Paramount to Lay Off 800 Staffers as CEO Unveils Broad “Streamlining Costs” Effort (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Paramount Lays Off Hundreds of Workers (www.nytimes.com)
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BBC extends their Mastodon social media trial (www.bbc.co.uk)
How Mastodon made friends with Meta (www.platformer.news)
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
Bonfire Offers Framework for Next-Gen Fediverse Platforms (wedistribute.org)
We recently chatted with two of the devs involved with Bonfire. Honestly, they have some really amazing ideas about building a modular Fediverse platform that developers can build on for their own apps.
3D-Printed Neural Tissue Grows And Functions Like a Human Brain (www.sciencealert.com)
Researchers have created the first functional 3D-printed brain tissue that can develop and form connections in the same way as real human brain tissue.
Lemmy Development Update 2024-02-09 (lemmy.ml)
We should defederate from lemmynsfw (kbin.social)
The mods there have decided to allow underage looking content, skirting close to CP. Unless we want such disgusting stuff on our feed, I think we should defederate from that instance....
Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit (apnews.com)
A jury said Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.
Improve my code - function to sanitize input fields (chat-to.dev)
i created this function to sanitize the input fields on my site, but i need it (the function) to allow the input of some html tags. how can i improve the function to allow this?
Iceland volcano erupts for 3rd time, triggering lava fountains over 200 feet tall (www.livescience.com)
The underground volcano near Grindavík has begun its third major eruption in three months, opening up a 2-mile-long fissure that is pumping out large amounts of lava and ash.
PHP Weekly - February 8th 2024 (mailchi.mp)
Astronauts may be able to make cement using their own pee (www.sciencenews.org)
Lunar dust and a compound found in urine could be used to build future dwellings on the moon, a new study finds.
A four-holed piece of ivory provides a glimpse into ancient rope-making (www.sciencenews.org)
The tool, unearthed in Central Europe, suggests that locals made devices for stringing together sturdy cords over 35,000 years ago, researchers say.
Mystery of moths' warning sound production explained in new study (phys.org)
The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol.
1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world' (www.space.com)
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Apollo 15 Film (film.apollo15hub.org)
Great archival footage and info
[Tips] Here are some shortcuts for your old reddit habits (kbin.social)
Your list of subs, in a grid make sure you set it to private...
Lemmy once again isn't federating properly? (fedia.io)
I get the threads, but there's no votes, no replies. Nothing. None of my comments show up anywhere if I look at the original instances....
Scheduled downtime for fedia.io (fedia.io)
Hello. I will be taking fedia.io offline on Saturday, Feb 3 to rehome it to a different server. Since moving fedia.io to a container-based platform, federation has been very unreliable and slow. I'll be moving to a non-container-based/bare metal install, which should address the federation issues.
PHP Weekly - February 1st 2024 (mailchi.mp)
Byron Allen Makes $30 Billion Bid For Paramount Global In Debt & Equity (deadline.com)
The reported m.o. for Allen would be to sell the Paramount film studio, real estate and IP.