Free and open-source YouTube clients w/ no ads (lemmy.zip)
LibreTube - uses Piped as video source by default. Subscriptions and playlists can be created, all without actually interacting with YouTube....
Russia's biggest energy company says it'll take it at least 10 years to recover gas sales lost because of the Ukraine war (finance.yahoo.com)
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom won’t recover gas sales lost to the Ukraine war for at least a decade....
Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms -mostly in Ukraine, France and Germany- with fake content and seek to divert their efforts (checkfirst.network)
Archived link...
A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor (www.independent.co.uk)
BeauTyXT: a FOSS Text, Markdown, and Typst editor (beautyxt.app)
Unboxing (lemmy.world)
US and allies warn China is intensifying its efforts to recruit Western military pilots (www.cnn.com)
The warning from the U.S. and its four closest intellignce partners follows several arrests of U.S. service members for allegedly trying to pass info to China....
Report Exposes Christian Nationalist “Threats” to Democracy in the US (truthout.org)
PlayStation's CEO drastically underestimates the Steam crowd's patience, thinks PC gamers will buy a PS5 for exclusive sequels (www.gamesradar.com)
Gangsters in El Salvador are terrified of strongman Nayib Bukele (www.economist.com)
The NYPD is reportedly seeking to revoke Trump's concealed carry permit (www.motherjones.com)
Argentina year-end inflation estimate drops to 146% in cenbank poll (www.reuters.com)
How to fix Korea's birthrate? Put girls in school earlier, controversial report argues (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
“Notably, Chang’s report claims that biological females develop earlier than males do, so requiring girls to enter school at younger ages will create classes in which the two sexes are of more equal maturity as they age. This, the author posits, makes it more likely that those classmates will be attracted to each other, and...
Major cause of inflammatory bowel disease found (www.bbc.com)
Kyle Rittenhouse mocked for trying to make ‘gay’ a slur on the first day of Pride Month (www.advocate.com)
France will send Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine, Macron says (www.politico.eu)
President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France would send Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine, in what would appear to be a significant increase in his country’s direct military support to Kyiv....
Biden and Macron use D-day event to emphasise support for Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Leaders rally behind Zelenskiy to make clear to Putin that, as in 1944, freedom in Europe is worth fighting for...
Children Among Dozens Killed in Attack on Sudanese Village (www.nytimes.com)
A gun and artillery assault by Sudanese paramilitaries on a village in Sudan’s main farming region killed at least 104 people, including dozens of children, Sudanese pro-democracy activists said.The exact circumstances of the attack on Wednesday at Wad al-Noura, a village 70 miles south of the capital, Khartoum, were disputed....
Intel's newest E-core-only "Twin Lake" CPUs are on the way, starting with Intel N250 (www.tomshardware.com)
Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need ["Academics want to research games from wherever they are, but the ESA is fighting back."] (www.ign.com)
Former neighbors accuse Alitos of using 'power imbalance' to 'harass and intimidate' them (www.rawstory.com)
IFTAS Launches Moderator Resource Portal (wedistribute.org)
IFTAS, the Trust and Safety organization for the #Fediverse, launched a new community portal full of guides, resources, discussion groups, and tools for community moderators and instance admins. We take a look at what it does.
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI (www.wired.com)
Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think (www.nature.com)
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South Africa’s President Announces Plan to Form National Unity Government (www.nytimes.com)
Led by the A.N.C. since the fall of apartheid, South Africa has been in limbo since the watershed election on May 29 when voters punished the ruling party for failing to address issues like skyrocketing unemployment, regular power outages and high rates of crime....
