality on Thursday in the latest volley of a yearslong game of political ping-pong.
The commission is expected to reclassify internet service providers (ISPs) — e.g., broadband companies like AT&T and Comcast — as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act. That classification would open ISPs up to greater oversight by the FCC. The vote is widely expected to go in favor of reinstating net neutrality since FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, controls the agency’s agenda. Rosenworcel moved forward with the measure after a fifth commissioner was sworn in, restoring a Democratic majority on the panel. (Disclosure: Comcast is an investor in Vox Media,...
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Protocol Supremacy™ won't liberate us from #BigTech.
We can't stand on our welcome mats with exposed acid tongues towards the same people we're waving over.
History will remember the Black and brown activists who changed minds on social media. It won't give a shit about the protocol that message was delivered on.
We owe these people our grace and full support. We should be listening instead of waving our finger in their face.
John Cage Would Want You to Listen to Columbia’s Pro-Palestinian Protesters
John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically impossible to know with absolute certainty how he would feel about the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University. But the question emerges after New York Times columnist John McWhorter, a music humanities and linguistics professor at Columbia, wrote that he was forced to stop students […]
Paramount Plus is trying to carve out a safe streaming space for kids
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
There are two types of parents I’m friends with: those who let their kids watch YouTube and those who work very hard to keep their kids as far from YouTube as possible. Given I know at least one small child who developed an obsession with dictators after getting around the YouTube parental controls, I understand the divide. Streaming services seem to understand that divide, too, and are eager to provide an alternative to YouTube that gives parents all the set-and-forget appeal of YouTube without, hopefully, the questions about Kim Jong Un’s rise to power.
Paramount Plus, with its massive library of Nickelodeon shows, is a little more primed than other streamers that have had to create a library of kids content from scratch. In a...
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john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:
A random artwork from my gallery:
"Felt Mountain 06: Felt Mountain" — 2011
Drawings inspired by Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain. Track No 6, Felt Mountain. For Felt Mountain's Felt Mountain, I have drawn a felt mountain, which symbolises a felt mountain.
https://johnconway.art/fm6_felt_mountain
#Art #Animals #Electronica #FeltMountain #Goldfrapp #Music #Surreal #TripHop #Vector
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The Story of One Child Living in Gaza
As Israel's war against Hamas continues, children in Gaza are suffering. According to the United Nations, more than 25,000 children have been killed or injured since October. That's one child every ten minutes. We hear about one of those children, a twelve year-old boy injured in Gaza. For more coverage of all sides of this conflict, go to npr.org/mideastupdates
Apple’s new AI model hints at how AI could come to the iPhone
Illustration: The Verge
Apple has been quiet about its plans for generative AI, but with the release of new AI models today, it appears the company’s immediate ambitions lie firmly in the “make AI run locally on Apple devices” realm.
Researchers from Apple released OpenELM, a series of four very small language models on the Hugging Face model library, on Wednesday. Apple said on its Hugging Face model page that OpenELM, which stands for “Open-source Efficient Language Models,” performs very efficiently on text-related tasks like email writing. The models are open source and ready for developers to use.
OpenELM is even smaller than most lightweight AI models
It has four sizes: 270 million parameters; 450 million parameters; 1.1 billion parameters; and 3 billion...
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
You can tell developers are ridiculously privileged by how loudly we complain when forced to move slightly outside of our comfort zones.
How To Make Fallout 76 Stop Running Like Crap On PC
So, you watched the Fallout TV show on Amazon, got excited about the franchise, maybe saw some folks playing Fallout 76, and decided that you were finally going to install Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic MMO and give it a real shot. But then you tried playing it on PC and discovered that it runs like garbage. Wait! Before…
Idaho Wants the Supreme Court to Ignore Reality. The Justices Seem Ready to Oblige.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that presented the grim reality of the post-Roe v. Wade world the justices have created. Without a constitutional right to abortion, states are forcing women into grave yet preventable health crises by denying them emergency abortion care. And yet, it appeared that less than […]
DOJ Filing: Steve Bannon Is a “Co-Conspirator” in a $1 Billion Fraud Case
In a little-noticed court filing earlier this month, federal prosecutors described Steve Bannon as a “co-conspirator” in a massive criminal fraud and racketeering case against a flamboyant, far-right Chinese fugitive, compounding the legal headaches of the former Donald Trump adviser. FBI agents in March 2023 arrested Guo Wengui, a self-styled anti-Chinese government activist Bannon once […]
Spotify is struggling to get Apple to approve its iOS updates in the EU
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge
Spotify submitted a new version of its iOS app that should give users in the European Union in-app pricing information for subscriptions made outside of Apple’s payment system — provided the update doesn’t get stonewalled by Apple again.
According to TechCrunch, the latest version of the app doesn’t contain a direct link to subscription plans on Spotify’s website, something the company hoped would allow it to skirt the 30 percent cut Apple takes on subscriptions made via the App Store. Instead, EU users will be directed to manually visit Spotify’s website via a web browser in order to purchase cheaper subscription plans.
"Apple continues to break European law,” and unfortunately that means we still can’t give EU consumers the...
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adrian@discuss.systems ("Adrian Sampson") wrote:
☕️ LATTE, our little workshop on programming languages for hardware design, is coming up this weekend. The program is looking wild: https://capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte24/
It’s a hybrid thing, so consider joining us on Zoom. Everyone loves a weekend Zoom. https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlceCgpjkvEtcBL_b7hFWpbShI_Je4mSU8
Ahead Of Dawntrail, Final Fantasy XIV Players Are Conflicted About Healers
Final Fantasy XIV fans are having a debate over what the healer role should look like going forward. The MMO’s next expansion, Dawntrail, releases this summer and will bring with it a myriad of new features and changes to how the game will play. Recently a benchmark for the expansion was released which, on top of…
AIPAC Spent Millions to Take Down the Squad. The Working Families Party Is Fighting Back.
Last November, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington, announced a $100 million effort to unseat members of Congress who vocally supported calls for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza. AIPAC and its allies have flooded the spring and summer primaries of Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and […]
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
AI companies are running out of training data because there isn't enough human experience in the world to turn a thinking rock sentient.
Barbara Walters forged a path for women in journalism, but not without paying a price
Walters was the first woman to co-anchor a national news show on prime time television. "The path she cut is one that many of us have followed," says biographer Susan Page, author of The Rulebreaker.
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mzedp@mas.to ("mau 🏳️🌈#EndFossilFuels") wrote:
@jdp23 @fromjason Mastodon puritans, some kind of religious dogma obssesed with the fact that not everyone cares as much as they do about the details of the platform they use.
so, they'll see people from the third world who have used twitter to build a network over decades and denounce them for not immediately giving it up, assuming that everyone must follow and care about US news.
Overwatch 2's Mirrorwatch Event Is So Good It Has Me In Mourning
Overwatch 2 has had a lot of bad news since it launched, such as the gutting of its PvE suite, and now the reported cancellation of its story missions. Every seemingly good thing that’s introduced, like a store to buy rare skins, comes with a caveat, in that case being egregiously expensive. The limited-time…
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Weird is in the eye of the beholder.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/24/wait-whats-weird-about-them/
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Feds charge Iranian nationals for cyberattacks against US government
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
The US government has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals over claims they carried out a yearslong hacking campaign against US government agencies and companies. It also accuses the group of waging these attacks on behalf of the Iranian government.
An indictment unsealed on Tuesday alleges that from around 2016 through at least April 2021, the four individuals waged cyberattacks against “more than a dozen” US-based companies, along with the US departments of the Treasury and State. The companies targeted by the attacks were “primarily” contractors for the US Department of Defense that had access to sensitive information.
The indictment names Hossein Harooni, Reza Kazemifar, Komeil Baradaran Salmani, and Alireza Shafie Nasab as...
Sand Land’s Video Game Adaptation Is A Devilishly Good Time
Sand Land caught my attention as soon as I saw the game’s booth at New York City Comic Con last year, with its enormous recreation of the Royal Army tank. The game’s setting, character designs, and of course the tank, stuck with me, even though I wouldn’t consider myself familiar with much, if any, of Akira Toriyama’s…
Fallout 76 Is Getting Something Rare: A Second Chance At A First Impression
Fallout is bigger than ever right now, thanks in large part to the recent live-action Amazon show. The show’s success has led to millions of players hopping into past Fallout games. And yes, that includes the franchise’s oddball MMO, Fallout 76. Thanks to the show and 76’s inclusion in Game Pass, a lot of people are…
Reddit is updating its app to focus more on comments
Illustration: The Verge
Reddit is updating its mobile app on iOS and Android to emphasize comments, the company said today. The handful of changes announced are aimed at “removing hurdles and reducing friction points,” the company wrote in a blog post.
The changes are subtle but add up to comments becoming more of a focal point in the user experience. Comments will now load faster and open in an “instant” when users click on the comment icon of a post. Clicking the comments icon takes users straight to the top comment, essentially bypassing the original post.
GIF: Reddit
A “context bar” with the original post will be pinned to the top of the screen with the text, image, or video content compressed. Clicking on the thumbnail will take the...
Another Crab’s Treasure is a cheery, accessible take on Dark Souls
Image: Aggro Crab
The underwater adventure is a rare glimpse into a more accessible soulslike experience.
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homegrown@social.growyourown.services ("Grow Your Own Services 🌱") wrote:
I've written a "Beginner's Guide to creating and using your own domain name", which is aimed at non-technical people who are buying their first domain for use on their own site:
➡️ https://growyourown.services/a-beginners-guide-to-creating-and-using-your-own-domain-name
It tries to cover all the basics and things that might trip you up.
Would appreciate all and any kind of feedback, corrections etc.
#GrowYourOwn #SelfHosting #ManagedHosting #CommunityHosting #Fediverse
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jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:
NEW: "shocking and depressing"
"...even in this room I am speaking to people who were victims of this system"
#Poland's prosecutor general testifies to 🇵🇱#polish parliament about hacking of 100s with #Pegasus spyware.
Story: https://apnews.com/article/poland-spyware-pegasus-nso-group-israel-413bb3cb27daac011d52b524c6d16160
#polska #cybersecurity #spyware #malware #infosec #surveillance #EU #Europe
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Biden signs $95 billion military aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
Ukraine will get most of the assistance as it struggles to combat Russia's overwhelming firepower. The bill also includes more weapons for Israel, and humanitarian help for Gaza.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
We need more blog punks writing about big tech without worrying what big tech may think. #google
With federal fraud trial looming, George Santos drops out of New York House race
The scandal-plagued former Republican congressman, ousted from his House seat last year, abandoned his long-shot independent bid for Congress. But he suggested his political career may not be over.
Our pick for the best fitness tracker is down to its best price of the year
Amazfit’s GTR 4 offers an impressive feature set for its price, including an OLED display and dual-band GPS. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic are some of the best on the market. Yet, at almost $400, they’re not for everybody, especially since you’ll need to be tapped into a particular operating system to make the most of either wearable.
Thankfully, for everybody else, there’s the platform-agnostic Amazfit GTR 4, which is currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Amazfit’s online storefront for $169.99 ($30 off). That’s the best price we’ve seen it go for so far this year and only $10 shy of its all-time low, which we last saw during the holidays.
From period tracking to monitoring your heart rate, sleep, stress, and SpO2 levels, the GTR 4 offers an impressive feature set for $170 — which is...
Nissan’s Iruyo knows when your baby is sleeping, knows when they’re awake
Just look at the abject horror on that kid’s face. | Image: Nissan
Almost seven years ago, my partner and I took an ill-advised road trip for a wedding with our nearly one-month-old child. In those early days, our kid cried. A lot. Loudly. In the confines of an SUV, this meant a nightmare of constantly pulling over to try, desperately and often in vain, to quell the woes of this tiny fleshy sack full of our combined genetics that has no understanding of our world.
That’s where things like the “intelligent puppet” Iruyo, a two-piece, fluffy animatronic toy with the claimed ability to recognize when a child is sleeping, ostensibly comes in. Iruyo was designed by Nissan in partnership with an ad agency and a retail baby product chain (so we’re already off to a great start) as part of a marketing campaign...
Stellar Blade: The Kotaku Review
In many ways, Stellar Blade is awesome. The action is awesome, the soundtrack is awesome, the world is awesome. However, when you peel back the curtain just a bit and peer behind all the flash and style, you find that Shift Up’s character action game can also be quite tedious. It’s a game of dichotomies, one that’s…
Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?
Image: Getty
During last night’s earnings call with investors, Elon Musk threw out an all-time late-night dorm room bong sesh of an idea: what if AWS, but for Tesla?
Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your hands? No, I mean really looked?)
“There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of...
The https://js-naked-day.org is easy for me: https://lib.rs has no JavaScript. It never had any.
Sony Removing Stellar Blade's Unintentional N-Word Reference
A juxtaposition of environmental elements that, taken together, can be interpreted as an allusion to the n-word will be removed from sci-fi action game Stellear Blade in a day one patch, Sony confirmed today. The company told IGN the offensive reference was “unintentional.”
President Biden signs law to ban TikTok nationwide unless it is sold
The measure was included in a foreign aid package providing support to Ukraine and Israel. TikTok has vowed to challenge the law in federal court.
Deadpool & Wolverine’s Cassandra Nova Signals A Surprising Comic Influence
The latest trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine gave audiences their first good look at the movie’s big bad, Cassandra Nova. She’s an X-Men character with a weird history in the comics and no obvious connection to Deadpool. So how does she fit into the merc with a mouth’s introduction into the MCU? The trailer doesn’t…
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hn250@social.lansky.name ("Hacker News 250") wrote:
The man who killed Google Search
Link: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images
President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year.
The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move. The company has an initial nine months to sort out a deal, though the president could extend that another three months if he sees progress.
While just recently the legislation seemed like it would stall out in the Senate after being passed as a standalone bill in the House, political maneuvering helped usher it through to Biden’s desk. The House packaged the TikTok bill — which upped the timeline for divestment from the six months allowed in the earlier version — with foreign aid to US...
JSR Is Not Another Package Manager
JSR introduces a new way to share JavaScript and TypeScript code across platforms, focusing on simplifying distribution without replacing existing package managers.
17 Essential Sand Land Tips To Get You Started
Sand Land, the video game adaptation of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s one-volume manga of the same name, arrives on April 26, 2024 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows.
The GOP’s Grand Plan: Minority Rule
It’s been said so often it’s almost become a cliché: Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy. But his authoritarian impulses and hate-encouraging demagoguery are far from the only peril for the nation. Conservatives and Republicans for years have been striving on multiple fronts to weaken democracy by suppressing voter rights and pushing for […]
League Of Legends Pro Suspended For Humping Teddy Bear On Stream
League of Legends pro Lu ‘Leyan’ Jue said he was just rocking out with his favorite oversized plushie. But Riot Games felt differently and fined the Invictus Gaming jungler nearly $7,000 and suspended him for two matches over footage of him humping a giant stuffed animal of Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear from Toy Story 3 during…
‘PBS Retro’ is coming to Roku as a FAST channel
It’s where Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood lives. | Image: PBS Distribution via The Wrap.
Parents, it’s time to green-light more screen time.
PBS classics from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, including titles like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Thomas and Friends, are coming to streaming. PBS Distribution is making the edutainment programming available for free in the form of a FAST (free, ad-supported streaming) channel called PBS Retro, which is accessible through The Roku Channel.
“We identified an interest in connecting audiences with the content they grew up watching,” PBS distribution president Andrea Downing told The Wrap. The Roku Channel is home to other PBS FAST channels as well, including PBS Antiques Road Show, Antiques Road Trip, PBS Food, Julia Child, and PBS Nature.
The Roku Channel is becoming increasingly...
Reggie Bush reinstated as 2005 Heisman Trophy winner after changes in NCAA rules
The University of Southern California had returned the award a decade ago after an NCAA investigation that found Bush received what were then impermissible benefits during his time with the Trojans.
Why Foghorn Leghorn Is Gassing Up Your Favorite Anime And Game Characters
If you’ve been on social media the past few days, you’re probably wondering why Foghorn Leghorn, the boisterous rooster from Looney Tunes, is giving pep talks to your favorite anime and video game characters. It turns out the joke has roots going as far back as 2021, but has gained new life in the past few days.
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:
holy crap, it seems I'm stoned enough to understand Kickstarter instructions that I had been staring at for five days!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server
If you have any interest, please follow. KS algorithms kick in once I have ten followers.
There's also https://mwl.io/ks
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
(If anyone recognizes this UI: it's just an experiment, very much subject to change.)