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After nine months of war in Gaza, another UN school suffers Israeli airstrike (news.un.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/618780...

Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body (www.theguardian.com)

West Texas Pastor Who Used Illegal Donations From Churches to Campaign for Office Is Fined $3,500 (www.propublica.org)

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)

Taliban: Female athletes do not represent Afghanistan at the Paris Olympics this month. (feminist.org)

‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza (www.972mag.com)

The six sources — all except one of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — recounted how Israeli soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians simply because they entered an area that the military defined as a “no-go zone.” The testimonies paint a picture of a landscape littered with civilian corpses, which are...

High-ranking corrupt officials in China earn eight to fourteen times their regular salary by profiting from corruption, study based on official data says (www.zew.de)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/610385...

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says (www.propublica.org)

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Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere (www.scientificamerican.com)

The land, water and air around us are chock-full of DNA fragments from fungi that mycologists can’t link to known organisms. These slippery beings are so widespread scientists are calling them “dark fungi.” It’s a comparison to the equally elusive dark matter and dark energy that permeates the universe.

Konami is intent on region locking Japanese players out of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (automaton-media.com)

Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK (www.phoronix.com)

cross-posted from https://reddthat.com/post/21846504

Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report (petapixel.com)

Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think...

Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn (arstechnica.com)

Denise Finger, wife of the deceased, wrote to the Linux Wireless list on Friday evening:...

Steam announces game recording beta (store.steampowered.com)

Indian Prime Minister Modi makes first visit to Russia since the start of its war on Ukraine (apnews.com)

French conservatives move toward far-right alliance (www.dw.com)

The leader of France’s Republicans party has said he would be open to an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in snap French elections. Such an alliance would break a decades-old taboo....

7 Essential Linux Terms Explained: Distro, DE, Repos, and More (www.howtogeek.com)

The Linux Kernel...

Let's discuss: Super Mario (beehaw.org)

The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...

What is your favourite game with native Linux port? (factorio.com)

For me, it’s Factorio....

Site: "I don't feel so good...." (sh.itjust.works)

The battle over J&J’s bankruptcy plan to end talc lawsuits (www.reuters.com)

After being rebuffed twice by federal courts, the $350 billion healthcare giant is attempting again to end the litigation in a so-called “Texas two-step” bankruptcy. The maneuver involves offloading its talc liability onto a newly created subsidiary, which then declares Chapter 11. The goal is to use the proceeding to force...

Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror (www.theguardian.com)

It was 10 days into the journey when the boat sprang a leak. Dozens of men, women and children were crowded on to a fishing boat, all Tamils fleeing persecution in their home country, Sri Lanka. They had hoped to reach sanctuary in Canada....

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket (arstechnica.com)

The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand “due to a structural failure.”...