Elevated mpox cases spur efforts to avoid summer spread, vaccination rates lag (thehill.com)
The games are rigged here (i.imgur.com)
That remains to be seen (sopuli.xyz)
Kansas women allegedly killed by group calling themselves 'God's misfits' (www.bbc.com)
This is a teenager (pudding.cool)
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)
Most Student Loan Borrowers Have Delayed Major Life Events (news.gallup.com)
Ukraine's military chief warns of 'significantly' worsening battlefield situation in the east | AP News (apnews.com)
EU plans sanctions, urges calm after Tehran strikes Israel (www.dw.com)
The bloc seems poised to widen existing punitive measures on Iranian drone production, but branding the IRGC security force a terrorist organization in the EU is more divisive. Most eyes are on Washington....
Johnson Needs Democrats on Ukraine, Handing Them Power to Shape Aid Plan (www.nytimes.com)
Speaker Mike Johnson’s elaborate plan for pushing aid to Ukraine through the House over his own party’s objections relies on an unusual strategy: He is counting on House Democrats and their leader, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, to provide the votes necessary to clear the way for it to come to the floor....
North Carolina university committee swiftly passes policy change that could cut diversity staff (apnews.com)
The future of diversity, equity and inclusion staff jobs in North Carolina’s public university system could be at stake after a five-person committee swiftly voted to repeal a key policy Wednesday....
D&D makers also want a Baldur’s Gate 4, but say they won't rush to a sequel (it shouldn't take 25 years, mind) (web.archive.org)
NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine (www.bloomberg.com)
Indonesia volcano eruption sparks tsunami fears (www.theguardian.com)
Mount Ruang has repeatedly erupted, and officials fear it could collapse and create a tsunami, with hundreds evacuated from the area...
Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘dangerous individual’ - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
Multiple Facebook users have reported being banned, or having their posts censored, after sharing an investigation by The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg into CIA and MI6 involvement in the creation of ISIS. Readers who post links to the piece on the social network find themselves frozen out of their accounts, on the apparent...
North Korea Advances in Bioweapons? (www.state.gov)
Several globally recognized media outlets have reported this week that based on the U.S. release of the 2024 Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments there is proof that North Korea has bioweapons that they didn’t have before. I tracked down the actual report,...
Trio found guilty of mischief for roles in 2022 Coutts border blockade (www.cbc.ca)
Three men accused by the Crown of helping lead and coordinate the COVID-19 protest blockade at Coutts, Alta., in 2022 have been found guilty of mischief....
Voting machine company Smartmatic and OANN settle defamation suit (www.nbcnews.com)
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs (www.pcgamer.com)
The first set of conjoined twins to identify as different genders has died at 62 (www.lgbtqnation.com)
70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability (www.gamedeveloper.com)
US woman arrested, accused of targeting young boys in $1.7M sextortion scheme (arstechnica.com)
US plans to restore tariffs on dominant solar technology, sources say (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14586160...
PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta (wedistribute.org)
PubKit is a spinoff project from Pixelfed, and is used by the project’s lead developer to actually develop Pixelfed. It has some pretty great ideas about mocking up entities and data, testing data streams, and working with different server implementations to see where pieces might differ.
EU signals end of free money for poorer countries (www.politico.eu)
The European Commission is pushing for the post-pandemic recovery fund not to be repeated — as well as for conditions on financing of poorer regions....
