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Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America’s Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it (medium.com)

European elections: Putin’s Twitter bots suspected of promoting Russian sabotage in Europe in support of the German and French far-right (inews.co.uk)

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US calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza with draft UN resolution (www.theguardian.com)

Why investors are doubling down on Truth Social despite Trump's historic conviction (www.npr.org)

HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm (searchengineland.com)

Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam in critical condition after Russian strikes, authorities say (edition.cnn.com)

Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say....

Le croque monsieur - French cuisine (lemmus.org)

Businesswoman Tomasdottir becomes Iceland's next president (www.france24.com)

Businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir was on Sunday declared the winner of Iceland’s presidential election, final results showed, beating former prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir whom critics said was too political for the post.

While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels (www.abc.net.au)

Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)

Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction…So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...

Biden allows Ukraine to hit some targets in Russia with US weapons (www.bbc.com)

Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem (f-droid.org)

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system that includes everything from operating systems, to app stores, to cloud services, messaging apps, email servers and more? A system that puts your privacy first, believes in a...

Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did. (eu.jacksonville.com)

PC Gaming Is Growing Faster Than Consoles, Data Shows (kotaku.com)

Microplastics found in every human testicle in study (www.theguardian.com)

HTTP Cats (http.cat)

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ChatGPT's voice closely resembles Scarlett Johnasson's, says lab analysis (www.npr.org)

Biden sets out new Israeli proposal to end war in Gaza (www.bbc.com)

Ending the Gaza war: Three phase proposal...

11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5 (arstechnica.com)

Get ready for a month of rainbow capitalism (sopuli.xyz)

Boeing executives unlikely to be charged over 737 MAX crashes: Source (www.channelnewsasia.com)

US defense secretary says war with China neither imminent nor unavoidable, stressing need for talks (apnews.com)

Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says (apnews.com)

The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election....