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A group of 80 South Texas plaintiffs are suing Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, alleging its rocket testing caused “massive” sonic booms that damaged their houses repeatedly over a two-year period.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Southern District of Texas Court on Thursday, accusing the company of gross negligence and trespassing for loud blasts caused by 11 rocket tests from April 2023 to October 2025. Because some of SpaceX’s tests involve 400-foot, two-stage rockets, with both stages capable of landing, tests sometimes subjected residents’ homes to multiple prolonged periods of damaging noise, according to the suit.

During the Starship rocket’s initial launch in 2023, the force of the 33-engine booster destroyed the launch pad and flung debris three quarters of a mile away, which the lawsuit said “violently illustrated” the rocket’s destructive power.

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1t3b1o4/rockstar_games_qa_analyst_reveals_insane_overtime/

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1082923/maslow-s-hierarchy-of-needs

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Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t31dic/big_tech_cut_80000_jobs_and_blamed_ai_experts_say/

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1082877/racist-people-when-they-have-to-sleep-and-all-they-see-is-black

Tl;dr summary: Company lowered the wage of an employee after reassigning him to do lesser work as AI took over parts of his job, employee refuses to accept this, company fires him, court rules this was against the law from the moment the wage was lowered

Yes, it's China. Yes, China has a lot of issues. Yes, companies will try their best to find other ways to get rid of employees. But this still is finally a W in regards to AI BS.

Up until the early 2000s I used to compile my own kernel, carefully selecting only the options that I needed.

Then I realised that I wasn't saving memory, because almost everything was a module anyway.

Is there any actual benefit to using a custom kernel on consumer hardware that's supported by the stock kernels?

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t2xz7z/sam_altman_says_the_quiet_part_out_loud/

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European leaders say President Donald Trump's decision to pull thousands of U.S. troops out of Germany came as a surprise but is further proof that they must take care of their own security.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1082850/when-the-neighbor-s-asshole-kid-picks-up-the-hose-and-points-it-at-a-giant-bee-hive

Can you run Linux on your phone? What are the technical obstacles to be overcome, which projects are working on them and with what funding?

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Japan's child population has shrunk to an estimated 13.29 million as of April 1, down 350,000 from a year earlier and marking a new record low, the government said Monday.