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  • Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

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  • Also endless bullshit.

  • Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public

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  • It's just not terrorism, by any normal understanding of that word. It doesn't inflict any terror on anyone, either intentionally or unintentionally, nor does it even attempt to inflict terror.

  • Milk-V Jupiter2 is mini PC with a SpacemiT K3 RISC-V processor

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  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Australian company fined $150M for illegal mining on Indigenous land

    icmagazine.org /australian-company-fined-150m-for-illegal-mining-on-indigenous-land/

  • Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public

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  • Who are they supposed to have been terrorising? On whom did they inflict terror?

  • Former IT contractor convicted for wiping 96 US government databases

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  • Restraint or a realistic sense of how easily they could figure out who did it.

  • UK's Starmer defies calls to quit, says he's getting on with governing

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  • He's doing a Biden, insisting on lingering past his sell-by date so he can appease his ego and hand the country over to fascists.

  • French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety

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  • The article has been withdrawn for being inaccurate.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says

    www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/microsofts-1-billion-kenya-data-center-stalls-over-disagreements-on-power-capacity
  • cybersecurity @infosec.pub
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    Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

    arstechnica.com /security/2026/05/linux-bitten-by-second-severe-vulnerability-in-as-many-weeks/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians

    www.pcgamer.com /gaming-industry/microsoft-fires-head-of-israeli-subsidiary-and-other-managers-over-surveillance-of-palestinians/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine

    www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/georgia-data-center-used-29-million-gallons-of-water

  • Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won’t Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats

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  • It makes sense if it's a party of rich, comfortable, conservative-leaning liberals who aren't really all that bothered by rich fascists running the country, and aren't at all keen to hand any power to poor lefties who hate them and might challenge their privilege.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety

    www.theguardian.com /world/2026/may/11/french-womandoctors-hantavirus-symptoms-hv-hondius

  • Just how much has Canadian travel to the U.S. declined? Researchers suggest it’s more than we thought

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  • I know some older Canadians who still spend every winter in Florida and plan to retire there. They are, of course, white and reasonably wealthy. Myself, I'd rather not live under fascism no matter how sunny the beach is.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won’t Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats

    newrepublic.com /article/210250/trump-virginia-dems-redistricting-war
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Just how much has Canadian travel to the U.S. declined? Researchers suggest it’s more than we thought

    www.ctvnews.ca /world/trumps-tariffs/article/just-how-much-has-canadian-travel-to-the-us-declined-researchers-suggest-its-more-than-we-thought/
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    Former IT contractor convicted for wiping 96 US government databases

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  • According to court evidence, the incident began on Feb. 1, 2025, when Muneeb Akhter asked his brother for the plaintext password of a user who had submitted a complaint through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Public Portal. Sohaib allegedly queried the EEOC database to retrieve the credentials, which were then used to access the victim’s email account without authorization.

    That shouldn't be possible. Why were they storing passwords in plain text?

  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices

    www.androidauthority.com /grapheneos-google-apple-approved-devices-web-warning-3665319/

  • Why are AGI and conscious AI just a marketing scam?

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  • Consciousness is something completely different. It’s what makes you fully feel the present moment. It’s the fact of feeling alive. So it has nothing to do with the ability to crunch numbers or stitch words together into a logical sequence.

    And there’s one fact you can’t get around. Consciousness, in every case observed since we started studying it, only ever appears on biological substrate. Never on non-living matter. Never on stone, never on metal and never on silicon. So it’s a fact that looks an awful lot like a law of nature.

    This bit strikes me as odd. It suggests we've done experiments to check whether consciousness ever occurs in non-biological systems, and concluded that wherever we find consciousness it's in a loving organism. But has anyone done such an experiment? Could they? Do we understand well enough what consciousness is, what it is for it to be present in an entity, and how to test for that empirically, that we can simply do experiments to test when it occurs and draw conclusions about laws of nature involving it?

    You can't do an experiment until you can say, to a good enough approximation, what you're looking for and how you'll tell whether it occurs or not. I doubt we even have a clear enough notion of consciousness to agree on what we're talking about, let alone how to test whether it's present, to do empirical experiments and draw lawlike conclusions. And it's not that we just need to get a bit clearer about the kind of entity consciousness is: it's not even clear that it is an entity in the empirical world.

  • France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

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  • Right now if you use encryption the authorities have no proof you're doing something illegal, because you might not be. But if they make (secure) encryption itself illegal, then anyone they aren't sure about suddenly becomes a criminal they're sure about. Then it's just a matter of selectively prosecuting those whom they most dislike. So it doesn't matter to them that much whether lots of people find a technical workaround. If they can't read your messages that's all they need to be able to silence you if you're inconvenient.

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
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    FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service

    reclaimthenet.org /the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    floofloof @lemmy.ca

    France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

    reclaimthenet.org /france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • They won't understand. 33% of Americans will swallow whatever incoherent excuses he pulls out of his ass on the day. 33% will object. 33% won't be paying attention.

  • ‘The FDA is a complete mess’: Trump makes fate of agency chief unclear as public trust plummits

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  • Looks like they've changed it now.

  • ‘The FDA is a complete mess’: Trump makes fate of agency chief unclear as public trust plummits

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  • Pedantry: plummets, with an e. I miss the days when newspapers employed people to catch stuff like this.

  • Are we the last generation of PC builders? ASUS shipping 5M fewer motherboards, ASRock down 30%, and the chipmakers don't care because AI servers pay better.

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  • Sure. Just do this cheek swab, let us scan your retina and fingerprints, show us your government-issued ID, provide a little blood and a stool sample, and unlock your phone so we can review your social media posts and messages for the last 5 years. We'll need bank statements and a credit history too. If you're approved you can rent shared space on a Chromebook for only $30 per month. Terms and conditions apply.

  • Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional

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  • One calendar year, 10 lived years.

  • Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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  • Sure, you may be able to buy a cheaper motherboard for a while. But you'll pay through the nose to populate it, hence the falling motherboard sales.

  • BREAKING: U.S. Bombs Iranian Coastal City, Reports Fox’s Griffin

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  • The old Israeli approach to ceasefires.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ record high

    www.scientificamerican.com /article/carbon-dioxide-levels-in-the-atmosphere-just-hit-a-depressing-record-high/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

    www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/motherboards/motherboard-sales-collapse-by-more-than-25-percent-as-chipmakers-strangle-enthusiast-pc-market-to-build-more-ai-chips-asus-projected-to-sell-5-million-fewer-boards-in-2025-gigabyte-msi-and-asrock-also-expected-to-see-reduced-sales-numbers
  • World News @lemmy.world
    floofloof @lemmy.ca

    Second US ambassador to Ukraine steps down in less than one year

    www.euronews.com /my-europe/2026/04/29/second-us-ambassador-to-ukraine-steps-down-within-less-than-one-year
  • News @lemmy.world
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    A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York

    www.wired.com /story/a-library-dedicated-solely-to-the-epstein-files-is-opening-in-new-york/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    German vaccine maker BioNTech to cut up to 1,860 jobs, close plants

    dpa-international.com /economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260505-930-36723/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender

    www.theguardian.com /music/2026/may/05/canadian-ashley-macisaac-fiddler-musician-singer-songwriter-sues-google-ai-sex-offender-ntwnfb
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

    www.theregister.com /2026/05/01/buy_a_foss_fondleslab/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    floofloof @lemmy.ca

    Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

    www.theregister.com /2026/05/01/buy_a_foss_fondleslab/