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WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multiservice messaging app Beeper for $125M | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop (www.businessinsider.com)

Israeli troops shoot and kill a Palestinian shepherd reading the Quran on his land (www.haaretz.com)

Three soldiers pounce on a shepherd sitting outside his sheep pen. They knock him over and then one of them shoots him to death at point-blank range. Fakher Jaber, a father of four, was suspected of involvement in an incident that probably never happened...

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists (www.theguardian.com)

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How the xz backdoor highlights a major flaw in Nix (shadeyg56.vercel.app)

The main issue is the handling of security updates within the Nixpkgs ecosystem, which relies on Nix’s CI system, Hydra, to test and build packages. Due to the extensive number of packages in the Nixpkgs repository, the process can be slow, causing delays in the release of updates. As an example, the updated xz 5.4.6 package...

A Ubisoft Game Is At The Center Of A Fight To Stop Online Game Shutdowns (kotaku.com)

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' son accused of sex assault in lawsuit that also names music mogul as defendant (www.nbcnews.com)

A woman alleges she was attacked while working on a yacht in late 2022....

Chicago Officials Confirm Tuberculosis Cases At Migrant Shelters (borderlessmag.org)

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Medical care and supplies are scarce as gang violence chokes Haiti's capital (apnews.com)

Fresh gunfire erupted Tuesday in downtown Port-au-Prince, forcing aid workers to halt urgently needed care for thousands of Haitians....

Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association (bookriot.com)

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A Moroccan activist was sentenced to 5 years for criticizing the country’s ties to Israel (apnews.com)

An activist who criticized Morocco’s decision to normalize relations with Israel was sentenced to five years in prison, as some of the Arab world’s largest pro-Palestinian protests continue to sweep the country....

Sen. Bernie Sanders's office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear (apnews.com)

Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating (www.usatoday.com)

"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)

On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

Ukraine war: Six Russian planes destroyed by drones, says Kyiv (www.bbc.com)

Ukraine has carried out a drone attack against targets in southern Russia, and claims to have destroyed six Russian planes at an airbase in Rostov region....

US wildfires are getting bigger and more complex, prompting changes in firefighting workforce (apnews.com)

Just in the first three months of the year, more than 2,669 square miles (6,912 square kilometers) were charred in the United States. That’s more than half of last year’s total, and forecasters are predicting elevated risk of fires over the coming months in the Great Lakes region, parts of the Midwest, Southwest and in...