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American Airlines flight attendants say their pay is so low, they fight for airplane meals to save money and sleep in their cars—and they're ready to strike (fortune.com)

US banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads (www.theguardian.com)

Landmark verdict against Chiquita marks first time major US company held liable for funding human rights abuses abroad

Aptoide becomes first non-Apple iOS store (www.gamesindustry.biz)

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360. (www.nytimes.com)

Volvo recalls all of its 72K EX30 cars due to software bug that obscures speedometer (www.theregister.com)

Meta to use Instagram and Facebook posts from as far back as 2007 to train artificial intelligence tools (www.abc.net.au)

Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says (arstechnica.com)

Nearly two in five (37 percent) managers, directors, and executives believe their organization enacted layoffs in the last year because fewer employees than they expected quit during their RTO. And their beliefs are well-founded: One in four (25 percent) VP and C-suite executives and one in five (18 percent) HR pros admit they...

This is the “world’s first” phone call made using spatial audio (www.theverge.com)

Connecting Hobby Project to LLM (hijacked.link)

I love playing with LLMs locally at home. The cost of running hobby projects against paid services like OpenAI is too high for me so in this article you can find out how I work around that to keep my LLM infra deployed locally at home and still use it anywhere I like.

Apple expected to enter AI race with ambitions to overtake the early leaders (apnews.com)

What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week? (www.creativebloq.com)

Key points:...

Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)

Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

Apple’s next nebulous idea: smart home robots (www.theverge.com)

How much should an organisation reveal about a data breach? (www.arrl.org)

There is a growing trend where organisations are strictly limiting the amount of information that they disclose in relation to a data breach. Linked is an ongoing example of such a drip feed of PR friendly motherhood statements....

White House Labels Israel’s Attack That Killed 274 Palestinians as “Successful” (truthout.org)

Israeli forces stormed the dense civilian area of Nuseirat and shot Palestinians on sight, survivors said....

Singapore Airlines offers turbulence victims compensation (www.bbc.com)

The airline said it was offering to pay $10,000 to those who sustained minor injuries.

Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light (www.wired.com)

Rebecca Grossman gets 15 years to life in prison for killing two young boys with her car in Los Angeles (www.courthousenews.com)

Grossman, now 60 years old, was convicted earlier this year of second-degree murder for hitting and killing two young boys with her car four years ago.