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Bad Bunny Concert Was Targeted By Mass Shooter, Feds Reveal In Indictment (deadline.com)

False promise of biometrics: Digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost while making fortunes for tech vendors, investigations finds (www.lighthousereports.com)

Some of the world’s poorest countries have been investing heavily in digital ID systems which it is claimed will deliver democratic and development dividends. Africa has been at the forefront of this push supported by the World Bank, UN agencies and the international community. Some of Africa’s most fragile states have been...

Tim Cook is “not 100 percent” sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations (www.theverge.com)

I played Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and talked to its creator about quests that 'don't give you the dragon money' (www.pcgamer.com)

NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Nvidia hope to include their open source kernel driver in the stock kernel in the future. This would mean no more need to make sure that Nvidia driver modules are in sync with the running kernel. And is hopefully a good sign for future open sourcing of the various parts of the driver as a whole.

The FDA reverses its ban on Juul e-cigarettes (www.nbcnews.com)

The Food and Drug Administration announcedThursday that it has reversed its ban on Juul e-cigarettes while it reviews new court decisions and considers updated information provided by the vape maker....

House Republicans launch investigation into news rating group NewsGuard (www.axios.com)

openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/24 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)

Activism Uncensored: Thousands surround White House with two-mile long "red line" banner for Palestine (www.racket.news)

Yellen says China's trade policies could 'interfere significantly' with US bilateral relationship (apnews.com)

Taliban assault on women’s rights continues in Afghanistan, UN says (news.un.org)

On Thursday, UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) spokesperson Liz Throssell revealed that in its latest act of disempowerment, de facto authorities have told women civil servants prohibited from working that despite qualifications or experience, their salaries will now be cut to the lowest level....

The developers of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault are making a 1920s school detective mystery (web.archive.org)

GPU-boosting GDDR7 memory coming this year — SK hynix retracts comments, launching in Q4 (www.tomshardware.com)

DLC Trailer A Dance of Masks | Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Cryptmaster Review [Mandalore Gaming] (yt.artemislena.eu)

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US lawmakers grill Microsoft president over China ties, hacks (www.reuters.com)

Microsoft President Brad Smith fielded questions about the tech giant’s security practices and ties to China at a House homeland security panel on Thursday, a year after alleged China-linked hackers spied on federal emails by hacking the firm....

Chinese #MeToo journalist jailed for five years (www.bbc.com)

A prominent female #MeToo activist in China has been handed a five-year jail sentence for “subversion against the state”....

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Casper Van Dien is loving the Starship Troopers renaissance but still finds it mind-boggling some take it at face value (www.pcgamer.com)

Meet Guy Sims Fitch, a Fake Writer Invented by the US Government (gizmodo.com)

Guy Sims Fitch was created by the United States Information Agency (USIA), America’s official news distribution service for the rest of the world. Today, people find the term “propaganda” to be incredibly loaded and even negative. But employees of the USIA used the term freely and proudly in the 1950s and 60s, believing...

The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. (www.platformer.news)

The future of ChromeOS is using more Android under-the-hood (9to5google.com)

Netanyahu warns Israel 'prepared for very intense action' as IDF weighs Lebanon offensive (www.nbcnews.com)

The FAA is investigating a new incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet in midair (www.npr.org)

Less than an hour after taking off from Phoenix on May 25th, the plane experienced an uncontrolled side-to-side yawing motion known as a Dutch roll while cruising at 32,000 feet. The pilots of Southwest flight 746 were able to regain control and the plane landed safely in Oakland, according to a preliminary report from the FAA....