Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' (www.thecooldown.com)
The decisive decade: Understanding the trajectories of 14- to 24-year-olds (www.brookings.edu)
US food regulator gathering information on Indian spices after alleged contamination (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is gathering information on products of Indian spice makers MDH and Everest after Hong Kong halted sales of some of their products for allegedly containing high levels of a cancer-causing pesticide....
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir’s car flips over after running red light, minister lightly injured (www.timesofisrael.com)
New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually (apnews.com)
Doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies in California will be limited to annual price increases of 3% starting in 2029 under a new rule state regulators approved Wednesday in the latest attempt to corral the ever-increasing costs of medical care in the United States....
What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet (www.nytimes.com)
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
Milei trumpets quarterly budget surplus in TV address | Buenos Aires Times (www.batimes.com.ar)
White House bolsters transgender health protections, rolls back Trump admin rule (thehill.com)
U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
ImageLate January, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a ‘Know Your Customer’ regime for companies operating cloud services, with the goal of countering the activities of...
Dome Keeper is getting a major content update and multiplayer is coming (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Dragon's Dogma 2 Path Tracing [Digital Foundry] (piped.video)
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Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit (blog.joinmastodon.org)
Phoenix Point Terror from the Void is a fan-made comprehensive reworking of the XCOM (www.pcgamesn.com)
Tecno Camon 30 Premier review (m.gsmarena.com)
NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr further signs that the open source Nvidia driver stack on Linux is getting semi-official support
Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat (canonical.com)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS delivers the latest Linux 6.8 kernel with improved syscall performance, nested KVM support on ppc64el, and access to the newly landed bcachefs filesystem. In addition to upstream improvements, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has merged low-latency kernel features into the default kernel, reducing kernel task scheduling delays....
Introducing selfh.st/companions, a Directory of Companion Apps for Self-Hosted Software (selfh.st)
Not my website. Interested to see how this will play out though!
Compassion is making a comeback in America (www.vox.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14623597
UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones (www.bbc.com)
EU pulls its gun on China: The EU is accelerating its crackdown on what it sees as Beijing’s unfair support for companies that undermine European rivals (www.politico.eu)
Europe’s phoney war with China is at an end. After years of building up an improved arsenal for a trade war, Europe is now showing it is willing to get tough on Beijing....
Raspberry Pi CM5 Forward Guidance released (pip.raspberrypi.com)
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 will have the following features....
Ukraine pulls US Abrams tanks from battlefield amid Russian drone threat (kyivindependent.com)
How China is trying to turn Xinjiang from concentration camp into tourist paradise: Checks at every step contradict the 'prosperous region' narrative (globalvoices.org)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11411011...
Tesla’s profits sink as the company struggles with cooling demand (www.theverge.com)
Iran: Rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death, says lawyer (www.dw.com)
Popular rapper Toomaj Salehi wrote songs in support of the protest movement in Iran following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in 2022. He has been in jail for over a year....
