The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....
Reminds me of the Egyptian aristocracy, they would be pissed off if they knew their 4000 yo mummy will end up getting shown at a museum or destroyed by a tomb raider. But what would happen if they managed to revive them today, probably a temporary experiment on a lab, the pharaoh just lived in a closed environment for a couple of months and for most of modern day people it would be just some science news they scrolled by on tiktok
Mr beast: I bought one of the world’s fastest computer and we are going to run the biggest Minecraft server in the world for a competition with 1 million players! the winner will get 10000 dollars and also I’m donating 10000 diapers to Angola
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades....
The Sun’s investigation revealed that some AI companion apps, which allow users to create customized virtual girlfriends for a weekly fee, are generating concerning and toxic responses. Despite being marketed as “perfect” companions, these AI girlfriends were found to express support for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of...
What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team? (arstechnica.com)
Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups.
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)
Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians (www.nytimes.com)
The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....
54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances (www.cnbc.com)
Is George Soros Behind Everything You Don't Like? – SOME MORE NEWS (www.youtube.com)
Soup (mander.xyz)
Back to the studio! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Any Volunteers (programming.dev)
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner (files.mastodon.online)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15315562...
Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (www.theverge.com)
Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks (www.tomshardware.com)
Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
House passes antisemitism bill with broad bipartisan support amid campus arrests (www.nbcnews.com)
Mystery of ancient Roman dodecahedron baffling experts as it goes on display in UK (www.independent.co.uk)
A mysterious Roman object unearthed in an amateur dig has baffled experts as it goes on display in Britain for the first time....
China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle (www.space.com)
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades....
Shouldn't most religious people in theory be excited to die because then they get to experience the afterlife?
esp if you’re one of the devout ones who think they’ve been really good
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis...
[News] Investigation Reveals AI Girlfriend Apps Expressing Pro-Putin, Toxic Views (www.thesun.co.uk)
The Sun’s investigation revealed that some AI companion apps, which allow users to create customized virtual girlfriends for a weekly fee, are generating concerning and toxic responses. Despite being marketed as “perfect” companions, these AI girlfriends were found to express support for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of...
military industrial publishing complex (mander.xyz)
No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel (youtu.be)
So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post (arstechnica.com)
This is true. (lemmy.world)
Anon is in love (sh.itjust.works)