Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more (apnews.com)
Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....
India eliminates extreme poverty (www.brookings.edu)
Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says (www.reuters.com)
Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13207517...
Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1 (arstechnica.com)
A new signal from humanity’s most distant spacecraft could be the key to restoring it....
Retiring the Mozilla Location Service (web.archive.org)
Patent infringement threat(Skyhook Holdings, Inc), lack of further investment seems to have been the reason of killing the service around 2021. It seems google location service seems to be the only player in town(other than OpenCellID, which I do not have experience with).
StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware evolves to evade detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Ex Battlefield director doesn’t have “anything positive” to say for EA (www.pcgamesn.com)
Pet DNA testing company in doghouse after identifying human as canine (www.theguardian.com)
DNA My Dog received human genetic sample and identified it as a malamute, shar-pei and labrador, according to news station
Japan PM Kishida slams ruling party event with scantily-clad dancers (www.bbc.com)
Leaked footage of the event, organised by a chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party, showed women in swimwear sitting on participants’ laps, reports said. The event was “highly inappropriate and most regrettable”, said Mr Kishida when grilled by lawmakers on Friday. At least one of the event organisers has since resigned...
Russians Set Fire to At Least 3 Polling Stations on First Day of Election (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Bitcoin briefly rises to record high over $70,000 (www.reuters.com)
Israel says it is trying to 'flood' Gaza with aid (www.yahoo.com)
Foundations of Amateur Radio: The skyhook dilemma ... (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
By Onno VK6FLAB...
What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)
How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
Fulton County DA Fani Willis case against Trump can continue if she or special prosecutor Wade remove themselves, judge rules (www.nbcnews.com)
Helldivers 2 has likely sold over 8m, it’s claimed, ‘well ahead of expectations' (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Damn Linux Users (lemmy.world)
Sometimes you really need that vodka shot when things go wrong in the database (sopuli.xyz)
covid origin theorists (www.science.org)
‘Lab-leak’ proponents at Rutgers accused of defaming and intimidating COVID-19 origin researchers
Mastodon tries to solve its problem with tracking down other users (www.yahoo.com)
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
