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Ukraine’s top commander says eastern frontline has ‘significantly worsened’. Outgunned forces struggle to halt multipronged and intensifying Russian offensive. (www.ft.com)

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How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza (www.thenation.com)

Palantir’s AI machines need data for fuel—data in the form of intelligence reports on Palestinians in the occupied territories. And for decades a key and highly secret source of that data for Israel has been the US National Security Agency, according to documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. After fleeing to...

Threat of Iranian attack on Israel is 'real and credible', says White House (www.bbc.com)

Tensions are high over the possibility Iran will retaliate for an air strike that killed senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks ago....

Lemmyverse historical data? (data.lemmyverse.net)

I am interested in checking out the historical growth of a particular community. Lemmy Explorer crawls for data about the Lemmyverse every 24 hours or something, and that data is made available on their website. But I can only find where to download the latest data. Is there somewhere that I can find historical data? Does Lemmy...

House Votes to Extend—and Expand—Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a Major US Spy Program (www.wired.com)

After months of delays, false starts, and interventions by lawmakers working to preserve and expand the US intelligence community’s spy powers, the House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years....

Ukraine could face defeat in 2024. Here's how that might look (www.bbc.com)

Sketchy Botox shots spark multistate outbreak of botulism-like condition (arstechnica.com)

So far at least six people in two states have fallen ill; four of them were hospitalized....

European diplomats in DC scramble to gain access to Trump allies for insights (edition.cnn.com)

Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online (www.ign.com)

Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening? (www.nytimes.com)

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US sanctions on key Nvidia distributor in China could push more customers towards domestic replacements (www.scmp.com)

Sitonholy, which has been added to the US Entity List, is one of a few ‘elite-level’ Nvidia data centre product solutions providers in China...

Ties with US and Japan will ‘change dynamic’ in South China Sea, Philippines president says after critics of China’s ‘dangerous and aggressive behaviour’ in the region (www.theguardian.com)

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Sync for lemmy patch is ready (github.com)

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Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com” (arstechnica.com)

Automatic text replacement let users spoof URLs ending in x, like netflix.com....

Heat wave causes havoc in Mali, kills 100 people (africanperceptions.org)

Russia says it conducts successful intercontinental ballistic missile test launch (www.reuters.com)

Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)

Paralyzed man who can walk again shows potential benefit of stem cell therapy (abcnews.go.com)

Factorio Friday Facts #406 - Space Age Music (factorio.com)

Not sure how well bombastic brass will do over longer periods of play, but I’m sure Wube have thought of that - going to be really interesting to see/hear this in action.

Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military (theintercept.com)

Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...

Senate Republicans furious over Trump trying to derail FISA bill (thehill.com)

Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a compromise House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority, sending lawmakers scrambling to find a Plan B to keep the nation’s intelligence agencies from losing their ability to spy on adversaries and...

Iranian attack on Israel expected ‘sooner rather than later’, says Joe Biden (www.theguardian.com)

Joe Biden has said he expects an Iranian attack on Israel “sooner rather than later” and issued a last-ditch message to Tehran: “Don’t.”...

Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started (www.theguardian.com)

However, truck owners involved in the food deliveries, mostly Egyptian hauliers, are reluctant to let their vehicles be used inside Gaza for fear of them bombed or ransacked by starving Gazans. There is also a shortage of willing drivers after repeated incidents of aid trucks coming under fire, of which the WCK bombing has been...