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Blinken Has Not Sanctioned Israeli Units Linked to Killings, Rapes Despite Staff Recommendations (www.propublica.org)

Netanyahu Condemns Reported US Plan to Blacklist Military Unit (www.bloomberg.com)

Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry (www.hamiltonnolan.com)

Residents push for renaming of Trump Plaza to disassociate from ex-president (www.theguardian.com)

While Donald Trump endures the ignominy of being the first former US president to face criminal trial, there is further humiliation brewing, with a movement to strip the Trump name from a building in his home state....

What is screen time doing to children? Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media. (www.economist.com)

United Airlines says Boeing Alaska blowout cost it $200m (www.bbc.com)

United Airlines has blamed Boeing for a $200m (£161m) hit to its earnings in the first three months of this year....

Man who won primary election while charged with murder convicted on lesser charge (apnews.com)

A Boone County jury convicted Andrew Wilhoite, 41, of Lebanon on Thursday, local news outlets reported....

Gov. Reeves proclaims Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi (www.mississippifreepress.org)

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 31-year-old tradition that began in 1993. Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, announced the proclamation in a Facebook post on Friday, April 12....

Ukraine was in trouble already — now it openly admits it's on track to lose (www.businessinsider.com)

DeSantis signs bill banning local heat protections for workers (thehill.com)

Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation (www.theguardian.com)

The Conservative MP under fire for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery is in line for a multimillion-pound payout from the Barbados government....

Ford recalls over 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick cars due to loss of drive power risk (apnews.com)

From Z80 To EZ80: Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 To The TI-84+ CE (hackaday.com)

Trump gripes he can't reject 'unlimited' jurors in New York hush money trial (www.cnbc.com)

Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis (apnews.com)

A single mother of two, Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick’s home to white dust, the cheapest rental she could find for her family and dogs cost $10,000 a month....

TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression (bellard.org)

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An IRC client in your motherboard, written in Rust (axleos.com)

Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University (theintercept.com)

Hafez would seem like an unlikely target for a smear campaign. A well-respected academic researcher in Austria, his work focused on documenting and combating anti-Muslim racism in Europe. He was a co-author of the European Islamophobia Report, a scholarly annual analysis of anti-Muslim discrimination on the continent, and was...

Netanyahu's outraged response after report of pending US sanctions on IDF (www.newsweek.com)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement condemning sanctions on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after a report surfaced claiming that the Biden administration is set to blacklist a unit for alleged human rights violations in Gaza....