One year after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the court is now weighing whether police violated alleged gunman Luigi Mangione’s Miranda rights.

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excited to see what this means for the project, the poor UI/UX of libreoffice is easily its most glaring flaw imo

Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government records just minutes after being fired from their contractor jobs.

An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn’t consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers’ IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device.

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It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.

Direct link to the subject: https://www.phreeli.com/

The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers “censorship” of Americans’ speech.

The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR.

A female police officer who groped two colleagues at a drunken party has been sacked.

Scientists are raising alarms about the potential influence of artificial intelligence on elections, according to a spate of new studies that warn AI can rig polls and manipulate public opinion.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/31404472

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

An ICE supervisor also admitted during the hearing that he has created and signed arrest warrants for individuals shortly after they were arrested without warrants on multiple occasions

Edit: Me can’t English good

The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support.

“Feel the power”

China’s biggest tree-planting effort is the Great Green Wall in the country’s arid and semi-arid north. Started in 1978, the Great Green Wall was created to slow the expansion of deserts. Over the last five decades, it has helped grow forest cover from about 10% of China’s area in 1949 to more than 25%

Microsoft has dropped its diversity and inclusion report

In a puppy pen in the Art Basel Miami Beach, you can watch Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos make a mess—as if we don’t get enough of that in the real world.

Besides convenience, one of the main benefits of self-driving cars is supposed to be safety.

Freya Allan has spent eight years playing Princess Ciri in Netflix’s blockbuster fantasy ‘The Witcher’ – but the end is approaching

Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Slovenia withdrew from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest on Thursday after organizers declined to hold a vote on Israel’s participation, marking the largest boycott in the competition’s 70-year history.

A Wild West for Crayola prices.

Yesterday I checked out Weapons and was really impressed by how good it was. So today I checked out Barbarian.

Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched this week in New Orleans are aiming to make 5,000 arrests, a target that some city leaders who oppose the operation say is unrealistic and would require detainining more than just violent offenders.

During a June 9 speech, Prime Minister Mark Carney repeated an earlier promise that Canada would be cutting back on using its defence dollars to purchase U.S. military equipment. The U.S. has become increasingly hostile to Canada, with President Donald Trump continuing with economic efforts to punish Canada and to push for this country to become the 51st state.

Crucial consumer-branded products at key retailers, e-tailers and distributors worldwide will seize sales on February 1, 2026 as it repositions to sell its products direct to manufacturing and commercial channels only.

Just an FYI, when I was on twitter years ago, I followed one of the writers of Men in Black, Ed Solomon. (He was half of the duo that created Bill & Ted.)

Linus Torvalds doesn’t usually seek the spotlight, so it was a pleasant surprise to see him appear a few days ago as a guest on another well-known Linus’s show—Canadian YouTube star Linus Sebastian from the Linus Tech Tips (LTT) channel.

We’re cooked.

Guess the Episode

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Horses, a first-person narrative horror game, was banned from the Epic Games Store just hours before it was set to launch on December 2nd. Then, a day after launch, the Humble store (temporarily) banned it as well. The decision shocked the developers at Santa Ragione, makers of the critically respected Saturnalia, as these storefronts were the homes they’d found for their game two years before it was preemptively banned from Steam.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/42958686

I saw this photograph on DeviantArt that just needed painting: https://www.deviantart.com/erezmarom/art/Cold-and-Still-333368468

I hate posting stuff from Instagram but this is pretty relevant.

I don’t know how to get unbanned. I created an account with a wrong username (with typo) a few nights ago, tried again, and failed, gave up. Tried to create an account with a different name/email and got this. Unsure how long this will take to cool off. It said something about “send a mail to explain why you’re creating accounts” before It just shows everything as this.

For over a decade, U.N. aid agencies poured millions into the company despite warnings from human rights advocates.

Based on a leaked video, security researchers alleged that Intellexa staffers have remote live access to their customers’ surveillance systems, allowing them to see hacking targets’ personal data.

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On February 27, 2025, Thailand returned 40 Uyghur refugees to China despite staggering amounts of evidence indicating they were at high risk of torture, enforced disappearance, and other inhuman treatment. Now, Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission found that the Thai Government, National Security Council and Immigration Office violated both international and Thai law, and undermined international confidence in Thailand, affecting Thailand’s global economic and trade relations and its standing among Muslim-majority countries.

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China is not the only source of weapons that likely reach the RSF through the UAE however. Raymond notes that arms produced by Canadian companies, including Sterling Cross and the Streit Group, have also made their way onto the battlefield and into the hands of the RSF.