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The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)

Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)

Mike Macgirvin, the long-time developer that brought us Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, and the Zot protocol, is bringing his most powerful concept to the rest of the Fediverse: Nomadic Identity.

“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them (www.propublica.org)

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NASA astronaut Tom Stafford, famed for U.S.-Soviet orbital handshake, has died at 93 (www.npr.org)

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood (www.theatlantic.com)

By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.

China is now visa-free for Europeans: Take a high-speed train to futuristic cities and fabulous food (www.euronews.com)

Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)

Newsmast Brings Huge New Features in 3.0 Update - Opening Up the Possibility of Custom Feeds for the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

This is an older article, but I’m mostly curious what y’all think about newsmast? Have you used it?

China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover (spectrum.ieee.org)

Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute, EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030. However, according to the World Resources Institute, “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at...

Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say (www.reuters.com)

NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday. … “Even now Bankman-Fried refuses to admit what he did was wrong,” prosecutors wrote in a...

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, who raised alarm over plane quality, is found dead (www.npr.org)

VKD3D-Proton version 2.12 adds NVIDIA Reflex support (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Apple App Store is Riddled With Popular Piracy Brands (torrentfreak.com)

Cuba summons top US diplomat, accuses US of stoking protests (www.reuters.com)

Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves Makes A Strong Case For The Series' Return After 25 Years (www.gamespot.com)

From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up (www.npr.org)

A study published in the British Medical Journal finds people who consume high amounts of these foods have an increased risk of anxiety, depression, obesity, metabolic syndrome, certain cancers including colorectal cancer and premature death....

How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) (www.eff.org)

Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what’s being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies, sometimes without clear knowledge from...