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Trump launched CIA covert influence operation against China ( www.reuters.com )
House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate ( www.nbcnews.com )
Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” ( arstechnica.com )
Republicans complain Joe Biden had too much energy at SOTU ( www.newsweek.com )
I am avoiding linking to the Fox article so as to not send them traffic. Can’t make this stuff up.
Stop the Worsening Undercount of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza ( nader.org )
Warner Bros. Discusses "Volatile" AAA Console Games, Will Lean Into Free-To-Play And Mobile ( www.gamespot.com )
My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog ( jewy.blog )
I made a blog post discussing my biggest issues with Lemmy and why I am kind of done with it as a software.
OpenTalk - Videoconferencing secure and GDPR compliant (Jitsi alternative, written in Rust) ( opentalk.eu )
https://gitlab.opencode.de/opentalk
Signal Blog: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames ( signal.org )
Finally, we can have usernames in Signal instead of giving our phone number to everybody.
Vladimir Putin upgrades rank of Russian Penitentiary Service deputy head three days after Navalny’s death in prison ( meduza.io )
Vladimir Putin has decorated Valery Boyarinev, the deputy director of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), with the rank of colonel general. The accolade comes just days after opposition leader Alexey Navalny died in prison.
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants - BBC Worklife ( www.bbc.com )
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants...
Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material ( www.computerweekly.com )
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company Anthropic has claimed to a US court that using copyrighted content in large language model (LLM) training data counts as “fair use”, however....
Top UN court orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of ordering cease-fire ( apnews.com )
Here is a pdf of the ICJ's Order of 26 January 2024....
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Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 21st
Hey y'all, what have you been playing?...
Your next Windows PC may need at least 16GB of RAM ( www.ghacks.net )
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is first-person, stealthy, and coming 2024 ( www.rockpapershotgun.com )
China, new series of forced televised confessions highlights CCP’s increased crackdown over vast swathes of society under the guise of “anti-corruption” work, rights group says ( safeguarddefenders.com )
Cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/11137234...
The Worst Devices of CES 2024! By iFixIt ( piped.video )
Piped link: https://piped.video/watch?v=NXhmnQzZ7n8...
Billy Mitchell has surrendered ( perfectpacman.com )
Billy Mitchell didn't win his defamation lawsuit against Twin Galaxies. Not only was Billy not in a position to get a financial settlement, Billy's cheated Donkey Kong scores were not reinstated(as he's claiming), and his claimed Pac-Man score from 1999 is also not on the main scoreboards. What had happened is that the score is...
Why is AI Pornifying Asian Women? ( joysauce.com )
War Hospital, out now, is a tug-of-war between empathy and efficiency ( www.rockpapershotgun.com )
‘It’s difficult to survive’: China’s LGBTQ+ advocates face jail and forced confession ( www.theguardian.com )
In recent years, China’s LGBTQ+ community has been swept up in the Chinese Communist party’s broader crackdown on civil society and freedom of expression. In May 2023, a well known LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Beijing announced it was closing due to “unavoidable” circumstances. Last February, two university students filed a...
Palestine Has Exposed How Our Governments Work for Their Own Interests, Not Ours. ( truthout.org )
Biden "running out" of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days ( www.axios.com )
As I have repeatedly said... Just because Biden has repeated the US company line of unequivocal support for Israel, etc etc (Because even among democrats it's political suicide to say anything else). That doesn't mean that he hasn't been trying the entire time to get Israel to stop the bullshit. This is more or less a point for...
What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?
When talking about the best games of all time people generally mention Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario 64, Halo 3, The Last of Us, Nier Automata, etc. , but dismiss other great games....
None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway ( conspirator0.substack.com )
Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic....
Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines ( proton.me )
iPhone sideloading seems a certainty for European users - here's the latest development ( bgr.com )
In a Setback for Beijing, Taiwan Elects Lai Ching-te as President ( www.nytimes.com )
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/11011730...
Valve: Most games made with AI tools are now welcome on Steam ( arstechnica.com )
Well shit...