How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. (www.nytimes.com)
If the linked article has a paywall, you can access this archived version instead: archive.ph/aeQhP...
Israeli attack that killed aid workers consistent with multiple precision strikes, analysis shows (www.cnn.com)
Forget Ubisoft's AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making 'AAAAA' Games (insider-gaming.com)
As Israel’s foreign ties falter amid Gaza war, Taiwan sees chance to cosy up to Israel (www.scmp.com)
Taipei views conflict in Middle East as opportunity to learn from Israel’s defence strategy and foster friendly relations...
Israeli military fires two senior officers as report finds strike on aid workers was in ‘violation of commands’ (www.cnn.com)
House Democrats introduce bill to rename Miami federal prison after Trump (abcnews.go.com)
Alabama governor signs law banning diversity programs in schools (www.reuters.com)
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law on Wednesday a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, making the state one of a few to enact broad measures against what she and other Republicans call a leftward tilt in U.S. education....
Solid-state battery cell sets records, can offer over 1,300 mile range (electrek.co)
If this isn’t just corporate hype, this could be great for making smaller batteries, hopefully less resource intensive.
“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvalds (www.yarchive.net)
Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life (www.cbc.ca)
Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies (arstechnica.com)
Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. Why has this happened? The answer highlights a profound flaw in how decisions too often get made in our legal system: for-profit jail telecom companies realized that they could earn more profit from phone and video calls if...
Work permits grow, but undocumented immigrants are left hungry for access (thehill.com)
Desktop Linux Market Share: April 2024 (itsfoss.com)
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‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger (www.aljazeera.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13000698...
Evictions skyrocket nationwide as housing costs rise (www.nbcnews.com)
‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’...
Woman breaks her neck inside St. Clair County Jail, isn't taken to the hospital for days (www.wxyz.com)
‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’...
For years tourists have ridden boats through this sacred Australian natural wonder. A new ban will stop them in their tracks (www.cnn.com)
The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia’s strangest natural attractions, a unique blend of coastal geography and powerful tidal forces that visitors pay big money to see up close....
Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months? (www.bandt.com.au)
If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?
Mexico's president says his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid (apnews.com)
Mexico is breaking off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president who has sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption....
Fredericktown veterinarian charged with sex with a pony, 2 counts of domestic violence (www.knoxpages.com)
Fredericktown veterinarian charged with sex with a pony, 2 counts of domestic violence...
Baltimore bridge salvage: 'This is a game of Jenga you don't want to lose' (www.bbc.com)
US Army Colonel Estee Pinchasin looks out at the thousands of tonnes of twisted, broken steel and concrete jutting out from the dark waters of Maryland’s Patapsco river, and delivers her assessment: an “unforgiving mangled mess”....
C O L O N I Z E (slrpnk.net)
Google's Emoji 15.1 Support In Noto Color Emoji (blog.emojipedia.org)
Seems I missed this, but all the women in my life are going to spam me with 🙂↔️