Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese researchers mull using particle accelerator for chipmaking — researchers claim EUV-like lithography capabilities (www.tomshardware.com)
iOS 18 Hints At A Buttonless Future For iPhone 16, Improved Battery On The Horizon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
The latest iOS 18 update strongly hints that Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup might incorporate the highly anticipated solid-state buttons....
Startup claims it can boost any processor's performance by 100X — Flow Computing introduces its 'CPU 2.0' architecture (www.tomshardware.com)
Southern Baptists Vote to Oppose Use of I.V.F. as ‘Fetal Personhood’ Gains Momentum (www.nytimes.com)
Doom: The Dark Ages is introducing big changes to combat because id Software came to one core realization: "Every projectile mattered in the original Doom" (www.gamesradar.com)
Oklahoma court tosses Tulsa race massacre lawsuit that would have forced city to offer reparations to victims (www.independent.co.uk)
ECJ fines Hungary €200 million for breaking asylum rules (www.dw.com)
The ECJ fines Hungary €200 million for violating European Union asylum rules. Hungary must comply with EU migration policies and pay €1 million per day until it does....
Microsoft QA Contractors Say They Were Laid Off for Attempting to Unionize (www.404media.co)
Four Israeli soldiers killed in explosion of booby-trapped house in Rafah, southern Gaza (archive.is)
Four Israeli soldiers were killed Monday and six wounded in combat in the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
Got no time to code (sh.itjust.works)
Millionaire Investment Banker Jonathan Kaye caught punching, and breaking an unarmed woman's nose during Brooklyn Pride Festival (x.com)
www.moelis.com/our-team/jonathan-kaye/
Why data is being stored in glass and holograms (www.bbc.com)
In a former wallpaper factory in Chiswick, west London, a start-up firm has been developing a long-term storage system that uses lasers to burn tiny holograms into a light-sensitive polymer....
Edward Snowden Echoes Richard Stallman's Warnings On Proprietary Software After User Says 'Adobe Can Not Be Trusted' (www.benzinga.com)
China’s credit engine, which once powered industries and markets all over the world, is stuck in low gear – and set to stay there (www.bloomberg.com)
Data for May due this week is forecast to show a resumption of loan growth after a shock contraction in April, the first for almost two decades. But nobody expects a return to the days when Beijing would engineer borrowing booms to speed up the world’s second-biggest economy....
With Nvidia raking in money with its high-end AI GPUs, its chip-producer TSMC has hinted it could increase its silicon making prices. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Proton 9.0-2 brings better controller support in launchers, more playable games, lots of bug fixes (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Russia Accused of ‘Deliberate Pattern’ of Starvation Tactics Against Ukrainian Civilians in Siege of Mariupol City in Submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC) (globalrightscompliance.com)
The link contains also an version of the report in Ukrainian....
NBA legend Jerry West, whose silhouette is on the league’s logo, dies aged 86 (www.independent.co.uk)
Happy Birthday James Clerk Maxwell! (en.wikipedia.org)
PeerTube 6.1 is out! (joinpeertube.org)
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (abcnews.go.com)
China’s maritime militia: the shadowy armada whose existence Beijing rarely acknowledges (www.theguardian.com)
They look like simple fishing boats but are capable of swarming in huge numbers to help Beijing stake its territorial claims in the South China Sea...
Hamas demands Gaza pullout within a week of truce, also releasing hostage bodies initially (www.haaretz.com)
Sources in Hamas told Haaretz that this was ‘intended to ensure that Israel will not be able to evade all stages of the deal and return to fighting once all the hostages are released.’ Israel said Hamas’ response was tantamount to a rejection of the proposal itself...
