Premier League Pirates Caught Offside as Police Raid Their Car Wash Base. (torrentfreak.com)
US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules (techcrunch.com)
A federal district court in New York has ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the U.S. border....
Twitter/X kills its Mac app, prompts users to "upgrade" to the X app for iPad, and then accidentally bans users who switch to the iPad version (lifehacker.com)
The death of Twitter, the brand name and not the website, was apparently not quite as final as we all once thought. It might have seemed like the final nail in the coffin was the permanent redirect from Twitter.com to X.com, but one forgotten legacy Twitter product was carrying on the fight—the old Twitter app for Mac, which...
China breaks with Latin America and BRICS allies over Venezuela election fraud: Beijing's unquestioning support of the Maduro government is out of step with its ambitions in Latin America (thediplomat.com)
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Ukraine's desperate need for soldiers spurs exodus of young men (abcnews.go.com)
Man dies parachuting on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon (apnews.com)
A man died at Grand Canyon National Park after attempting the high-risk parachute leap from Yavapai Point on the South Rim, the park said Friday....
On the conditions for mimicking natural selection in chemical systems (www.nature.com)
Vance calls reaction to Trump’s attacks on Harris’s heritage ‘hysterical’ (thehill.com)
That word was not an accident. Because he used it more than once to hammer it in:...
Nipah virus: Kerala state issues alert after 14-year-old dies (www.bbc.com)
Health authorities in India’s Kerala state have issued an alert after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus....
Game Informer Closes After 33 Years (www.retronews.com)
Game Informer, the oldest video game magazine in the U.S., will close after 33 years, the publication announced.
Minutemen - Cohesion (invidious.darkness.services)
Miss South Africa 2024: Chidimma Adetshina's participation sparks nationality row (www.bbc.com)
When law student Chidimma Adetshina clinched a coveted spot as a Miss South Africa finalist, her triumph unleashed a vicious backlash, unearthing a seam of xenophobia that lies close to the surface for some in the country....
No plan for US House to take up KOSA despite Senate passage (www.carolinajournal.com)
I really hate that I have to give Republicans credit for killing this regardless of whatever stupid reason they’ll give for it beyond “concerns.”
Glorious retro FPS 'Selaco' is now Steam Deck Verified and plans many huge gameplay upgrades (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Trump proposed bombing Mexico and it somehow wasn’t a big story (www.vox.com)
Axios: Scoop: Trump stalled Black journalists interview over fact-checking (www.axios.com)
“I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking… we couldn’t compromise on that.”...
Erdogan says Turkey might enter Israel to help Palestinians (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/25901452
The Paris Olympics may look fair and inclusive on TV. The truth is much darker | Rokhaya Diallo (www.theguardian.com)
this unifying narrative introduced an Olympic and Paralympic Games that in reality are not all that inclusive. (…) To make these Games happen, Paris had to undertake a programme of intense social cleansing....
Former Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson arrested on a Japanese warrant from 2012 – what next? (theconversation.com)
With Hezbollah and Hamas assassinations, Netanyahu shows willingness to risk regional war for political survival. (theconversation.com)
Rudy Giuliani agrees to deal to end his bankruptcy case, pay creditors' financial adviser $400k (apnews.com)
Rudy Giuliani has agreed to a last-minute deal to end his personal bankruptcy case and pay about $400,000 to a financial adviser hired by his creditors, avoiding a potential deep-dive into the former New York City mayor’s finances that was threatened by a federal judge....
GameInformer shuts down (www.gameinformer.com) Greek
US recognizes Maduro's opponent as winner in Venezuela election (www.reuters.com)
Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware (www.ghacks.net)
The Linux Mint team has just released Linux Mint 22, a new major version of the free Linux distribution. With Windows 10’s end of support coming up quickly next year, at least some users may consider making the switch to Linux....
Israel’s January 6 moment (www.vox.com)
