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Jon Stewart Skewers AI Industry for Salivating Over Replacing Jobs (futurism.com)

NASA needs your smartphone during April's solar eclipse (www.popsci.com)

Yellen Faces Diplomatic Test in Urging China to Curb Green Energy Exports (www.nytimes.com)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8375539...

Suicide Squad Hackers Break Game To Play As Unreleased Characters (kotaku.com)

Germany: Violent crime reaches 15-year high — report (www.dw.com)

Germany recorded a large rise in violent crime in 2023, the first year without pandemic restrictions, police statistics published Saturday showed....

European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches (www.politico.eu)

Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority....

On Computer Games [free retro magazine] (archive.org)

On Computer Games Monthly #1...

chalk art (catodon.social)

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined (lemmy.world)

Ben-Gvir rejects holding those who killed WCK staff accountable (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir on Friday rejected measures to hold the officers responsible for the killing of the World Central Kitchen crew in the central Gaza Strip on Monday accountable....

KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync (www.phoronix.com)

Original blog: zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/…/explicit-sync.html

‘I’m trying to give you a better deal’: Customer pulls gun on Burger King employee for giving him a discount (www.firstalert4.com)

A dangerous return to denial: Trump's threats against Biden met by familiar media shrug (www.salon.com)

What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses (www.theatlantic.com)

Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague (www.ft.com)

Bing cache past the paywall...

Our god is ever hungry (slrpnk.net)

Population tipping point could arrive by 2030: global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than expected. (www.science.org)

Israeli forces kill Palestinian collecting aid (www.aljazeera.com)

Israeli Spy Chief Accidentally Blows Cover with Amazon Self-Publishing (newrepublic.com)

Ubuntu 24.04 Improves Power Efficiency on Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

New York AG questions whether California company can handle Trump's $175M bond (abcnews.go.com)

Letitia James asked the firm to show it’s capable of paying the bond if needed....

Is this a boondoggle or is it actually useful investment? (www.epa.gov)

It seems to me these giant grants to a small number of organizations (Climate United Fund, Coalition for Green Capital, Power Forward Communities) seems like it could be delivering pork to well-connected people. Is this actually going to produce “clean” energy and help disadvantaged people? These seem like very large awards...