29% of US households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are 'one emergency from poverty,' one expert says (www.cnbc.com)
TIL China now has a 3 child policy. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Maximum, that is....
Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools (www.nbcnews.com)
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names....
A Palestinian teen was standing on the street when Israeli troops shot him dead (www.haaretz.com)
A boy stands on a Tul Karm street watching as Israeli troops move toward the city's refugee camp. Soldiers fire shots from hundreds of meters away and one of their bullets slams into the boy's chest. Qais Nasrallah was 14 at his death
Packaging Davinci Resolve into a Flatpak (github.com)
Davinci Resolve is known to be extremely picky about hardware and software. It officially only supports CentOS which doesnt even exist anymore lol. (not entirely correct)...
Barron Trump declines Florida GOP delegate position due to 'prior commitments' (abcnews.go.com)
“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” the Office of Melania Trump wrote in a statement to ABC News.
Australia tries to stop a violence against women 'epidemic', starting with schools (www.bbc.com)
…...
I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun (www.spacebar.news)
Devolver co-founder says large-scale game dev "crushing under its own weight a little bit" (archive.is)
Universities brace for another weekend of graduations following protests, dismantling of encampments (www.nbcnews.com)
During Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s commencement address at Virginia Commonwealth University, dozens of students got out of their seats and walked out.
'Barbaric': Whistleblowers Further Expose Israel's Torture of Detained Palestinians (www.commondreams.org)
A medic who worked at Sde Teiman’s field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped “of anything that resembles human beings” and that the harassment and torture are done not to “gather intelligence” but “out of revenge” for the October 7 attacks....
NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket (arstechnica.com)
Warner Bros. returning ownership of some soon-to-be-delisted Adult Swim titles (delistedgames.com)
I hope more follows
Strong solar storm could disrupt communications and produce northern lights in US (apnews.com)
An unusually strong solar storm headed toward Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. and potentially disrupt communications this weekend....
Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. (www.wsj.com)
Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices...
Men behind the doomsday seed vault in the Arctic win World Food Prize (apnews.com)
As Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin began thinking about ways to prevent starvation and protect the world’s food supply, they came up with what Fowler called “the craziest idea anybody ever had” — a https://apnews.com/general-news-international-news-c7510518d0c9428782d06d0235f5783a built into the side of an Arctic...
Nvidia will be pushing users of recent generation cards to the open source modules rather than their proprietary modules! (forums.developer.nvidia.com)
Chinese police activity in Hungary 'a significant risk to EU security', group of European lawmakers warns (www.reneweuropegroup.eu)
The Hungarian government’s invitation to Chinese police officers to patrol in Hungary poses a threat to European security and in particular the freedoms of Europe’s Chinese diaspora....
2024 Presidential Election Survey (forms.gle)
Want to know where people stand about the presidential candidates.
Pixel 8a gets more expensive: Colors, prices, memory of the new Google phone (winfuture.de)
Eurovision Is Plunged Into Crisis as Deep Political Divisions Intensify (www.rollingstone.com)
Justice system in America (mander.xyz)
Israeli whistleblowers detail horror of shadowy detention facility for Palestinians (www.cnn.com)
General Assembly endorses pathway for full Palestinian statehood at UN (www.middleeasteye.net)
The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favour of granting “new rights and privileges” to the state of Palestine, paving a pathway for full UN-member status....