DeSantis signs bill banning local heat protections for workers (thehill.com)
Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation (www.theguardian.com)
The Conservative MP under fire for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery is in line for a multimillion-pound payout from the Barbados government....
Ford recalls over 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick cars due to loss of drive power risk (apnews.com)
From Z80 To EZ80: Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 To The TI-84+ CE (hackaday.com)
Trump gripes he can't reject 'unlimited' jurors in New York hush money trial (www.cnbc.com)
Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis (apnews.com)
A single mother of two, Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick’s home to white dust, the cheapest rental she could find for her family and dogs cost $10,000 a month....
TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression (bellard.org)
from fabrice bellard.
An IRC client in your motherboard, written in Rust (axleos.com)
Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University (theintercept.com)
Hafez would seem like an unlikely target for a smear campaign. A well-respected academic researcher in Austria, his work focused on documenting and combating anti-Muslim racism in Europe. He was a co-author of the European Islamophobia Report, a scholarly annual analysis of anti-Muslim discrimination on the continent, and was...
Netanyahu's outraged response after report of pending US sanctions on IDF (www.newsweek.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement condemning sanctions on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after a report surfaced claiming that the Biden administration is set to blacklist a unit for alleged human rights violations in Gaza....
Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet (www.businessinsider.com)
West Bank: Israel investigates after volunteer paramedic killed (www.bbc.com)
The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) said Mohammed Awad Allan, 50, was shot while treating people who had been injured by Israeli settlers....
Pixel 9/9 Pro/XL leaked (rozetked.me)
Pixel 9: with a 6.03-inch screen and a double rear camera. This is the heir to Pixel 8....
Gentoo bans AI-created contributions (lwn.net)
Palestinian Relief Bundle by ghosthunter and 358 others (itch.io)
All proceeds from the Palestinian Relief indie bundle will be donated to the PCRF (Palestine Children’s Relief Fund)....
Fallout games continue seeing big player jumps after the TV series’ success (arstechnica.com)
The EFF is missing the point with the American Privacy Rights Act (www.eff.org)
The EFF has been calling for national private legislation for a while but now that we have something on the table they are criticizing it. They are calling for state level laws but the problem with local laws is that there are 50 different states for companies to try to keep track of. The other problem with local legislation is...
This journalist that made the compilation of the "This is a danger to our democracy" videos is being sued by the DOJ (slrpnk.net)
If you havent seen the compilation video here it is: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xVufYXaGg8...
Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package (www.washingtonpost.com)
Staples plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it (www.thecooldown.com)
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs....
Chad’s government threatens to kick out US troops as Russia expands influence in Africa (edition.cnn.com)
Chad Asks US to Withdraw Troops From Key Outpost Ahead of Election (www.bloomberg.com)
More and more Americans are becoming 'ALICEs.' They can't afford rent and groceries but are falling through the cracks in the country's safety net. (www.businessinsider.com)
Haiti: UN says deaths rising sharply as gangs vie for power (www.dw.com)
A quarterly UN report on the situation in Haiti has logged a 50% increase in deaths in the country. Long plagued by gangs, several of them recently allied to target the unelected government and police more directly....
EU wants to undo Brexit, a little bit, for people 18 to 30 (www.dw.com)
The European Commission argues it was Europe’s students and young graduates who were most affected by Brexit’s mobility restrictions. The UK has reportedly responded cooly to the proposal....
