Active - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise (openwall.com)

The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored.

400 people with mental illness are sitting in Colorado jails. Some state lawmakers want to divert them to treatment instead. (coloradosun.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/400-people-with-mental-illness-…

Sudan slips into famine as warring sides starve civilians (www.aljazeera.com)

One year after the start of the war in Sudan, children are dying of hunger and sick people are not buying medicine so that they can afford food as the population slips towards famine....

Star Citizen 1.0 'Twinkles on the Horizon', Dev Says — 12 Years and $669 Million Later - IGN (www.ign.com)

Researchers analysed songs lyrics across several genres from 1980 to 2020, found that song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed (www.theguardian.com)

An Arizona lawmaker announced she was getting an abortion. Here's what happened next (www.npr.org)

For the first 25 minutes, the Arizona Senate’s floor session on March 18th was unremarkable....

Opinion: Why I’m resigning from the State Department (www.cnn.com)

China's president says it doesn't need ASML — tells Dutch PM it will continue with advanced technological progress regardless (www.tomshardware.com)

Settler leader calls for military action in West Bank 'with the same force as we're using in Gaza' (www.timesofisrael.com)

“The Palestinian Authority is waging a war against us, and only action with the same force as we’re applying in Gaza will eliminate all threats throughout the West Bank,” he says in a statement cited by Hebrew media.

Protestors force Israeli arms company Elbit to sell arms factory in Tamworth (socialistworker.co.uk)

the site’s new owners, listed as Griffin Newco Ltd, told Palestine Action that they will have nothing to do with the previous owners, Elbit, and have discontinued any arms manufacturing. ⠀...

SoylentNews: A Hotbed of Crime? – The Legal Beaver (legalbeaver.ca)

Disney+ debuts a new logo and integrates Hulu content, offering joint subs in the US (alternativeto.net)

Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)

Cocoa prices hit $10,000 per metric ton for the first time ever (www.cnbc.com)

Difficult weather conditions and disease have affected production in West Africa, which produces about 70% of the world’s cocoa. The two largest producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, have been hit by a combination of heavy rain, dry heat and disease recently....

Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence (www.bbc.co.uk)

“All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!” He pleads: “We are asking the US to give us a chance to live, just give us a chance.”...

A record surge in dengue cases in Latin America spurs a warning for proactive measures (www.nbcnews.com)

As of March, more than 3.5 million cases of the mosquito-transmitted dengue and more than 1,000 deaths have been reported in the region, according to the Pan American Health Organization....

Dozens of stalled Israeli visas seen hindering Gaza aid efforts (www.reuters.com)

Difficulties getting Israeli permission for foreign staff to work in Israel and the Palestinian territories are hampering efforts to get aid into war-shattered Gaza where civilians are facing imminent famine, according to U.N. data and aid workers....

Former gaming executive sentenced to death in poisoning of billionaire Netflix producer in China (www.cbsnews.com)

Android 15 may let you control when your location is shared with carriers (www.androidauthority.com)

The National Court orders to block Telegram in Spain (www.gearrice.com)

Thailand steps up border control of livestock after anthrax outbreak is reported in neighboring Laos (apnews.com)

Thailand’s government has ordered officials to closely monitor livestock along the border with Laos after more than 50 people were reported to have contracted anthrax in the neighboring country....

Trying to understand the different selfhosted monitoring solutions (kbin.social)

Note: It seems my original post from last week didn't get posted on lemmy.world from kbin (I can't seem to find it) so I'm reposting it. Apologies to those who may have already seen this....

Beating the 50cc Flower Cup on Mario Kart 64 (1996) (lemmus.org)

Edit: Just beat the Star Cup as well.

Indian politics roiled as huge donations are linked to investigated firms (www.washingtonpost.com)

Mahendra Kumar Jalan was an Indian millionaire with a diversified portfolio of food processing plants, dairy farms and commercial real estate. As he faced scrutiny from the Indian government’s financial crimes investigators in 2019, he began to put money in something else....