US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant (www.theregister.com)
A senator has complained that American law enforcement agencies snoop on US citizens and residents, seemingly without regard for the privacy provisions of the Fourth Amendment, under a secret program called the Hemisphere Project that allows police to conduct searches of trillions of phone records.
Militants with ties to the Islamic State group kill at least 14 farmers in an attack in east Congo (apnews.com)
Almost £300,000 raised for delivery driver who intervened in Dublin attack (www.theguardian.com)
BDSM (lemmy.ml)
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giddyup (birdtownandfriends.blogspot.com)
Actually I'm stronger than your dad (fanaticus.social)
SimpleX Chat v5.4 is released (github.com)
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Some of you all take these posts too seriously. Shitpost: confuse, provoke, entertain or otherwise evoke an unproductive reaction (www.urbandictionary.com)
This week in KDE: the Plasma 6 feature freeze approaches (pointieststick.com)
The Wine development release 8.21 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
Tehc (lemmy.world)
Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views (boingboing.net)
New research in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, from University of Kent researchers Louis Bachaud and Sarah Johns, explores how members of various manosphere communities (think Andrew Tate and his ilk) misuse research and concepts from evolutionary psychology to bolster their own misogynistic views.
I love the future (i.imgur.io)
Most private crypto wallet? (kbin.social)
The whole point of me making certain payments with crypto is for it not to be attached to my name. obviously the crypto service company has my cc details. whats the most privacy friendly one? ty :)
Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland (www.theregister.com)
We met project lead David “Fossfreedom” Mohammed and packaging guru Sam Lane from the Ubuntu Budgie team in Rīga, and they passed on news of a rift – and indeed possible divorce – between Budgie and Enlightenment… and it’s caused by Wayland....
Archaeologists Discover Long-Lost Scottish Monastery (www.southampton.ac.uk)
De omnibus dubitandum (lemmy.zip)
Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
Once on the brink of extinction, Lundy Island wild bird numbers soar (www.bbc.com)
Mountain villages fight for future as melting glaciers threaten floods (www.reuters.com)
OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 released – OpenMandriva (www.openmandriva.org)
OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, the long-awaited release of the independent, community controlled distribution’s fixed point release branch (as opposed to its rolling release branch), has been released....
Free eBook about how broken the copyright system is and how we got here (walledculture.org)
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#123 Infrastructure Work · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College – The Markup (themarkup.org)
“After signing into their ACT account, if a student accepted cookies on the following page, Facebook received details on almost everything they clicked on—including scrambled but identifiable data like their first and last name, and whether they’re registering for the ACT. The site even registered clicks about a...