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"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says (www.cbsnews.com)

The sub went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic.

Zelensky refuses to hold elections in wartime Ukraine (www.newsweek.com)

If programming languages were weapons. Old but gold. (feddit.it)

Source: so old it’s lost

Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia (www.theguardian.com)

Now is a good time to flood Wikipedia with donations. For the first time in my life, i have just donated to them and will do so again. You can do it too for a minimum of €2, no requirement for recurring donations or any nonsense.

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him (futurism.com)

Sweden raises its terror threat level to high for fear of attacks following recent Qur'an burnings (www.ctvnews.ca)

Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.cnn.com)

The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)

It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month....

Sync for Lemmy - Now Released on Play Store (play.google.com)

Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. (mastodon.social)

The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what’s going on.

Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail (par1.iv.ggtyler.dev)

Fotos: Hier hat es an Mönchengladbachs erster Protected Bike Lane gekracht (rp-online.de) German

Florida Residents Flee State as Insurance Premiums Skyrocket up to 900% (www.newsweek.com)

The skyrocketing cost of insurance premiums in Florida is leading residents to drop their insurance, consider selling their home, and even move out of the state, according to recent reports....

Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI (www.themarysue.com)

Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.

Linus responds to The Problem with LMG (web.archive.org)

Context^piped^^-^^invidious^^-^^lemmy^...

lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] (very.bignutty.xyz)

An update:...

Minnesota trial to remove Trump from 2024 election ballot begins (www.nbcnews.com)

The trial over an effort in Minnesota to keep former President Donald Trump off of the 2024 ballot began Thursday at the state Supreme Court as a similar case continued in Colorado....

Whatsapp is going to run terribly... (www.androidcentral.com)

All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.

Hunter Biden, the son of the president, is indicted on federal gun charges (www.nbcnews.com)

You get a tax break! You get a tax break! You all get a tax break! (lemmus.org)

[ENDED] Giving away TorrentLeech invites. Not selling or trading, they're just yours (www.torrentleech.org)

Hi. Following on from my previous giveaway last month, I now have FOUR TorrentLeech invites that I’m just giving away. No bullshit, just say you want it and it might be yours....

NASA moves a step closer to supersonic passenger flights (www.cnn.com)

In July, Lockheed Martin completed the build of NASA’s X-59 test aircraft, which is designed to turn sonic booms into mere thumps, in the hope of making overland supersonic flight a possibility. Ground tests and a first test flight are planned for later in the year. NASA aims to have enough data to hand over to US regulators...

Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over (arstechnica.com)

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