news.sky.com Syria's new transitional government announced
Syria's interim president Ahmad al Sharaa has been at the head of a transitional government led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham since the fall of the Assad regime last year.
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml Organic Maps successfully migrates to Forgejo (due to GitHub locking their account to comply with US sanctions)
mastodon.social Organic Maps (@[email protected])GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@[email protected]). Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us: - 54k commits - 9.5k issues - 4.3k pull requests - 100k comments Everything moved. Nothing left behind. https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps
GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).
Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:
- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments
Everything moved. Nothing left behind.
🥂 to the United States' sanctions regime for helping get people to migrate off of GitHub!
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 
www.eff.org A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor MandateIn a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting drug trafficking.
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 
www.theregister.com Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform: €240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI
www.wheresyoured.at Power CutA week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed Statement[s] of Qualificatio...
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Good News @lemmy.ml Hellfire103 @lemmy.ca www.404media.co Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media InvestigationHoopla has emailed librarians saying it’s removing AI-generated books from the platform people use to borrow ebooks from public libraries.
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 
www.theguardian.com ‘Somewhat more critical’: pride in Britain’s history falls sharply in surveySocial attitudes survey finds high levels of pride over sports and the arts but less pride in country’s political influence
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17059476
Pride in Britain’s history has fallen sharply over the past decade as the country has become less nationalistic and jingoistic and more reflective about its place in the modern world, according to a leading barometer of the British public mood.
Although Brexit and immigration have created flashpoints around national identity in recent years, the wider picture shows a more inclusive and self-critical sense of Britishness emerging and a decline in my-country-right-or-wrong views.
While levels of pride in Britain’s achievements in sport and the arts have remained high over the last 10 years, the overall impression is of “a country that is quite proud of itself but maybe no more than that”, the British social attitudes survey found.
There was a striking 22-point fall in the proportion of people saying they were proud of Britain’s history, from 86% to 64%, and a 13-point drop in those who said they would rather b
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml Biden grants clemency to Leonard Peltier, commuting sentence to indefinite house arrest in the last minutes of his presidency
www.mprnews.org Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency by President BidenThe outgoing Biden administration has released Leonard Peltier from prison. Numerous activists and tribal officials have requested the release of Peltier, whom they believe to be innocent of killing two FBI agents in 1975.
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 
www.caitlinjohnst.one Peter Thiel Reveals How Scared Oligarchs Are Of The PeopleListen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
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www.cbsnews.com Biden announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwideThe EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml Apple backs out of investment in OpenAI
arstechnica.com Apple backs out of backing OpenAI, report claimsApple dropped out of the $6.5 billion investment round at the 11th hour.
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses
www.windowscentral.com OpenAI's $3.7 billion in revenue won't save the ChatGPT maker from an imminent $5 billion loss in 2024 — Microsoft and NVIDIA's anticipated round funding might (UPDATED)ChatGPT is driving the rapid growth of OpenAI, but the AI firm is in dire need of funds from investors to extend its lifeline.
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 
arstechnica.com Apple Intelligence and other features won’t launch in the EU this yeariPhone Mirroring and SharePlay screen sharing will also skip the EU for now.
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web.archive.org Global beef production to contractRabobank’s latest beef report projects cattle prices to maintain at current levels.
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml Chat control vote postponed
www.patrick-breyer.de Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence!Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice
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Good News @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml European privacy group nyob ("none of your business") has filed a GDPR complaint against OpenAI about ChatGPT
noyb.eu ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct itnoyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA
