Unravelling the magic and alchemy of Metacritic (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
McConnell and McCarthy split deepens as GOP divide prompts shutdown fears (www.cnn.com)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy privately delivered a message to Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell this week: The Senate’s bipartisan bill to keep the government open wouldn’t get a vote in his chamber unless significant changes are made....
« Nous voulons proposer un choc d'offre sur le réseau ferroviaire du Grand Ouest » annonce la compagnie Le Train (www.20minutes.fr)
La directrice générale adjointe de la société Le Train, dévoile à « 20 Minutes » la stratégie de cette nouvelle compagnie ferroviaire privée, qui va se lancer dans le Grand Ouest de la France
cats are liquid (gif) (mstdn.social)
Capcom Targets Smartphone Gamers (www.bloomberg.com)
It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation (rocket9labs.com)
Passoires thermiques : Bruno Le Maire ouvre la porte à un report du calendrier de l'interdiction de location (www.francetvinfo.fr) French
One of Putin's guards who denounced the war and fled Russia says he's being pursued even in South America (www.businessinsider.com)
A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth after being stuck in space for just over a year [video, 1 min] (apnews.com)
Canadian Air Force Investigating After Fighter Jet Uses Call Sign ‘DICK69' (themessenger.com)
Lies of P - Update Notes Version 1.2.0.0 - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation, researcher says (www.reuters.com)
After introducing a feature in 2022 for users to report a post they considered misleading about politics, X in the past week removed the “politics” category from its drop-down menu in every jurisdiction but the European Union, said the researcher Reset.Tech Australia....
Anthony Rota resigns as (Canadian) House Speaker amid condemnation for inviting (Ukrainian-Canadian) Nazi veteran to Parliament (www.ctvnews.ca)
Since it unfortunately needs to be said, sharing information critical of Ukrainian nazis is not the same as being pro-Russia. See my previous post to follow that specific form of topic derailment....
US restricts imports from three more Chinese companies tied to forced labor | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for October: The Callisto Protocol, Farming Simulator 22, Weird West (blog.playstation.com)
Microsoft Signs Octopath Traveler 2 for Xbox Game Pass (www.ign.com)
Questionable Content #5144 "Oh Air Canada" (questionablecontent.net)
Become a Plasma 6 Supporter! (kde.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5590471...
India's Right to Know under threat as social media giants bend to censorship (www.indexoncensorship.org)
The big platforms like X, WhatsApp or Facebook are kowtowing to Indian government pressure to censor dissent while hateful content is promoted’...
Dänemark: Abtreibung bis zur 18. Woche? (www.eurotopics.net) German
In Dänemark wird intensiv über eine Erweiterung der Frist für Schwangerschaftsabbrüche diskutiert. Der nationale Ethikrat empfiehlt die Anhebung der Frist von der aktuell 12. auf die 18. Schwangerschaftswoche. Die Presse ist geteilter Meinung.
Monster Rancher 1 - Make any monster without CDs/Optical drive (kbin.social)
I apologize if this isn't cross-posted correctly. New to KBIN and difficult to find how to do this....
Bundesweite Razzia: Rechtsextreme "Artgemeinschaft" verboten (www.tagesschau.de) German
Appreciate his courage (lemmygrad.ml)
Biden admin grants Seattle Children's Hospital $240K for LGBT sex-ed tool (cbsaustin.com)
