Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites
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    Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

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  • Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict
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    If the police lose, you really lose

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  • Hackney shooting: Girl, 9, critical after four shot in Dalston
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    It’s not at all weird and very easy to explain. The BBC positions itself as an impartial reporter. Anything that appears to be a judgement call by someone else is (quite rightly) put into quotes.

    In this case, I would have simply left out the words “innocent victim “ myself, as it’s a bit odd - but that is the rationale.

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  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly worried about an OpenAI deal with Apple
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    If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

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  • Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president
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    Sentencing July 11 - delayed because the original date would clash with a court appearance in Florida

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  • Rapid rollout of clean technologies makes energy cheaper, not more costly
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    Certainly, if you on an ‘agile’ tariff in the UK it can be a lot cheaper. There were times a few month ago when it was particularly windy - they were paying me to use electricity/charge my solar batteries from the grid.

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  • Kent hosts hundreds of wild beavers, survey finds
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    For me the headline was drowned out by the sound of Beavis and Butthead laughter

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  • humanists.uk

    Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal

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    www.theguardian.com

    Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying

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    [Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going?
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    Not bad. Did the Ride London 60 on Sunday, pondering whether I should try the 100 next year. It went ok

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  • The level of engagement on Reddit these days
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    However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

    There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

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  • The level of engagement on Reddit these days
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    To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

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  • Virginia went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. After Dominion Energy required expensive upgrades, many solar projects were put on hold.
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    It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

    Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

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  • www.bbc.co.uk

    A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.

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    Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory
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    You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites

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  • Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory
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    No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

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  • Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice
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    If you’re on an agile tariff where the price changes ever 30 minutes, it’s a bit of a bummer

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  • Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning
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    Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair

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    If kbin is going down for planned maintenance can the generic ‘ Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure…’ text at least be dated

    It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.

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    London bus and Tube fares frozen as travelcards and caps increase
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    The price of daily and weekly Tube caps increase, along with River Bus services.

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    www.bbc.co.uk

    Vice Media Group filed for bankruptcy in May and was bought by Fortress Investment Group.

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    Tower Hamlets: Inspectors review running of council under mayor Lutfur Rahman
    www.bbc.co.uk

    Government inspectors are being sent in following concerns, says Political Editor Tim Donovan.

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    arstechnica.com

    If you've posted on Reddit, you're likely feeding the future of AI.

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/16/x-meta-china-disinformation/

    X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies.

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    So blimey - what happened there?

    Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I **Really** hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.

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    www.bbc.co.uk

    Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.

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    www.bbc.co.uk

    The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.

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    citizenlab.ca

    A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign PAPERWALL. We attribute the PAPERWALL campaign to Shenzhen Haimaiyunxiang Media Co., Ltd., aka Haimai, a PR firm in China based on digital infrastructure linkages between the firm’s official website and the network. These findings confirm the increasingly important role private firms play in the realm of digital influence operations and the propensity of the Chinese government to make use of them.

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    www.theregister.com

    AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow. AWS cited increasing scarcity and claimed the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address for customer use had risen more than 300 percent over the past few years.

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    arstechnica.com

    US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

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    www.404media.co

    AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

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    Nine injured after 'corrosive substance' thrown in south London
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    Nine people, including children and police officers, are in hospital after a "corrosive substance" was thrown in south London, police say.

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    www.theverge.com

    The Apple Vision Pro is supposed to be the start of a new spatial computing revolution. After several days of testing, it’s clear that it’s the best headset ever made — which is the problem.

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    arstechnica.com

    Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined.

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