www.dw.com
Almost 300,000 people died during pregnancy or childbirth in 2020. That includes the US, where maternal death rates are up. But India's MMR is down.
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U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
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Looking forward to seeing how this develops!
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Threadiverse is still in its nascent stages of development, and it is even earlier stages for kbin. Anyone who have been around in the internet long enough knows that these issues are common at this stage. People who are complaining are failing to realise that this is still just a passion project of a single individual who is really not making any real profits in return, and is not a multi-billion enterprise with server farms of its own across the world. Even Reddit and Twitter had lots of such hiccups when they started out.
Thanks for all the work you are doing, Ernest! Always happy to be here!
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Thank you!
gizmodo.com
The proof-of-concept study suggests it might be possible to boost the effectiveness of hypnosis for health conditions like chronic pain.
www.theverge.com
New laptops and PCs will ship with a dedicated Copilot key.
thewire.in
The Nobel laureate economist was awarded six months of simple or non-rigorous imprisonment. He was immediately granted one-month bail after a furnishing bond of Taka 5,000.
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Thanks for all the hardwork you are putting in! In the long term, you could consider setting up a kbin.social status page?
News and discussions about technology
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
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This is a totally valid argument. Looking forward to see how this progresses.
News and discussions about technology
How Big is YouTube?
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So.. pretty big.
www.bbc.com
The Ministry of Defence says the ship was struck by Ukrainian aircraft carrying guided missiles.
www.theinformation.com
If the market for initial public offerings recovers in the new year, one company that aims to go public early on is Reddit. An IPO will put the spotlight on the prospects for Reddit’s advertising business, which has fallen short of ambitious growth targets outlined by executives two years ago. Reddit expects to finish this year with ad revenue up more than 20% to slightly over $800 million, two people familiar with the matter said. While that’s a faster growth rate than firms like Snap and Pinterest reported, Reddit had said two years ago it aimed to exceed $1 billion in ad revenue by 2023, up from around $350 million in 2021. Ad executives say one reason Reddit fell short was the weakness in the ad market starting early last year, when rising interest rates caused marketers to pull back.
arstechnica.com
Lawmakers fear the NIST will have to rely on companies developing the technology.
cordcuttersnews.com
Do you use Mint Mobile and did you receive a warning about a data breach? You are not alone and sadly, they are real notifications about a data breach that exposed customers’ personal information. According to Mint Mobile, customer information that was exposed in the breach includes: ``` Name Telephone number Email address SIM serial number and IMEI number (a device identifier similar to a serial number) A brief description of service plan purchased ```
apnews.com
More than 20,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel’s war against Hamas, health officials said Friday.
www.straitstimes.com
Cuba becomes part of a handful of countries that allow the practice, which some equate with murder.
arstechnica.com
Google is wrapping its head around the idea of being a generative AI company. The "code red" called in response to ChatGPT has had Googlers scrambling to come up with AI features and ideas. Once all the dust settles on that work, Google might turn inward and try to "optimize" the company with some of its new AI capabilities. With artificial intelligence being the hot new thing, how much of Google's, uh, natural intelligence needs to be there? A report at The Information says that AI might already be taking people's jobs at Google. The report cites people briefed on the plans and says Google intends to "consolidate staff, including through possible layoffs, by reassigning employees at its large customer sales unit who oversee relationships with major advertisers." According to the report, the jobs are being vacated because Google's new AI tools have automated them. The report says a future restructuring was apparently already announced at a department-wide Google Ads meeting last week.
gizmodo.com
The new propulsion system is powered by supersonic technology and can be used for spacecraft journeying from the Moon to Mars.
www.wionews.com
A Nicaragua-bound plane, carrying over 303 Indian passengers, has been grounded by France over suspected 'human trafficking', said the authorities on Friday (Dec 22). As per the Paris prosecutors, on Thursday (Dec 21) the aircraft was detained after an anonymous tipoff. The local officials, in the eastern Marne region on Friday, said that a judicial investigation has been launched into the trip's conditions and purposes.
www.thedailystar.net
Experts liken intensity of bombing campaign in the enclave to WWII; US intel says 40-45pc of munitions used there are 'dumb bombs'
www.politico.com
“That quickly becomes a problem because the most benefit ... is in their favor," one expert said.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
Cryptocurrency scammers are abusing a legitimate Twitter "feature" to promote scams, fake giveaways, and fraudulent Telegram channels used to steal your crypto and NFTs.
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Haha, you are welcome!
thewire.in
The Sanjay Singh panel, backed by the former WFI chief, defeated the panel led by Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anita Sheoran. Sheoran's panel was supported by the wrestlers who accused Brij Bhushan Singh of sexual harassment.
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Also lean ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfen84-dMw
LollerCorleone
9 months ago
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Ikr!
www.youtube.com
Found clips on Tiktok here is the full video
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is ramping up exchanges with folk religious groups in rural Taiwan in an attempt to manipulate political opinion in Beijing's favour ahead of elections next month, according to Taiwan government documents and security officials. Religious trips across the Taiwan Strait increased this year after the end of China's years-long zero COVID policy, according to a review of the websites of the Chinese government, CCP-run religious groups and state media. Dozens of the trips were focused on worship of Mazu, a sea goddess whose 10 million Taiwanese worshippers make her the island's most popular deity. Reuters examined five Taiwanese security documents and interviewed five Taiwanese security officials, as well as five Mazu temple leaders and four analysts. They provided previously unreported details about how CCP officials tried to build ties with religious establishments with inducements such as subsidised trips to China. Some of them spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters. In response, Taiwan has stepped up monitoring of religious activities with China, including Mazu, according to the Mainland Affairs Council, the Taiwanese body responsible for ties with Beijing, and three documents seen by Reuters. The campaign comes ahead of Taiwan's Jan. 13 presidential and legislative elections, which five Taiwanese officials said Beijing is trying to influence in favour of parties supporting closer ties with China. The vote will define the island's relations with Beijing - which claims sovereignty over democratically governed Taiwan - for the next four years.
www.wired.com
Google’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Insiders say the results were mixed, as pressure mounts for a federal privacy law.
www.engadget.com
The ITC has denied Apple's request to pause the Apple Watch ban until its appeal is done.
Reddit Migration
So... it's been a while now since the great exodus. How are you all doing my fellow refugees?
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That's a general issue with the internet, and is not just a fediverse issue. In fact, fediverse gives you the power to move to instances with moderation policies that you like, rather than forcing you to use a centralised platform.
Greentext
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9 months ago
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I chuckled more reading the title of this post than its content
www.lgbtqnation.com
When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online...
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Pretty sure they are already doing that (eg. Pegasus scandal).
www.bbc.com
Venezuela releases a fraudster wanted by the US and 10 Americans, as part of a prisoner swap deal.
arstechnica.com
Samsung says it's doing a big expansion to its self-repair program this month. The repair program launched last year in partnership with iFixit, and now Samsung will be offering parts and repair manuals for more phones in more countries.
gizmodo.com
A group of horse-riding warriors kept some gruesome battle trophies.
www.theverge.com
The ruling follows a similar decision denying patent registrations naming AI as creators
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
These scientists want to put a massive 'sunshade' in orbit to help fight climate change
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That's just crazy.. Its a pretty good show!
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
These scientists want to put a massive 'sunshade' in orbit to help fight climate change
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Wait, is it canceled?
News and discussions about technology
GPT-4 driven robot takes selfies, 'eats' popcorn
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"Thanks to LLM, we are now free from the iterative labor," the authors said.
Now, they can simply provide verbal instructions describing the desired movements and deliver a prompt instructing the LLM to create Python code that runs the Android engine.
Alter3 retains activities in memory, and researchers can refine and adjust its actions, leading to faster, smoother, and more accurate movements over time.
This is a really interesting application of LLM
San Francisco police Sergeant David Radford contacted Tesla in May 2020 with a request on a case: Could the automaker provide data on an alleged stalker’s remote access to a vehicle? A woman had come into the station visibly shaken, according to a police report. She told police that her abusive husband, in violation of a restraining order, was stalking and harassing her using the technology in their 2016 Tesla Model X.
www.engadget.com
Blue Origin’s 24th mission is officially a success. The New Shepard rocket took off as planned this morning and the booster and crew capsule safely separated mid-flight and landed back on this great blue marble we call Earth.
tech.hindustantimes.com
> > > When a Twitter account for Utah business coach Spencer Taggart began posting about hot-button political issues in 2020, it garnered widespread attention. Tweets about an endemic cultural divide in the US and support for Black Lives Matter were shared by two Chinese embassy officials. > > > > But Taggart didn't write the tweets and hasn't been on the social media platform, now called X, in five years. Rather, his identity had been hijacked by a massive pro-China propaganda network, according to the social media analysis firm Graphika. > > > > > Taggart's unusual saga is part of what Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Meta Platforms Inc. say is the largest China-based disinformation campaign ever. Designed to promote Chinese policies, criticize dissidents and mock westerners, it has infiltrated all corners of social media: Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, TripAdvisor, Pinterest, even fringe platforms like Gab, according to researchers. > >
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In addition to mentioning the Nazi death camp, David Azoulai said in a radio interview that Israel should forcibly send Palestinians to refugee camps in Lebanon.
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The ultra HD footage of Taters the cat was sent as the agency tries to improve space communications.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers in October also stole customer-sensitive information from its systems.
www.theverge.com
The first to be funded as part of the Explorers Program, GUSTO will spend at least 55 days floating above Antarctica.
www.theverge.com
Under pressure from regulators, Adobe calls off its plans to acquire a leading competitor. > > > As a result of the termination, Adobe will be required to pay Figma a reverse termination fee of $1 billion in cash. > > Looks like Adobe is losing out on all ends lol
www.scmp.com
Chinese President Xi Jinping asks authorities on Tuesday morning to ‘make every effort’ to treat the injured, repair infrastructure and resettle affected residents.
www.engadget.com
We're about to see what happens when an industry built on failed bets suddenly has to pay back its debts.
indianexpress.com
The Telecommunications Bill, 2023 allows the government to take over telecom services and intercept messages in the interests of national security and in case of emergencies. Here's exactly what the regulation says on the subject.
thewire.in
The suspensions come as both houses saw repeated adjournments amid calls from opposition MPs for a statement from Union home minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament on December 13.
www.theverge.com
Another walled garden is opening up to the new social web.
www.theverge.com
Another walled garden is opening up to the new social web.
World News
Israeli forces kill two Christian women in ‘cold blood’ inside Gaza church
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Israel has already taken over and profits from Palestine's oil and gas reserves
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources
https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves
News and discussions about technology
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms
LollerCorleone
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Same!
Privacy Guides
Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
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You are generalizing too much here. I know many who have tried out a product only after seeing its ad. Ads can give plenty of returns to brands. But targeted ads which even exploits our most intimate conversations are really bad news for our right to privacy.
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Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
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That is not clear yet. But wouldn't be surprised if a large number of them fits the bill.
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Google Will Turn Off Cookies for 30 Million People on January 4
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They will just directly use Chrome instead
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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them
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Nah, they are probably just mad that the rail company didn't come to them for maintainance and went to someone else (who probably was just as good but cheaper). They are just looking for money.
World News
Poll shows Palestinians back Oct. 7 attack on Israel, support for Hamas rises
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Most Palestinians alive today were born into what is practically an open-air prison that is cordoned off by Israel. Being oppressed is all they have known. Its obvious that they hate their colonisers. And all these bombings will only fuel that hatred.
World News
Nations strike deal at COP28 to transition away from fossil fuels
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I mean we couldn't have expected anything else after they chose UAE as the venue.
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I am not sure, if it is part of this problem but I am running into the "Error 50x page" a lot today while upvoting posts.
Entertainment
André Braugher Dies: Star Of ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ & Other Series And Films Was 61
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Rest in peace, Captain Holt!
World News
Sikh couple in Canada likely killed over ‘mistaken identity’
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Hindustan Times is pretty reliable.
World News
Sikh couple in Canada likely killed over ‘mistaken identity’
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Hindustan Times is pretty reliable.
News and discussions about technology
Websites Using AI to 'Undress' Women Receive Unprecedented Traction, Study Finds
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That would be because women are usually the targets of these tools. Also there have been some high profile cases related to morphed pictures in India recently, which is where this news publication is from, in which the victims were women.
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Why scientists are making transparent wood
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This is very important info. Thanks for sharing.
News and discussions about technology
Anthrobots: Tiny biological robots from human cells
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10 months ago
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Same!
News and discussions about technology
Anthrobots: Tiny biological robots from human cells
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This is very cool. I hope the development proceeds further.
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Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator
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There really need to be restrictions put in place mining and sharing of customer data by automakers with emphasis on the principle of data minimisation. Automakers should go back to being hardware manufacturers than wannabe tech companies.
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Yep, its my third language. I am still up to date with most of the new age lingo, but I am afraid I won't be for longer.
World News
Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them
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Yep, they changed it after I posted.
LollerCorleone
10 months ago
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You got no rizz
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[Work In Progress]: Vosh - a third-party screen-reader for the Macintosh | AppleVis
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Sounds like an interesting project. Best of luck!
World News
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels
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This entire summit is a farce.
Android
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10 months ago
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Just installed it. Looks good. Only missing the edit feature that Simple Gallery has.
LollerCorleone
10 months ago
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This is terrible news! I am going to struggle to find a replacement for the gallery app.
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The Cybertruck Must Be Huge—or It Will Dig Tesla’s Grave
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Yeah, I hate how it looks..