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Myanmar groups: Junta broke China-brokered ceasefire (www.manilatimes.net)

Death toll tops 1,000 after Haj marked by extreme heat (www.channelnewsasia.com)

Gilead’s twice-yearly shot to prevent HIV succeeds in late-stage trial, found 100% effective (www.cnbc.com)

DOJ: The state of Alaska discriminates against voters with disabilities (www.motherjones.com)

China’s LNG boom threatened by growing menu of alternative fuels (www.straitstimes.com)

Why Democrats think Biden’s problem is Biden (www.politico.com)

Democrats keep doing surprisingly well in special elections. The party’s most vulnerable Senate incumbents are running ahead of their rivals in key battleground states. One of Democrats’ signature issues — reproductive rights — has repeatedly proved a winning message....

Boeing Starliner return delayed again as mission teams troubleshoot issues | CNN (www.cnn.com)

Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges (futurism.com)

Cross-post from lemmy.world/post/16743494...

Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources (www.newsguardtech.com)

NewsGuard audit finds that 32% of the time, leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive now operating from Moscow, citing his fake local news sites and fabricated claims on YouTube as reliable sources....

Thai Cabinet Formally Approves Bid For BRICS Membership (thediplomat.com)

China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says (www.businessinsider.com)

Xi Jinping accused the US of trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, the Financial Times said....

The Supreme Court upholds a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business interests (apnews.com)

Consolidating Memories with Kendall Hill (southsideweekly.com)

2 climate activists were arrested after spraying orange paint on Stonehenge (www.npr.org)

I seriously think “Just Stop Oil” is a Koch Industries psyop because I’ve never seen so many random acts of cringe backfire this badly

‘Transformative’ third-person shooter Otherskin announced for PC (www.gematsu.com)

E. coli outbreak: 86 people taken to hospital but cases are slowing down (www.standard.co.uk)

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Donald Trump Rambles About AI 'Clean Fakes' While Trying to Call Biden Senile (gizmodo.com)

[ANN] Rook v0.1.3, a secret service backed by a KeePass v2 DB (sr.ht)

Rook provides a secret service a-la secret-tool, keyring, or pass/gopass, except backed by a Keepass v2 kdbx file....

The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked (www.vox.com)

Stonehenge Sprayed With Orange Paint One Day Before Solstice (www.forbes.com)

Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (www.sciencedirect.com)

Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.