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  • Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands

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  • Laws are for poor people.

  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

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  • Madagascar floats

    Sideways through the afternoon

    Detecting A. I.

  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

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  • Teenagers aren't really known for making great decisions.

    Source: was once a teenager, made bad decisions.

  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

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  • You'd have to be careful to craft the message in a way that a vision-impaired student would know to ignore it though, since assistive tech like a screenreader would suffer the same flaw. But by making it so outlandish helps.

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • I already switched my devices to Kubuntu.

  • Fishing - Deathbulge

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  • If fishing worked like this I would totally start doing that.

  • Mexico Warns of Diarrhea Risk When Visiting US

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  • I'm all about mocking the American Century of Humiliation brought on by cuts to their food safety system, but in this case isn't there evidence that the contaminated lettuce was originally sourced from Mexico? I'm not super big on trusting any evidence from the MAGA admin but AFAIK that's all we've got.

  • Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment

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  • A modern-ish datacentre AI GPU is worth well into five figures on eBay. The copper wire and "infrastructure equipment" is small potatoes compared to that. Like 100kg of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs would be worth more than those two whole truckloads.

  • Trump White House Says Smithsonian Leadership “Can’t Be Trusted” to Tell American History

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  • The Trump White House can't be trusted to tell American Present.

  • Superman is a moron

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  • Then Donner shouldn't have had Superman flying around the earth in the same direction that the rotation changed to. Like if Superman had been flying around the world North-South, it wouldn't look like he was physically turning the rotation of the planet back with his flying.

  • New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has collected $9m (£6.6m) in unpaid fines from Amazon, which has been violating clean air regulations by leaving engines running on its parked vehicles

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  • Just putting up parking fees everywhere - not great.

    Honestly, this can be good too. I've seen many places where parking is "free" and the end result is that there isn't any parking available other than expensive private lots. The city is robbing itself then: It's diverting the revenue from parking into private hands, which also encourages private parking lots which are an urban blight, and making it less convenient and affordable for business customers while a handful of people squat on the free parking all-day every-day.

    Everybody would be happier if the street had affordably-priced meters. Everybody except for the people who are using that street-side parking all-day every-day, but those people are basically poaching very limited and valuable land from the municipality.

  • New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has collected $9m (£6.6m) in unpaid fines from Amazon, which has been violating clean air regulations by leaving engines running on its parked vehicles

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    An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted

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  • It's 2026, there's no longer an excuse for phone companies being unable to figure out who's paying for the phone line. Make them liable if they can't figure out where the call came from.

  • KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Introduces Plasma Bigscreen Mode for HTPCs

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  • Annoyed at slow release processes since I want this but I also hate the risk of crapping up my system by adding a new source. It'll be a dog's age before I can get it on a stable version of Ubuntu, but I've had so much trouble installing big corpo programs I need on anything but Ubuntu stable that I'm afraid to leave it.

  • KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Introduces Plasma Bigscreen Mode for HTPCs

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  • Reintroduces, really. Iirc it was originally made for plasma 5 and and was broken by changes in Plasma 6. This is "we fixed the stuff we broke".

  • Major Tech company urges universal national service

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  • Compromise: mandatory service for young people, wealth taxes on older people who never had to face mandatory service.

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    side by side with a pope

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    i made this

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • Yeah, Chromecast has been kind of a disaster for Google imho, in that it never got widespread adoption in TVs. If they'd pushed an open standard they might've been able to get that over the finish-line and get buy-in from 3rd parties. But instead every smart TV and smart phone has its own video streaming approach, it seems.

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • Right but I'm specifically referring to devices where their USB-C port is capable of full video out.

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • Yeah, I have a pixel 7 and was disappointed on vacation to learn that its USB-C port can't do video when I wanted to plug it into a hotel room TV.

    I don't get why this is a Pixel thing at all and not an Android thing though. Shouldn't any Android OS device that can do full video output over USB-C be able to do this?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Israeli forces detain Santa Clause in raid on Palestinian Christmas celebration

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/israeli-forces-arrest-santa-clause-raid-palestinian-christmas-celebration
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    Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /news/general-news/dave-chappelle-free-speech-riyadh-saudi-comedy-festival-1236391872/
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    Emma Watson's so typical of the entitled generation who think they're right about everything - like the young woman who rolled her eyes at me the other day

    www.dailymail.co.uk /debate/article-15149311/Emma-Watsons-typical-entitled-generation-think-theyre-right-like-young-woman-rolled-eyes-day-SARAH-VINE.html
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    Meghan McCain slams nepo babies over Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner's daughter's UN speech

    ew.com /meghan-mccain-slams-jennifer-garner-ben-affleck-daughter-violet-11816482
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    Trump Burger Owner to Be Deported for Being Sham Marriage ‘Illegal Alien’

    www.thedailybeast.com /trump-burger-owner-roland-beainy-is-sham-marriage-illegal-immigrant/
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    Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns

    www.theverge.com /notepad-microsoft-newsletter/754647/microsoft-grok-4-roll-out-private-preview-notepad
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Recommendations for a good .ca domain host?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

    www.theverge.com /2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr