Ariane 6 cost and delays bring European launch industry to a breaking point (arstechnica.com)
Version 1.0.151 for Android released on the Play Store Beta Channel (play.google.com)
Just saw this update in the Play Store. Thank you for coming back to continue updates. Connect is still my preferred Lemmy app....
Big Tech to face tougher rules on targeted political ads in EU (www.reuters.com)
Big Tech firms will face new European Union rules to clearly label political advertising on their platforms, who paid for it and how much and which elections are being targeted, ahead of important votes in the bloc next year.
Opinion: The ruin of becoming a meme (elpais.com)
Spain has exported a handful of powerful memes, some of which have become classics. For example, eccehomo: the failed restoration of a painting in a church in Borja (Zaragoza), by Cecilia Giménez, appeared in newspapers and media around the world. Or the subtitled videos of Risitas, who even starred in a pizza advertisement in...
Star Trek Online and Neverwinter MMO devs Cryptic are the next Embracer-owned studio to suffer layoffs (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Took some clones. (lemmy.world)
Inspired by online dating, AI tool for adoption matchmaking falls short for vulnerable foster kids (apnews.com)
Former social worker Thea Ramirez has developed an artificial intelligence-powered tool that she says helps social service agencies find the best adoptive parents for some of the nation’s most vulnerable kids.
De Bayrou à Dupond-Moretti : pour un ministre en procès, démissionner n'est plus d'actualité (www.france24.com) French
IDF arrests Ahed Tamimi who called for Jews to be slaughtered (m.jpost.com)
Arbeitszeit: Viele Vollzeitbeschäftigte wollen kürzer arbeiten (www.spiegel.de) German
Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/7879294...
The Finals: The Open Beta has come to an end! An unforgettable week for us — a whopping 7.5 MILLION contestants entered the arena. Now it’s time for us to hunker down and get back to work... (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/reachthefinals/…/1721489859552907493...
Jüdische Stimme: Rücktrittsschreiben: Craig Mokhiber, Leiter Der OHCHR-Vertretung In New York. (www.juedische-stimme.de) German
Die “Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost” wurde am 21. Oktober 2007 als Verein gegründet. Am 9. November 2003 wurde in Berlin unter dem Namen “Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost” die Sektion der Föderation “European Jews For A Just Peace” (“Europäische Juden für einen gerechten...
Netflix and Chill (lemmy.zip)
Satellites Make up to 80,000 Flashing Glints Per Hour. It's a Big Problem for Astronomers - Universe Today (www.universetoday.com)
St. Vincent - New York [2017] (yewtu.be)
2017’s Masseducation ,from the enigmatic St. Vincent, was released to universal acclaim. Annie Clark’s credentials include, being a member of Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens’ touring band, as well as other bands, after graduating from the Berklee school of music....
Microsoft offering generative AI tools to its studios (www.eurogamer.net)
A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry (theconversation.com)
We don’t have to look too deeply into history to find parallels to this kind of worldview. Simply put, it is the worldview of colonialism: it sees both nature and other people as domains to be conquered and exploited for “growth”.
Dad of Highland Park parade shooting suspect pleads guilty to reckless conduct for helping son obtain gun (abcnews.go.com)
Channel Billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae), Boondall Wetlands Australia, November 2023 (pixelfed.au)
Image description: A large channel billed cuckoo, high in a tree on an overcast day. The bird is staring straight down its beaks at the photographer, giving it a menacing appearance....
Roblox is introducing Takeshi’s Castle to a whole new generation (web.archive.org)
Blinken discusses sea route for Gaza aid with Cyprus president (www.euractiv.com)
Attendees at Bored Ape NFT event report vision loss and extreme pain (www.theverge.com)
It’s likely because some light fixtures that emit a ton of UV light also look “cool” and get used in the wrong setting. They’re supposed to be for stuff like disinfection. Looks like the bulbs outlining the dj both could be the issue. It wouldn’t be any of the professional fixtures. (Pic in comments because I don’t...
YouTube is testing a mystery button that starts playing random videos (www.androidpolice.com)
The world's boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward (phys.org)
Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped around its ears, covering large portions of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia....
