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Alleged Vivo Pad 3 Pro spotted with most powerful MediaTek chip on Geekbench (www.gizmochina.com)

Campaigners in the UK Are Planning a Tax-Strike for Gaza (novaramedia.com)

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Motorola teases a new Edge series smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (m.gsmarena.com)

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IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible (research.ibm.com)

Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)

A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.

Korea needs almost 900,000 more workers by 2032 to tackle slowing economy: vice minister (koreatimes.co.kr)

Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding (www.theguardian.com)

After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and Afghanistan...

Telegram Is a 'Scammer's Paradise' Thanks to Cheap Phishing Tools (www.pcmag.com)

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more (apnews.com)

Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....

India eliminates extreme poverty (www.brookings.edu)

Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)

Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says (www.reuters.com)

Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1 (arstechnica.com)

A new signal from humanity’s most distant spacecraft could be the key to restoring it....

Retiring the Mozilla Location Service (web.archive.org)

Patent infringement threat(Skyhook Holdings, Inc), lack of further investment seems to have been the reason of killing the service around 2021. It seems google location service seems to be the only player in town(other than OpenCellID, which I do not have experience with).

StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware evolves to evade detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Ex Battlefield director doesn’t have “anything positive” to say for EA (www.pcgamesn.com)

Pet DNA testing company in doghouse after identifying human as canine (www.theguardian.com)

DNA My Dog received human genetic sample and identified it as a malamute, shar-pei and labrador, according to news station

Japan PM Kishida slams ruling party event with scantily-clad dancers (www.bbc.com)

Leaked footage of the event, organised by a chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party, showed women in swimwear sitting on participants’ laps, reports said. The event was “highly inappropriate and most regrettable”, said Mr Kishida when grilled by lawmakers on Friday. At least one of the event organisers has since resigned...