China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending (www.straitstimes.com)
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer (www.youtube.com)
Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% (www.pv-magazine.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...
Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
Samsung is the next company to try to popularize 3D displays (again) (arstechnica.com)
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)
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory (blog.codingconfessions.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...
Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives (www.tomshardware.com)
Canada joins the hunt for rare earths to make chips (www.tomshardware.com)
Deterministically mind-bending! (lemmy.world)
Anybody else using Cursor?
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)
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)
UFO destroys two Israeli Iron Dome missiles, then jets away at Mach 30+ (rumble.com)
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)
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)
