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IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices
Exclusive: 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge
Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’
Internal turmoil rises at company over Israel’s extensive use of its AI and cloud computing services in Gaza war
EU plans to reform data protection rules are tangled mess, privacy advocates warn
Efforts by EU institutions to fix the enforcement gaps in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) risk doing more harm than good, according to privacy advocacy group noyb.
White House says it has tech that can "manipulate time and space"
A comment by White House science adviser Michael Kratsios has gone viral after a speech in which he claimed U.S. technology can “manipulate time and space,” prompting online speculation.
Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, made the remark during a policy address at the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Austin, Texas on April 14.
“Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity,” Kratsios said during prepared remarks published on the official White House website.
While the statement was likely intended as aspirational language about technological progress, it has since circulated widely online, with some interpreting the comment literally.
White House Says It Has Tech That Can 'Manipulate Time and Space'
A speech by science adviser Michael Kratsios has attracted attention from people who think he means the U.S. now has time travel technologyJoe Edwards (Newsweek)
Crap, they found the Democrat's weather controlling space lasers.
Edit: sarcasm, since it doesn't seem to be that clear.
Apple replaced Mythic Quest’s series finale after the show was canceled
You might not be able to check out Mythic Quest’s original series finale.
Apple replaced Mythic Quest’s series finale after the show was canceled
Apple has made the curious decision to pull Mythic Quest’s original series finale after replacing it with an updated version.Charles Pulliam-Moore (The Verge)
ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy'
A few ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems.
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Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)...
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
: Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)...Thomas Claburn (The Register)
White House replaces covid.gov website with 'lab leak' theory
The government-run website covid.gov used to host information about COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment. Now, under President Trump’s purview, the page redirects to a White House website espousing the unproven theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory.
White House replaces covid.gov website with 'lab leak' theory | TechCrunch
The government-run website covid.gov used to host information about COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment. Now, under President Trump's purview, theAmanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
Bluesky may soon add blue check verification
Changes spotted in Bluesky's codebase indicate the app may soon get a blue check verification system, similar to the look of Twitter's.
Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds
Most of 51 brands tested, including those for children, contained dangerous heavy metal
Hard Drives Have Less Environmental Impact Than SSDs, Seagate Says
A new report from Seagate reveals that hard drives significantly outperform solid-state drives in environmental impact metrics, challenging common industry assumptions about storage sustainability. According to Seagate's "Decarbonizing Data" report released this month [PDF], standard hard drives produce just 29.7 kg of embodied carbon dioxide compared to a staggering 4,915 kg for equivalently sized data center SSDs.
Leonardo da Vinci e L’Ultima Cena: misteri, simboli e arte rinascimentale
Leonardo da Vinci e L’Ultima Cena: misteri, simboli e arte rinascimentale
Leonardo da Vinci e “L’Ultima Cena” (1495-1498): tra arte, scienza e mistero "L’Ultima Cena" di Leonardo da Vinci è uno dei p...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Tenant Unions Are Coming. Landlords Aren't Ready.
Tenant Unions Are Coming. Landlords Aren't Ready.
An organizer speaks about collective power in the world of real estate capital.Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)
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I would honestly strike if my tenants unionised lmao
No chance of that happening here tho. I specifically even rent rooms to the immigrants who know fuck all about the local law and won’t play any funny games
Hey all, I'm an absolutely massive wanker, just wanted to share!-Emmie@lemm.ee
Edit: oof, check that post history for more.
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It isn’t my fault that I have to argue with misinformed people every 15 minutes or so
I can assure you that I do rent rooms to immigrants and thus vote for libs because my business depends on the most amount of them flocking to capital
And also I get lowest taxes in this biz like 8% a year when wagies pay 30% or so. It’s comfortable as heck
Seeking negative attention on obscure social media platforms isnt winning, Emmie.
Get help.
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I'm literally crying laughing reading these responses, holy shit people took the bait XD
10/10 trolling, well done you monster
Piece–of–shit landlord doesn’t want repercussions for their piece–of–shit choices on rental agreements. If landlords make profits, they’re leeches on the less fortunate. Maybe look into co-opting the property… or just kill yourself and make the whole society better you fucking loser.
I’m just so over people like you. If we lived in the Neolithic age you would have been stoned to death for not contributing to society.
RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incited backlash after questioning why autism is "only happening in young people" during a televised news briefing.Morgan Music (Latin Times)
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Giotto e la Cappella degli Scrovegni: la Pasqua nella pittura sacra
Giotto e la Cappella degli Scrovegni: la Pasqua nella pittura sacra
Giotto e la Cappella degli Scrovegni: un capolavoro della pittura italiana (1303-1305) Giotto di Bondone è considerato uno dei padri del...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Judge pauses the Republican & Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
A federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump's administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ruled Friday that the bureau can't go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds of employees.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she is "deeply concerned" that Trump administration officials aren't complying with her earlier order that maintains the bureau's existence until she rules on the merits of a lawsuit seeking to preserve it.
During a hearing, Jackson said she will bar officials from carrying out any mass firings or cutting off employees' access to bureau computer systems on Friday.
Judge pauses Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
A federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ruled that the agency can't go forward immediately with plans to mass fire employees.AP via Scripps News (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))
FSU shooting latest: Suspect Phoenix Ikner ‘had white supremacist views’
The suspect in the Florida State University shooting shared white supremacist views with concerned classmates before yesterday’s attack that killed two people and injured six others, it is claimed.
Seybold, the group’s president, told NBC Ikner had been asked to leave because “he espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric and far-right rhetoric”.
FSU shooting latest: Suspected gunman is ‘white supremacist and Trump supporter’ who had tumultuous childhood
Phoenix Ikner was removed from a school political club over ‘far-right rhetoric’ he shared, his classmates claimRhian Lubin (The Independent)
Can it play Doom? - New LLM Benchmark
VideoGameBench [Research Preview]
VideoGameBench is a benchmark for video game VLM agents.www.vgbench.com
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Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime
Hamas has condemned the United States’ air strikes on Yemen’s Ras Issa oil port in Al-Hudaydah province, which killed 38 Yemenis and injured dozens, describing the attack as a war crime and a violation of Yemeni sovereignty, Anadolu reported.
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Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime
Hamas has condemned the United States’ air strikes on Yemen’s Ras Issa oil port in Al-Hudaydah province, which killed 38 Yemenis and injured dozens, describing the attack as a war...Middle East Monitor
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‘It was very overwhelming’: wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks out
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of the man wrongly deported to El Salvador, gives interview after learning he’s alive
China and Cambodia ink deal for massive canal project that has raised environmental concerns
Cambodia and China have signed a $1.2 billion deal to finance an ambitious canal project that aims to boost trade efficiency by linking a branch of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh to a port on the Gulf of Thailand
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Man arrested after kidnapping 10-year-old he met on Roblox and Discord, police say
The 27-year-old man is now being held on a $250,000 bail
The Terrorist Propaganda to Reddit Pipeline: how an ultra-leftist network hijacked some of the biggest non-political subreddits to censor its ideological enemies — and distribute terrorist propaganda
The Terrorist Propaganda to Reddit Pipeline
how an ultra-leftist network hijacked some of the biggest non-political subreddits to censor its ideological enemieswww.piratewires.com
Regulators approve $35bn merger of Capital One and Discover Financial
Acquisition expected to be completed on 18 May after Federal Reserve and currency comptroller sign off on deal
Dr Oz’s swearing-in interrupted when young girl faints in Oval Office
The six-year-old girl was quickly attended to by Dr Oz, who was a highly-regarded surgeon before he became a widely-known television presenter
US | Judge won’t take further steps to enforce his order in AP case against Trump administration
A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press’ from presidential events has refused to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-ap-access-white-house-12ef5a496d3da10d0461641b26dd9d47
A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country
A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges
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US | Federal judge blocks Musk team’s effort to shutter top consumer agency
Order comes a day after the ‘efficiency’ team sent out orders to lay off 1,500 of the agency’s 1,700 employees
Judge approves Harvey Weinstein’s request to sleep at hospital during retrial
Ex-media boss moved from Rikers Island jail to Manhattan hospital as he awaits rape and sexual assault retrial
Trump’s second state visit to UK to be disrupted by ‘even bigger’ protests
Stop Trump coalition to dust off blimp, hoping demonstrations will surpass those during US president’s 2019 visit
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Read Conservative Judge’s Full Opinion Rebuking Trump Administration Over Abrego Garcia Case
Read Conservative Judge’s Full Opinion Rebuking Trump Administration Over Abrego Garcia Case
“This should be shocking,” wrote a conservative appeals court judge of the Administration’s defiance, warning that it is “all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis.”TIME Staff (Time)
Judge denies Sean 'Diddy' Combs' request to delay May 5 trial
A federal judge in New York says the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs will proceed as scheduled in early May despite his lawyer's claims that they need an extra two months to prepare
Microsoft researchers say they've developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs
Microsoft researchers have developed — and released — a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs, including Apple's M2.
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Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK
A pilot project will test whether it is a useful way of fighting climate change.
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Winning the Rank-and-File Vote
Winning the Rank-and-File Vote
A look at recent bottom-up efforts to win endorsements for Bernie Sanders and mobilize trade unionists against Donald Trump offer insights into how the labor movement can better and more democratically engage its members in politics.jacobin.com
[Article] Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends
College women smelled each other’s T-shirts in new study to evaluate “friendship potential.”
Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends
College women smelled each other’s T-shirts in new study to evaluate “friendship potential.”…Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)
Anti-spying phone pouches offered to EU lawmakers for trip to Hungary
Budapest has faced EU scrutiny over the use of spyware against the opposition and civil society in past years.
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