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China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns
  • Please. All social media, even Lemmy, is 100% susceptible to psyops and influence. Singling out TikTok as an attack vector is such a boomer take.

  • China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns
  • Yep. There's a tendency to single out China's bad behavior for stuff other world powers (including the U.S. for sure) also do.

    A great example is China's meddling in Canadian politics these last few years. An ex-RCMP official pointed out that a lot of other countries do it, including allies. He singled out Russia and India, but also the U.S. (I mean, how could the U.S. not try to influence their neighbors' politics.)

    But China makes the headlines, every single time.

  • Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included)
  • Made the switch to Aegis a little while back. I like it a lot.

  • Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris
  • Haha, he nearly passes out when he realizes he crashed the game. That kid is amazing.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award
  • Anyone who expected Starfield to win Most Innovative Gameplay, are you offering divination services to the public?

    It was an easy call to make. Steam Awards are voted by the public, so it's all about name recognition.

    The other finalists in that category were Shadow of Doubt, Contraband Police, Remnant II, and Your Only Move Is Hustle. Of all these, I had heard about Starfield and Remnant II.

    I'm sure some of these games are awesome and I want to check them out by virtue of being finalists, but it was pretty clear Starfield was gonna win on brand recognition alone.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award
  • Steam Awards, like any publicly-voted award, is a name recognition contest.

  • Average Lemmy Active Users by Month
  • Active users in the last six months. It will drop off when the usage peak is no longer included in the six-month period.

  • YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser | The delay is intentional, but targeting users who continue using ad blockers, and not tied to any browse...
  • I tried this exact scenario and didn't see any difference in load times. I'm using an ad blocker and it's definitely sluggish, but switching to a Chrome user agent made no difference.

  • California man found guilty of murder for beheading ex-girlfriend with samurai sword
  • It's certainly more portable than a flamberge or partisan.

  • If you looked closely, you could have guessed why China arrested the Two Michaels
  • “Meng did nothing wrong, let her go with a quiet whisper not to come back”

    That was absolutely not my read on it here. It's describing a realpolitik situation where Canada is on shaky legal grounds since they are not a signatory to a foreign embargo, and thus overreach their strict legal obligations to please an ally. The suggestion of letting Meng go isn't about her being right or wrong; it's about what's the savviest move Canada could have made here that would have neither pissed off China nor the U.S.

    Simply refusing to act on behest of the Trump Administration and giving plausible deniability why isn't defying them. It's a neutral political move. The consequence of not doing so is what we've since experienced: deteriorating relations with a major foreign power with no gains in return with the ally we tried to suck up to.

  • If you looked closely, you could have guessed why China arrested the Two Michaels
  • the rest was just tooting China's horn

    Is that what we're calling reporting on facts that don't completely feed the "China bad" narrative, now?

  • You can remove Edge and Bing Search on Windows 11 even if you don't live in Europe
  • Linux users truly are the vegans of the tech world.

  • Steam OS 3.5 Just Got Another Update For The Steam Deck!
  • They update this thing? This is wild!

  • Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision
  • Not disputing your main point, but they fired CEO John Riccitiello over this.

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    Now they're making an Elon Musk biopic.
  • He's the idiot who tried to pressure the devs of Cyberpunk 2077 into letting him appear in the game as himself.

  • SpaceX worker injuries rise as Elon Musk accelerates Mars mission, report says
  • Bold of the media to assume Space X is gonna get anywhere near Mars any time soon.

  • Alleged RCMP leaker says he was tipped off that police targets had 'moles' in law enforcement
  • That counterpart, according to Ortis, briefed him about a "storefront" that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies.

    The plan was to have criminals use the storefront — an online end-to-end encryption service called Tutanota — to allow authorities to collect intelligence about them.

    Wait, WHAT?

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  • We hate cars so much, we've come full circle to parroting fossil fuel industry propaganda against EVs, I see.

  • Donald Trump moves closer to losing Mar-a-Lago
  • I've been reading "Trump is gonna be done any day now" articles since he started gaining steam in the 2016 GOP primaries. Fucker's still free and currently leading the incumbent president in presidential polls.

  • Seriously, though. How often do you think of the Roman Empire?

    I know this is a joke/meme, but I sincerely think of the Roman Empire a surprising amount of times. I find myself obsessing over how Roman citizens were living just as complex lives as we are today, or about Marcus Aurelius' life and philosophy, or about how the Republic fell and became a totalitarian state.

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