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The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled: U.S. Republicans attacked the lab’s reports on misinformation and election integrity — and now the institution is pulling the plug (www.platformer.news)

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'Crucial for deterring Russian aggression’: New campaign seeks to block TikTok in Ukraine (meduza.io)

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House Republicans' burning problem: 'We desperately need a place to smoke cigars' (www.rawstory.com)

ACE Subpoenas Target IPTV Services, Piracy Apps, and Streaming Portals * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

Carbon majors,122 main responsible for CO2 emissions (www.kaggle.com)

Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use (www.theguardian.com)

Revelation of emails to Imperial College scientists comes amid growing concerns about security risk posed by academic tie-ups with China...

A Rare Win for Free Speech? The Stanford Internet Observatory Closes (www.racket.news)

Federal judge blocks Title IX protections for transgender students in four states (www.advocate.com)

Adobe made a small change to its terms and conditions and that made its users very, very unhappy — scrutinizing data to find illegal content is a risky move (www.techradar.com)

Adobe recently updated its terms of use, and although companies do this all the time, these new changes have sparked a significant amount of discord and discussion among users....

NATO is doing everything it can to prevent peace in Ukraine (antiimperialistnews.substack.com)

Incoming Post editor tied to self-described ‘thief’ who claimed role in his reporting (www.washingtonpost.com)

I’ve posted about this before but now WaPo is covering it

Clearview AI is Offering a Stake in Its Company to the People Whose Photos It Stole (petapixel.com)

Clearview AI, a facial recognition start-up that scraped more than 30 billion photos from social media, can’t afford to pay the settlement bill from its class-action lawsuit so is offering Americans a stake in its company instead....

Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan, kills in 48 hours (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Thread with more comments, didn’t see it before: lemmy.world/post/16594476?scrollToComments=true

Queer dolphins, penguins and bonobos: What science shows (www.axios.com)

It’s Pride month, a good time to share this reminder: It’s natural to be queer in the animal world....

'There Has to Be a Fight': How Workers Can Start Winning the Class War in 2024 and Beyond (www.commondreams.org)

‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right (www.theguardian.com)

More than 171,000 people traveled out-of-state for abortions last year (www.axios.com)

Some 171,300 patients traveled out-of-state for abortions last year, new data estimates from the Guttmacher Institute show. State abortion bans that took effect in the post-Roe era have severely curbed access to reproductive care across the U.S....

House Republicans Propose Renaming Oceans After Donald Trump (dailyboulder.com)

House Republicans have ignited a firestorm with a proposed bill that would rename the vast coastal waters encircling the United States after former President Donald Trump. The legislation, spearheaded by Florida Representative Greg Steube, seeks to rebrand the US Exclusive Economic Zone as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive...

INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern : Weekly Wrap - Lemmy (lemmy.ml)

Australian police accused of 'unnecessary force' against demonstrators who were protesting against China during Chinese premier's visit to parliament (www.sbs.com.au)

- One protester has claimed the Australian Federal Police used “brutalising” force in Canberra, as China’s premier met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and dignitaries at Parliament House....

Daniel Radcliffe Conjures Up His First Tony (www.nytimes.com)

Nato is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the alliance says (www.telegraph.co.uk)