Over the past year, Pornhub had to make the difficult decision to block access to users in numerous American states due to newly passed Age Verification laws (Texas, Utah, Arkansas, Virginia, Montana, North Carolina, Mississippi). In July 2024, we will unfortunately be blocking several more states who are introducing similar laws. (Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska.)
More people are turning away from news, describing it as depressing, relentless and boring, a global study suggests.
Almost four in 10 (39%) people worldwide said they sometimes or often actively avoid the news, compared with 29% in 2017, according to the report by Oxford University's Reuters Institute.
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A total of 94,943 adults across 47 countries were surveyed by YouGov in January and February for this year's Digital News Report.
The reason behind the husband's death is equally uncertain, except to say that he died in prison in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) when serving a sentence for the “crime” of accessing overseas websites, one of six men from the same village to leave this world in similar circumstances....
The communications attack continued more widely as Apple complied with a government request to bolt the door on Chinese citizens by denying them the ability to download apps such as Signal, Telegram, Threads and WhatsApp, which previously could have been accessed through virtual private networks.
China has blocked every non-Chinese social app but gets upset when the ban of tiktok is brought up.
If that is how Beijing treats its scientists, its sporting heroes fare little better. Exposed by The New York Times and German television channel ARD, 23 members of the Chinese swimming team for the Tokyo Olympics were revealed to have tested positive for a banned substance prior to the games but were allowed to compete anyway because the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accepted China’s excuse of kitchen contamination without an on-location investigation.
Trying to out do Russian olympic doping...it seems like a competition in it's own right.
Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws ( www.engadget.com )
[Framework News] Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing ( frame.work )
AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent ( arstechnica.com )
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers ( www.wired.com )
[May 29] Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors ( frame.work )
Just sharing in case anybody has been waiting for an update from framework
More people turning away from news, report says ( www.bbc.com )
In China, where authoritarianism is justified by redefining the term, a woman has reportedly been beaten to death during interrogation after accusing police of murdering her husband ( dominotheory.com )
The reason behind the husband's death is equally uncertain, except to say that he died in prison in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) when serving a sentence for the “crime” of accessing overseas websites, one of six men from the same village to leave this world in similar circumstances....