Intel awarded $20 billion by US government, advanced CPUs incoming (www.pcgamesn.com)
Microsoft's patent: "systems and methods for ray tracing acceleration structure level of detail processing" (patents.google.com)
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit (www.washingtonpost.com)
Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group....
Did grocery chains take advantage of COVID shortages to raise prices? FTC says yes in new report (www.usatoday.com)
Google, Apple breakups on the agenda as global regulators target tech (www.reuters.com)
Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down on alleged anti-competitive practices that could result in break-up orders to Apple and Alphabet’s Google, a first for the industry....
Blinken: US condemns ‘heinous’ Moscow attack and ‘stands with people of Russia’ (www.theguardian.com)
Statement comes after shooting and fire at Russian concert hall kills more than 100 people and injures more than 100 more...
Halo Infinite added Easy Anti-Cheat - it's enabled for Linux / Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Gunmen in combat fatigues fire on Moscow concert hall crowds, killing and wounding several people (apnews.com)
they make a lot (lemmy.coeus.icu)
Denying Your Medical Care is Big Business in America (www.nytimes.com)
Zelensky on Moscow shooting: Putin's attempts to link it to Ukraine 'absolutely predictable' (kyivindependent.com)
Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
World’s largest oil companies ‘way off track’ on emissions goals, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Despite splashy climate pledges, firms including BP and Saudi Aramco have plans to expand fossil fuel production, says analysis...
Horizon Forbidden West Performance Benchmark Review - 30 GPUs Tested (www.techpowerup.com)
Windows Notepad’s midlife renaissance continues with spellcheck and autocorrect (arstechnica.com)
Now Windows' only built-in text editor, there's more room for Notepad to grow.
‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger (www.aljazeera.com)
Millions of people of Chinese origin are nationals of countries other than China and they don’t back Beijing....
Arkansas airport executive killed in shootout was under investigation for weapons sales (www.nbcnews.com)
Bryan Malinowski, executive director of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, was fatally wounded in a shootout as ATF agents tried to serve a search warrant at his home....
Film sex and nudity to have age ratings tightened for under-15s, BBFC says (www.bbc.com)
The BBFC has carried out its first major audience research for five years....
US embassy in Russia warned Americans about imminent attack by ‘extremists’ weeks ago (www.independent.co.uk)
US embassy on 7 March repeatedly urged all American citizens to leave Russia immediately, giving no further details about nature of threat...
A pro-West diplomat and an ally of populist premier to meet in runoff for Slovakia’s presidency (apnews.com)
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A pro-western career diplomat defeated a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico in the first round of the presidential election Sunday to set up a runoff between the two to decide who will succeed Zuzana Čaputová, the country’s first female president....
Some of nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren in Nigeria’s north are freed after weeks in captivity (apnews.com)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, local officials said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests....
Poland activates air force as western Ukraine and Kyiv come under ‘massive’ Russian attack (www.theguardian.com)
Poland says Russian missile targeting Ukraine’s Lviv region violated its airspace while Kyiv suffers third pre-dawn attack in four days...
Microsoft force-upgrades Mail app to Windows 11’s new Outlook web app (www.windowslatest.com)
This week in KDE: Plasma bug fixes and UI improvements (pointieststick.com)
The bug-fixing continued this week with the aim of getting Plasma 6.0.3 into a great state. Already the big bugs you folks found have almost all been fixed, and this week a lot of time was spent on some X11 regressions and various crashes that our new automatic crash reporting system was able to find (thanks for submitting...
