NASA's Curiosity Rover Uncovers Trove of Yellow Crystals on Mars (gizmodo.com)
40 people killed in migrant boat fire off Haiti’s coast (cbnumy.blogspot.com)
Newborn baby made homeless by Home Office in frenzy to clear asylum backlog | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop lid (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17528189
Nobara 40 released (nobaraproject.org)
China: Bridge collapses in sudden floods, killing several (www.dw.com)
At least 11 people died, and 30 people were missing after a bridge collapsed amid torrential rains in northwestern China, state media said on Saturday....
Member of eBay security team sentenced in harassment scheme involving bloody Halloween pig mask (apnews.com)
The former senior manager of special operations for eBay Inc.’s. global security team was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston for his role in a cyberstalking campaign that included sending a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask and a book on surviving the loss of a spouse to a Massachusetts couple’s...
Man accused of Nazi salute during US Capitol attack jailed for nearly five years (www.theguardian.com)
Tyler Dykes, 26, who said at sentencing he is supporting Trump to be president, pleaded guilty to assault charges...
YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age. (docs.google.com)
Over half of women who have had abortions have had a previous child....
China: Researcher explains how Uighurs are exploited in Xinjiang's forced labor regime where Western companies benefit from an opaque system (eurasianet.org)
Archived version...
Cellebrite's tools can't crack iPhones running iOS 17.4 or newer; most Android devices vulnerable (www.techspot.com)
I want to share this post because I was disappointed to see this popular smartphone cracking tool works very well across Android versions and devices while iPhone enjoys relative security....
Macron wins shock vote to keep coalition hopes alive (www.politico.eu)
Emmanuel Macron’s party formed a last–minute agreement with right-leaning lawmakers to win a key vote in parliament on Thursday that opens the door to the French president playing a greater-than-expected role in forming the country’s next government....
Bethesda Game Studios has unionized! (x.com)
no official CWA press release yet, but here’s the union’s:...
To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says (www.404media.co)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/19765669
Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry. (restofworld.org)
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant. (www.wired.com)
If I’ve learned anything from watching combat footage from Ukraine, it’s that shotguns are very effective at taking down drones. Who would’ve guessed the thing used to kill birds kills drones? (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
new sharkey instance now open: cyberpunk.gay (cyberpunk.gay)
cyberpunk.gay is now open for registrations!!!...
Former telephone giant Nokia sees double-digit fall in sales amid challenging 5G environment (fortune.com)
AMD Anti-Lag steps out of its comfort zone — tech arrives on Vulkan 1.3.291, bringing Anti-Lag benefits outside of DirectX for the first time (www.tomshardware.com)
No pets (slrpnk.net)
DOJ attorney who led prosecution of anti-Trump protesters hit with ethics charges for allegedly hiding exculpatory evidence from defendants (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/doj-attorney-led-prosecution-an…
Years of miscalculations by U.S., NATO led to dire shell shortage in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Fossil fuel extraction compatible with climate action, says COP29 host Azerbaijan (www.politico.eu)
Azerbaijan, the host of this year’s global climate talks, has suggested that continued fossil fuel extraction is compatible with the Paris Agreement....