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Biden Is 'Considering' Ending Assange Case (consortiumnews.com)

Biden is considering Ending Assange Case

Russia sends military trainers, troops to Niger (www.dw.com)

Russian military personnel arrived in Niamey to train their soldiers and set up an air defense system. Russia has been trying to build stronger ties with several African nations currently ruled by military juntas....

Dow tanks 500 points in biggest sell-off of 2024 as JPMorgan slides and inflation fears flare up (www.cnbc.com)

X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)

US says Russian hackers stole federal government emails during Microsoft cyberattack (techcrunch.com)

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that Russian government-backed hackers stole emails from several U.S. federal agencies as a result of an ongoing cyberattack at Microsoft....

TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen2 All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop Gets Faster Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU (9to5linux.com)

TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen2 is here with a faster processor (APU), namely the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS with 8 cores, 16 threads, 24 MB cache, up to 5,1 GHz clock speed, and AMD Radeon 780M integrated graphics. However, the discrete graphics card is unchanged from the first generation, namely the AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics card based on...

Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors (www.theverge.com)

Hormel settles pork price-fixing lawsuits for $11 million (www.startribune.com)

Hormel Foods will pay more than $11 million to settle class-action lawsuits alleging the company worked with other pork producers to illegally fix prices and overcharge customers, according to court records....

Brazil judge opens inquiry into Musk after refusal to block accounts on X (www.reuters.com)

A standoff between Elon Musk and Brazil escalated on Sunday when a Supreme Court judge opened an inquiry into the billionaire after Musk said he would reactivate accounts on the social media platform X that the judge had ordered blocked....

openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/14 & 15 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)

Who are the swing voters in America? | The Economist (www.economist.com)

The two percentage points of vote share that Mr Trump has gained since 2020 come from three sources. The largest group is people who supported Mr Biden last time, but are now undecided, backing minor candidates or not planning to vote, who outnumber those making the same shift from Mr Trump’s camp. These voters account for 0.9...

Labor group demands California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers extend to all sectors (www.foxbusiness.com)

US Billionaires Have Doubled Their Wealth Since 2017 Trump Tax Overhaul (truthout.org)

Billionaires now control 1 out of every 25 dollars of American wealth....

This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born (www.wired.com)

Meet Claudia Sheinbaum, Who May Be Mexico’s First Woman President (www.thenation.com)

Gentoo Linux Becomes a Software in the Public Interest Project Because…Bookkeeping and Taxes (fossforce.com)

New Mexico mental health first responders are increasingly civilians, not police (gazette.com)

Unarmed emergency responders Nevada Sanchez and Sean Martin take a police dispatch call in southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city with high rates of violent crime and police shootings....

The Chief Prosecutor in Elkhart, Indiana, Is Accused of Misconduct for Making Contradictory Allegations (www.propublica.org)

A new motion has accused the elected prosecutor in Elkhart, Indiana, of misconduct, alleging she presented contradictory versions of the truth against two men in connection with a shooting that occurred more than 20 years ago....