Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat (newrepublic.com)
OpenAI's Altman sidesteps questions about governance, Johansson at UN AI summit (apnews.com)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was a star speaker at the annual AI for Good conference Thursday, addressing the U.N. telecommunications agency’s annual gathering about how to tap the societal promise of artificial intelligence technology....
Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (arstechnica.com)
Ozempic Defined a TikTok Era. Now the App Wants It Gone (www.rollingstone.com)
Phanpy: probably the best mastodon minimal webclient (phanpy.social)
Readme of the project:...
Unanimous Supreme Court Clears Way for N.R.A. to Pursue First Amendment Challenge (www.nytimes.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/kLaFg
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico seeks to join genocide case against Israel amid protests at Israeli embassy (www.tbsnews.net)
US Treasury says US and EU must deliver a "message to China" that its firms can choose between doing business with US and EU economies or equipping Russia with dual-use goods (www.reuters.com)
Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Friday that Washington and the European Union must deliver a message to China that its firms face a choice between doing business with U.S. and EU economies or equipping Russia with dual-use goods....
Authorities in Papua New Guinea search for safer ground for thousands of landslide survivors (www.washingtonpost.com)
Emergency responders say that up to 8,000 people might need to be evacuated as the mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees that crushed the village of Yambali in the nation’s mountainous interior on Friday becomes increasingly unstable....
McDonald's: $18 Big Mac was 'exception' (www.newsnationnow.com)
McDonald’s is fighting back against viral tweets and media reports that it says have exaggerated its price increases....
New York Education Department Hindered an Abuse Investigation at Boarding School for Autistic Youth (www.propublica.org)
In a strongly worded rebuke, a New York judge has ordered the state Education Department to cooperate with an investigation into abuse and neglect at a pricey residential school that draws students with autism from across the country....
Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in hush-money trial | CBC News (web.archive.org)
Is it true that he can still run for the office even if he’s in jail?
Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets (www.propublica.org)
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/13237910...
US sanctions Uganda's parliament speaker, her husband and others over corruption and rights abuses (www.africanews.com)
Among, a senior member of Uganda’s ruling party and an ally of President Yoweri Museveni, has been under the spotlight recently over the source of her wealth as well as allegations relating to the misuse of parliamentary resources. The United Kingdom announced sanctions against her last month, citing corruption....
There's a climate threat lurking in rivers around the world. New research shows where (www.cbc.ca)
Rivers and streams offer far more than pretty scenery or an opportunity for a summertime cool-off. They make up an important component of a global system that determines how much carbon is stored in soil or sent into the atmosphere....
Hundreds of thousands of US internet routers destroyed in newly discovered 2023 hack (finance.yahoo.com)
South Africa heads for coalition as ANC support plunges (www.reuters.com)
South African parties geared up for coalition talks on Friday as the governing African National Congress (ANC) looked set to fall well short of a majority for the first time in 30 years of democracy....
No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached...
Broadcasters group rescinds De Niro award over Trump courthouse presser (thehill.com)
How Israeli Security Nixed Haaretz's Report Into Alleged Mossad Extortion of International Court Prosecutor (www.haaretz.com)
The investigation this week by Britain's The Guardian newspaper revealed an alleged extortion operation led by then-Mossad head Yossi Cohen against then-International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. About two years ago, Haaretz was about to reveal the affair, but an Israeli security official blocked publication. Now...
US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official (www.theguardian.com)
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, had its Google Cloud account wiped out due to some kind of mistake on Google’s end. At the time, UniSuper indicated it had lost everything it had stored with Google, even its backups, and that...
A nurse honored for compassion is fired after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’ in speech (apnews.com)
Labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honored by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza....