PGA Tour’s Deal With LIV’s Saudi Backers to Be Investigated by the Justice Department (www.wsj.com)
Global temperatures briefly spike above key climate threshold, scientists warn of more extremes (www.pbs.org)
History-making whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has died at 92 (www.npr.org)
Ellsberg's release of what were called the "Pentagon Papers" hastened the end of the Vietnam war, prompted a landmark Supreme Court ruling and contributed to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
Kbin is built on PHP! (kbin.social)
Why don't you come over and join in the development?
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Surge in antisemitic incidents provokes alarm in the US (www.jpost.com)
The rise in antisemitic incidents has prompted rigorous actions from governments and organizations across the Americas, while Africa strengthens its ties with Israel and the Jewish community.
Several iOS apps for kbin / lemmy are now in development! (kbin.social)
There are at least five apps that I know of currently in development for iOS. Unfortunately neither Memmy nor Mlem able to connect to kbin at the moment, something to do with the kbin-specific API from what @ernest, @BrooklynMan, and @gkd have said. Kmoon is specifically being developed for kbin and is multi-platform for iOS and...
Kbin.social passes 30k Monthly Active Users (kbin.social)
It's still tiny numbers in the scheme of things, but also quite a big number for a site that had ~30 users this time last month....
Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent Tesla and Elon Musk critic, PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan (www.cnbc.com)
Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."
African leaders set to meet with presidents of Ukraine, Russia in bid to end war (apnews.com)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Ukraine in a delegation of African leaders and senior officials seeking ways to end Kyiv’s 15-month war with Russia. Ramaphosa’s press service said he was met Friday by a Ukrainian special envoy and South Africa’s ambassador at a rail station near Bucha. That's the...
Twitter Blocks Promotion Of Democrat’s Video Over ‘Abortion Advocacy’ (www.huffpost.com)
“The mention of abortion advocacy is the issue here,” a Twitter employee told North Carolina candidate Rachel Hunt, according to emails HuffPost reviewed.
Judge Cannon jumpstarts oversight of Trump classified documents case with order on security clearances | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
US District Judge Aileen Cannon issued her first order since former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith for allegedly mishandling classified information, instructing the parties to get the ball rolling to obtain security clearances for the lawyers who will need them.
With an new beginning come NEW USERNAMES (kbin.social)
Did you ever wanna have a username but it was taken? Us early adopters to the fediverse can now freely choose nice, untaken usernames!...
Hey guys, this time I really messed up :/ (kbin.social)
I think you should see something....
How to block an instance on a personal level? (kbin.social)
Hi guys, I apologise if this seems obvious but I can’t work it out. How do I defederate an instance I don’t want to see posts from in my feed, if the server is still permitted on my instance? I don’t want to block all federation, just from specific servers....
Wanted: Moderators for /m/PostgreSQL (kbin.social)
Are/were you a moderator at /r/PostgreSQL? Send proof, and I will hand over the keys.
Should PostgreSQL Become Multi-Threaded? (www.percona.com)
Is it time to make PostgreSQL multi-threaded? Peter Zaitsev weighs in.
Waiting for PostgreSQL 16 – Add pg_stat_io view, providing more detailed IO statistics (www.depesz.com)
What’s new in Citus 11.3 & Postgres for multi-tenant SaaS workloads (www.citusdata.com)
All about what’s new in the Citus 11.3 extension to Postgres, with new tenant monitoring features for SaaS workloads, metadata synchronization for those with large numbers of tables, parallel shard rebalancing, MERGE support for co-located distributed tables, and logical decoding for CDC (in preview.)
B.C. man questions 9-year-old's gender in 'gobsmacking' track-and-field incident (www.cbc.ca)
A B.C. family has garnered sympathy online — and international media attention — after sharing what they described as an incident in which a man questioned their nine-year-old daughter's gender during a sporting event.
What is "OC"? (fedia.io)
There's a button when creating a thread which says "OC" with no further explanation. I've seen "OC" noted to the left of thread titles, presumably because somebody has ticked "OC". What does it mean??!
/kbin - a few quick announcements (kbin.social)
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...
Instant Brands — maker of the Instant Pot — files for bankruptcy (www.cbsnews.com)
Since COVID, company has faced "additional global macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges," CEO Ben Gadbois said.