Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (www.theverge.com)
Hungary and Serbia’s autocratic leaders to roll out red carpet for China’s Xi during Europe tour (apnews.com)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend the bulk of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries at the continent’s eastern half, a region that Beijing has used as a foothold for its expanding economic ambitions in Europe....
Audacity 3.5 Released with Cloud Saving, Beat Detection, Pitch Shifting, and More (9to5linux.com)
Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya (www.economist.com)
Yet they and their descendants would go on to transform Europe and much of Asia genetically, culturally and linguistically. Among the many innovations that these steppe migrants ushered in, scientists believe, are the Indo-European languages that are dominant in Europe today, and which are spoken by nearly half of humanity....
Rant: Star Trek writers really need to be more careful about what living scientists they choose to reference. (www.thestand.org)
If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize in advance and it’s okay if it gets removed....
Dual headphone jack smartphone scores high in new reparability video (www.notebookcheck.net)
Russian forces executed surrendering Ukrainian soldiers: HRW report (www.euronews.com)
In its analysis of footage from five incidents since December 2023, HRW said Ukrainian soldiers were “gunned down in cold blood”, constituting a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions....
Latvia Starts Digging Ditches On Its Belarus Border Amid Concerns Of Attack (charter97.org)
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Popular Android Apps Like Xiaomi, WPS Office Vulnerable to File Overwrite Flaw (thehackernews.com)
Nintendo Goes After 8,535 Switch Emulator Backups In Mass Takedown (kotaku.com)
BBC - Why is Reddit full of pictures of John Oliver? (www.bbc.com)
This court case could set groundbreaking precedent for Indigenous land rights in Europe (www.cbc.ca)
Norway’s Supreme Court is deliberating on a case that could grant local control over a vast area in the country’s far north — and set a groundbreaking precedent for Indigenous land rights in Europe....
TIL the American Conservapedia, among other atrocities, redirects Linux to GNU/Linux (www.conservapedia.com)
I guess they have a quantum taste for GNU!
Law Firm Defending Trump Seeks to Withdraw From a Long-Running Case (www.nytimes.com)
Google's plan is to annoy you relentlessly until you update Messages (www.androidauthority.com)
There’s a new Google Messages update page that takes up your phone’s entire display every time you open the app....
USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 (medium.com)
Trump compares Biden admin the ‘Gestapo’ and attacks prosecutor in dark donor speech (www.independent.co.uk)
Xi Jinping begins first European tour in five years in France [6 May 2024 | Al Jazeera] (www.aljazeera.com)
Men believed to be missing surfers died from gunshots, Mexican officials say (www.theguardian.com)
Families of men presumed to be two Australians and American who went missing in Baja California arrive in Tijuana to identify bodies...
NYC says half of those arrested at 2 pro-Palestinian campus protests were not students (www.npr.org)
The world's glitziest song contest starts this week. Here's what you need to know about Eurovision. (www.nbcnews.com)
Sovcit cult leads to murder… (kansasreflector.com)
Paul Grice, a member of an anti-government group called "God's Misfits," was the fifth member of the group to be charged in a murder case.
Periods are a nightmare in Gaza's crowded, unsanitary camps. Women are using birth control to skip them (www.cbc.ca)
Crouched inside her makeshift tent at a camp in Rafah, Samah El-Nazli fidgets as she recalls what her living conditions have been like since the war began. The mother of four is among millions of Gazans struggling to access food, water and sanitation in the overcrowded camp after losing their own homes in the strip....
Muslim leaders are 'out of words' as they tire of the White House outreach on the war in Gaza (apnews.com)
“All they are trying to do is convince us that there is some kind of movement toward where we want,” Siblani said. “But it’s too slow and it’s dragging. It’s more death and casualties that are happening.”...
'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary says pro-Palestinian student protesters are 'screwed' because employers can identify them through AI (www.businessinsider.com)
