Tesla’s profits sink as the company struggles with cooling demand (www.theverge.com)
Iran: Rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death, says lawyer (www.dw.com)
Popular rapper Toomaj Salehi wrote songs in support of the protest movement in Iran following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in 2022. He has been in jail for over a year....
The Bony-Eared Assfish Has No Goals (en.wikipedia.org)
“The bony-eared assfish may have the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate”...
Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds - Reuters (news.yahoo.com)
OTTAWA (Reuters) - About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said....
Call of Duty and Diablo boost Microsoft's gaming revenues, but Xbox sales continue to fall (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Microsoft has released its latest financial results, showing significant growth in gaming revenues — thanks in no small part to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard....
The Louisiana Town Where a Traffic Stop Can Lead to One Charge After Another (www.propublica.org)
The city of Gretna, Louisiana, in the shadow of New Orleans, brings in more money through fines and related fees than some larger cities in the state. An investigation by WVUE-TV and ProPublica shows that much of that money comes from drivers who rack up multiple violations and hefty fines....
Russian court places Forbes journalist under house arrest (www.independent.co.uk)
Journalist had shared a social media post in 2022 about Russia’s suspected war crimes in the Ukrainian city of Bucha...
Apple pulls AI image apps from the App Store after learning they could generate nude images (ptv-news.com.pk)
Israel Tied With Iran Among Top Jailers of Journalists in 2023, Report Finds (truthout.org)
The US secretly sent long-range missiles to Ukraine — and Kyiv used them (www.politico.com)
HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation (www.hashicorp.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.nu/post/4395688...
Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti GPUs are in short supply and not because of demand (www.pcgamesn.com)
Mandating Employees’ Participation in Corporate Governance under the Revised Chinese Company Law (www.taylorwessing.com)
Gaza’s 37m tonnes of bomb-filled debris could take 14 years to clear, says expert (www.theguardian.com)
Israel’s war in Gaza has created 37m tonnes of debris, much of it laced with unexploded bombs, which could take more than a decade to remove, a top UN demining official said....
TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok’s political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP’s Geostrategic Objectives networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…...
Earthquake of magnitude 6.5 strikes Japan's Bonin Islands, USGS says (www.reuters.com)
An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck Japan’s Bonin Islands, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Saturday....
Far-right AfD reels as German lawmakers slam party over espionage and corruption allegations (www.politico.eu)
Following allegations of dodgy links to Russia and China, one lawmaker referred to Alternative for Germany as a “party of treason.”...
Russia says Polish discussion on hosting US nuclear weapons is dangerous (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools (www.neowin.net)
TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2....
Gaza mass grave: Almost 400 bodies have been found, says Palestinian Civil Defense | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14905603...
Tennessee passes first-of-its-kind law attacking trans kids (www.lgbtqnation.com)
How a second Trump presidency could tear Europe apart (www.politico.eu)
The former president’s return would cement a shift in the U.S. as a fact that can no longer be ignored....
Where do they get those numbers from? (lemmy.world)
Student Protest Leader at Columbia: ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ (www.nytimes.com)
Video of incendiary comments by one of the leaders of the student protest encampment at Columbia University surfaced online Thursday evening, forcing the school to again confront an issue at the core of the conflict rippling across campuses nationwide: the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism....
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis...
