NBA legend Jerry West, whose silhouette is on the league’s logo, dies aged 86 (www.independent.co.uk)
Happy Birthday James Clerk Maxwell! (en.wikipedia.org)
PeerTube 6.1 is out! (joinpeertube.org)
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (abcnews.go.com)
China’s maritime militia: the shadowy armada whose existence Beijing rarely acknowledges (www.theguardian.com)
They look like simple fishing boats but are capable of swarming in huge numbers to help Beijing stake its territorial claims in the South China Sea...
Hamas demands Gaza pullout within a week of truce, also releasing hostage bodies initially (www.haaretz.com)
Sources in Hamas told Haaretz that this was ‘intended to ensure that Israel will not be able to evade all stages of the deal and return to fighting once all the hostages are released.’ Israel said Hamas’ response was tantamount to a rejection of the proposal itself...
Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy (arstechnica.com)
We haven’t pinned down the masses of any individual neutrino, and we don’t even know which ones are heavier than the others. When it comes to our ability to collect raw data, neutrinos present a triple threat: they’re incredibly lightweight (even the electron weighs over 5 million times more than all the neutrinos...
Martin Shkreli Accused of Copying and Sharing One-Of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album in New Lawsuit (www.rollingstone.com)
Chiquita found liable by U.S. jury for killings by Colombian terrorists (www.msn.com)
Chiquita Brands was ordered Monday by a Florida jury to pay $38.3 million to the families of eight people killed by a right-wing paramilitary group in Colombia, which the banana grower had funded for years during that country’s violent civil war....
AsahiLina: ✨ We got a bunch of Steam games to run on Asahi Linux!!! ✨ (vt.social)
Update : more games!
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.4 Released To Optimize Hybrid CPUs On Linux (www.phoronix.com)
Every Dollar Counts. To Pay for the War, Ukraine Embraces Privatization (www.nytimes.com)
Ukraine is being sold for parts
US denies Yemen rebels claim of strike on USS Eisenhower (www.theaustralian.com.au)
June Feature Drop: New features and upgrades for the Pixel portfolio (blog.google)
The June Feature Drop brings updates to make your phone more helpful and adds safety features to Pixel Watch.
Cases of deadly disease caused by ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria hit record high in Japan (www.straitstimes.com)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warned (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, ending a months-long legal battle between co-founders of the artificial intelligence startup....
A real nut case: Cold Stone Creamery faces suit over lack of real pistachios in pistachio ice cream (apnews.com)
Is it nuts to assume a scoop of pistachio ice cream should contain actual pistachios? Or how about real butter in a dish of butter pecan?...
The OpenBSD folks are working on their own version control system, Game of Trees (gameoftrees.org)
I didn’t know about this and thought it interesting. Figured some others might as well.
House GOP gets a political win for Trump — which might be its last of the year (www.politico.com)
Middle East Crisis: Blinken Calls Some Hamas Changes to Cease-Fire Proposal ‘Unacceptable’ (www.nytimes.com)
Speaking at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, alongside Qatar’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Mr. Blinken said that “a deal was on the table that was virtually identical” to one that Hamas put forward on May 6....
Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship (theintercept.com)
Biden administration moves to ban medical debt from credit reports (www.nbcnews.com)
The Biden administration is moving to ban medical debt from credit reports....
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warns against apathy and inaction, amid spike forced displacement. (www.unhcr.org)
The rise in overall forced displacement – to 120 million by May 2024 – was the 12th consecutive annual increase and reflects both new and mutating conflicts and a failure to resolve long-standing crises. The figure would make the global displaced population equivalent to the 12th largest country in the world, around the size...
Jumblie #253 (jumblie.com)
Jumblie #253 🟠🔵🔴🟢 9 guesses in 7m 4s jumblie.com...
