Israel has carried out airstrikes on Iran, US officials say (www.theguardian.com)
POLITICO: Trump spent the day listening to strangers insult him. And he couldn't say a single thing back. (www.politico.com)
And through it all, Trump has been required to remain seated, not gesturing, not talking and not using his phone. He has not even been allowed to adjust the temperature a few degrees in a courtroom he described as “freezing.”
Ukraine says downs Russian bomber as 8 die in missile attack (www.dw.com)
Ukraine’s military says its forces have destroyed a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber used to attack Ukrainian cities. This comes as Russian missile strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk region are reported to have killed eight people....
House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel (www.nytimes.com)
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
Trump Media alerts Nasdaq to potential market manipulation from 'naked' short selling of DJT stock (www.cnbc.com)
Soldiers Charged With Violent Crimes Will Now Face More Scrutiny Before They Can Simply Leave the Army (www.propublica.org)
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to...
Why Ukraine is losing the war with Russia (www.politico.eu)
ArtToCope - Art that you made to help deal with emotions (lemm.ee)
ArtToCope is a subreddit I followed on Reddit for a long time, and one of the only communities I missed when I completely ditched Reddit for Lemmy. Recently, I talked to the moderator and we agreed that I should make a Lemmy community for it, as they had also wanted to move off Reddit....
France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’ (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli Arab activist Yoseph Haddad attacked at pro-Palestinian protest in NYC (www.jpost.com)
“In the video that went online, Hadad is seen arguing with protesters and then being pushed and punched by a masked protester”
Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’ (www.theguardian.com)
She should have said - well we tried calling first but were on the phone for quite a while- you said our call was important to you and you were ‘experiencing an unusually high volume of calls’…
They're Looting The Internet (www.wheresyoured.at)
This is the state of the modern internet — ultra-profitable platforms outright abdicating any responsibility toward the customer, offering not a “service” or a “portal,” but cramming as many ways to interrupt the user and push them into doing things that make the company money. The greatest lie in tech is that Facebook...
Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Research into release of ‘forever chemicals’ raises concerns about contamination and human exposure along world’s coastlines...
Man Sets Himself on Fire Near Courthouse Where Trump Is on Trial (www.nytimes.com)
Germany’s suppression of the Palestine Congress and the fight against genocide and dictatorship (www.wsws.org)
The 'rushed' attempt to rehabilitate Cities Skylines II is becoming a cautionary tale (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code (womenwhocode.com)
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color (www.theregister.com)
Israeli tourists attack vigil in Cusco in support of Palestine : Peoples Dispatch (peoplesdispatch.org)
Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join the UAW, giving the union a groundbreaking win (www.cnn.com)
Hourly workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee overwhelming voted to join the United Auto Workers late Friday, a major breakthrough in the union’s effort to organize workers at plants nationwide....
Women run 80% of US elections – but are targets of misogyny-laced threats (www.theguardian.com)
Threats lean toward sexual or domestic violence, attacks on their families and criticisms that they can’t do their jobs...
NATO secretary-general says some allies have air defense systems they could give to Ukraine (apnews.com)
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday pressed member countries to give more Patriot missile systems to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated Kyiv’s almost daily appeals for more Western air defense equipment....
Whatever happened to that case in India against the maker of SciHub? (fedia.io)
Did she win it?
