Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot (futurism.com)
Meta's Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican (www.axios.com)
Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)
AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives (arstechnica.com)
Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives (www.tomshardware.com)
"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" into Wikidata SPARQL queries (en.wikipedia.org)
More generally, this kind of task is called "Knowledge Base Question Answering" (KBQA). The authors observe that many benchmarks have been published for it over the last decade, and that recently, the KBQA community has shifted toward using Wikidata as the underlying knowledge base for KBQA datasets. However, they criticize...
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Canada joins the hunt for rare earths to make chips (www.tomshardware.com)
Integrate sex dolls into your life! (www.bestrealdoll.com)
The first step to getting your full size sex doll involved in your life is to treat her like a member of your family. Sex dolls, especially high-quality silicone sex dolls, are designed to be incredibly lifelike. This realism can make the experience feel more real, and by giving her a place in your home, such as in your living...
2024 Brought Even More Customization To Boxes.py (hackaday.com)
[Europe only] This year whatsapp will finally open interoperability ?
due to the new rules of European Union, whatsapp has/had one year - iirc - to open the app to talk with other apps. iirc, this started on February/March of 2024 and we are in 2025. Anyone knows more details or news about it? This is ONLY applicable to European Union countrys, iirc.
Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 | Internet Archive Blogs (blog.archive.org)
Deterministically mind-bending! (lemmy.world)
Anybody else using Cursor?
Mike Shapiro, the person behind G-Man in Half Life, just posted this on Twitter (nitter.poast.org)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b2026e5f-9843-4e41-9c43-8e749691f7b4.png
LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series (9to5google.com)
Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series (www.techspot.com)
Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere (www.livescience.com)
Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide (Talk from 38C3) (media.ccc.de)
9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 (mudkip.me)
I listed things I found positive in tech in 2024, including fields like Linux desktop developments, handheld gaming devices, the fediverse and open platforms.
One NZ launches nationwide D2C texting service with Starlink (www.rcrwireless.com)
UFO destroys two Israeli Iron Dome missiles, then jets away at Mach 30+ (rumble.com)
Peer-to-peer serverless decentralized social media protocol built on The IPFS (lemmy.world)
Plebbit is a selfhosted, opensource, nonprofit social media protocol, this project was created due to wanting to give control of communication and data back to the people....
AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines (www.wired.com)
Starlink to roll out direct-to-cell services in Ukraine - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Right-Wing Figures Allege Censorship on X Amid Visa Controversy (www.pcmag.com)
