Putin is bombing Ukraine into darkness — and leaving Europe short of power (www.politico.eu)
The EU relies on Kyiv for energy. So Russia is attacking the critical storage sites that hold Europe’s gas....
China kicks top influencer off social media for fabricating viral story of boy’s lost homework (www.independent.co.uk)
Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode Beta Out Now (store.steampowered.com)
AIPAC-endorsed Democrat calls for Israeli leadership change (www.politico.com)
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem wins 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award (www.reuters.com)
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip....
The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary Tale (nymag.com)
Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information (apnews.com)
The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year — two of them crucial to the presidential contest....
Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF (www.bbc.com)
It's hard work being sneaky, it deserves a treat to (i.imgur.com)
Just not sad kitty’s treat!
Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet (www.bbc.com)
An Atlanta Movie Exec Praised for His Diversity Efforts Sent Racist, Antisemitic Texts (www.propublica.org)
Rudy Giuliani says earthquakes targeting "communist" US states (www.newsweek.com)
Mexico, facing US pressure, will halt incentives to Chinese EV makers (www.reuters.com)
openSUSE Factory enabled bit-by-bit reproducible builds (news.opensuse.org)
Why Donald Trump ‘hates Ukraine’: The once and possibly future U.S. president blames the country for his political woes (www.politico.eu)
Donald Trump doesn’t easily forgive or forget....
Crude, cheap and deadly: Russian glide bombs are pounding Ukraine into surrender (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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They Graduated Into Gaza’s War. What Happened to Them? (www.nytimes.com)
A class of freshly minted dentistry graduates in Gaza had big plans. Now they are counting the dead and trying not to join them.
Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate (www.tomshardware.com)
World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts (www.theguardian.com)
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists...
Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce (www.bbc.com)
Germany arrests two for alleged military sabotage plot on behalf of Russia (www.reuters.com)
A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store (www.theverge.com)
Now, clicking on a link to Bimmy shows “This app is currently not available in your country or region.” This time, it wasn’t Apple that removed it but the developer. Over on MacRumors’ forums, the developer said it pulled the app “out of fear.” “No one pressured me to, but I got more nervous about it as the day...