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Bumble Founder Shares Odd Future of Dating: Your AI Dates My AI (gizmodo.com)

Russia temporarily restricts access to the global network to test its 'sovereign Internet' (news.yahoo.com)

Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago (fortune.com)

Alabama sets nitrogen-gas execution for man who survived botched 2022 effort (www.theguardian.com)

US woman charged with concealing bleach in husband’s coffee avoids jail (www.theguardian.com)

Melody Feliciano Johnson, initially charged in Arizona with attempted murder, receives probation after striking plea deal...

Kristi Noem Now Banned in More Than 90 Percent of All South Dakota Tribal Lands (www.thedailybeast.com)

The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe became the fifth Sioux tribe this year to ban South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem from setting foot in their territory, making Noem an outlaw in more than 16 percent of South Dakota and in more than 90 percent of her state’s tribal lands....

Michael Cohen Was Paid to Fix Trump’s Problems. Now He’s One of Them. (www.nytimes.com)

Critics accuse pro-Israel Republican mega-donors of trying to tip the scales in a Democratic primary (www.salon.com)

Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says (arstechnica.com)

Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation (medium.com)

Pro-Palestinian hunger strike at Princeton University marks 1 week (newjersey.news12.com)

It comes after 13 students were arrested for trespassing late last month during a protest....

Helldivers 2 Community Manager Seemingly Gone After PlayStation Login Meltdown (kotaku.com)

Bungie's first big hit, Marathon, is now free on Steam thanks to a fan revival that has Bungie's blessing (www.pcgamer.com)

UN officials describe "absolutely catastrophic" conditions in Gaza (www.motherjones.com)

Back in Stock? The State of Russia's Defense Industry after Two Years of the War (www.csis.org)

Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during ‘Replay’ moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being...

Trump trial fans show up for 'spectacle' and 'to witness history' (www.bbc.com)

A Scottish woman on vacation. A retiree carrying a Trump puppet. A 22-year-old film producer. A former criminal defence attorney....

At least 43 protesters detained inside parking structure on UCLA campus, police say (abc7.com)

Antivax quacks are continuing to make up fantastical biological mechanisms for COVID-19 vaccine “shedding” (sciencebasedmedicine.org)

‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam (lawandcrime.com)

Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive,...