Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Walmart to begin driverless deliveries with Ford and Argo AI - Enlarge / A human collects their Walmart delivery from an autonomous delivery veh... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1795485 #uncategorized #cars

Bitcoin consumes 2nd highest electricity per capita
https://twitter.com/chinmayshah899/status/1436077836155056134

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5 real AI threats that make The Terminator look like Kindergarten Cop - It. Never. Fails. Every time an AI article finds its way to social media there’s h... - https://thenextweb.com/news/5-ai-threats-make-terminator-look-like-kindergartern-cop #artificialintelligence #nextfeatured #microsoft #facebook #neural #google #amazon #apple #tech

All four Inspiration4 crew members have taken their seats inside the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft.

Launch of the first all-private, non-government human space mission to orbit is set for 8:02:56pm EDT (0002:56 GMT).

Watch live: https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/15/falcon-9-inspiration-4-mission-status-center/ https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1438253343986655237/video/1
#newsbot

The sixty-third edition of my weekly collection of news about #LinuxPhones (@PINE64 #PinePhone, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!

https://linmob.net/linbits-62-weekly-linux-phone-news-week36-37/

#Megapixels with more contrast, easy installable #Waydroid on #DanctNIX and #postmarketOS, #Librem5 pricing increases and more!

Isaacman, Proctor, Arceneaux, and Sembroski — call signs “Rook,” “Leo,” “Nova,” and “Hanks” — have completed voice checks with SpaceX ground teams in California and Florida.

Launch is on schedule for 8:02:56pm EDT (0002:56 GMT) from Kennedy Space Center.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/15/falcon-9-inspiration-4-mission-status-center/ https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1438256735668604934/video/1
#newsbot

Why not Signal?

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html
#newsbot

The Magic Behind the Scenes of Docker Desktop
https://www.docker.com/blog/the-magic-behind-the-scenes-of-docker-desktop/

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A first impression of the upcoming Briar desktop client

We found a phone with pre-installed malware via the Lifeline Assistance program
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/android/2020/07/we-found-yet-another-phone-with-pre-installed-malware-via-the-lifeline-assistance-program/

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Software News: The Wine project has released version 6.17 https://freshfoss.com/projects/wine/

Watching #UBports #UbuntuTouch Q&A 108 right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS5BlUpqT1s

I'm not sure how often this happening and for what reason it is, but here more examples of FB marking Mastodon related links as spam: https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/106916230772511960 #mastodon #facebook #spam #link

Why is IRC distributed across multiple servers?
https://gist.github.com/rain-1/c4be54e6506116c7b99e8f474a3b1ca8

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Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936131/

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Epic trial forces App Store changes, Android 12 launch nears, Twitter tries communities - Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the la... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Xo9jSXJhiLQ/ #apps #tc

With sales momentum, Bookshop.org looks to future in its fight with Amazon - If Gutenberg were alive today, he’d be a very busy angel investor.
With book sales... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TMS-RtJcj-4/ #bingebooks #ecommerce #litcharts #startups #bookclub #literati #amazon #books #glose #epic

PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams
https://pipewire.org/

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Package Release: 09/06 firefox 92.0 Mozilla Firefox: a web browser for Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Android http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Analysis: mining bitcoin uses 91 TW/h of electricity annually, ~0.5% of all electricity consumed globally or 7x Google's total usage, and grew 10x in five years (New York Times) - New York Times:
Analysis: mining bitcoin uses 91 TW/h of electricity annually, ~0.5% of... - http://www.techmeme.com/210906/p5#a210906p5