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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees (fortune.com)

Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.

Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them (www.phoronix.com)

Linus Torvalds added hidden tabs to Kconfig to challenge parsers that can’t handle them....

Take-Two Reportedly Shutting Down Two Studios As Part Of Latest Layoffs - Report (www.gamespot.com)

Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace (www.businessinsider.com)

It’s true not many people need work, so the lack of open roles isn’t critical to the economy. But not everyone is happy at their job.

Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)

Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show...

Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix (www.pcworld.com)

The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan (abcnews.go.com)

Mystery of ancient Roman dodecahedron baffling experts as it goes on display in UK (www.independent.co.uk)

A mysterious Roman object unearthed in an amateur dig has baffled experts as it goes on display in Britain for the first time....

US says Israeli army units violated human rights (www.bbc.com)

Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement (www.axios.com)

Wisconsin school district says active shooter 'neutralized' outside middle school, lockdown ordered (apnews.com)

De-dollarisation gains traction among Brics (www.khaleejtimes.com)

Harvey Weinstein faces New York retrial after 2020 rape conviction overturned (www.theguardian.com)

Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, says his team is determined to retry case against the disgraced movie mogul...

@pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub (mastodon.social)

Gaming firm Razer ordered to pay over US$1.1 million in US for advertising Zephyr mask as N95-grade (www.channelnewsasia.com)

The fight for full press freedom in Ukraine: ‘We can write what we want, but bad actors try to intimidate us’ (www.theguardian.com)

Kyiv Independent’s Olga Rudenko is set on telling the truth in wartime, despite clumsy instances of state harassment...

Not happening, dude (slrpnk.net)

PeerTube 6.1 is out! (joinpeertube.org)

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Streaming services like Netflix and Peacock have already found multiple ways to aggravate paying subscribers this week....

Palestinian released from Israeli prison describes beatings, sexual abuse and torture (www.haaretz.com)

Among candidates for U.S. sanctions, Israel’s Prison Service should be next on the list. This is apparently the realm where all the sadistic instincts of the minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, find their outlet....

Police Fire Rubber Bullets at UCLA’s Pro-Palestine Protesters (www.thedailybeast.com)

Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly (www.newsweek.com)

Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

This has to be the funniest PR disaster in video game history. “Guy did not forsee players getting mad for locking a gamemode behind a $250 edition, doubles down on it and tells people to chill out”