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Google layoffs: A timeline of the company's job cuts and restructuring into 2024 (www.businessinsider.com)

Google layoffs in 2023 affected about 6% of the company's global workforce, or about 12,000 people, starting in January....

When you have to use multiple browsers because one place doesn't work (kbin.social)

I use ProtonMail as my primary e-mail client. For some reason, I cannot get to ProtonMail to verify an e-mail that I used to register elsewhere. I keep getting the hourglass on Firefox. So I go a try Chrome and it's the same deal....

Putin Visiting Xi Underscores Limits of Pressure to Divide Russia and China (time.com)

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‘I’ve been here for 40 years’: Newsagent’s fight for UK passport (www.thetimes.co.uk)

Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza (apnews.com)

Research and espionage: an institute staffed by Russian intelligence officers is recruiting students and scientists abroad (theins.ru)

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Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show (www.washingtonpost.com)

A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group....

South Africa calls on ICJ to order Israel to end Rafah offensive (www.theguardian.com)

South Africa has asked the international court of justice (ICJ) to urgently order Israel to end its assault on Rafah, halt its military campaign across Gaza, and allow international investigators and journalists into the territory....

Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester (apnews.com)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice....

Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on (apnews.com)

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack wounded three soldiers, one of them seriously, according to the Israeli military....

Registration Open: Fedora 40 Release Party on May 24-25 - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)

Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel (www.bbc.com)

Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Reserves 10 times the North Sea’s output raise fears over drilling in protected region...

‘Catastrophic moment’: Russia advances on key city in Ukraine | CNN (www.cnn.com)

Trump's $60 Bible & Constitution omits amendments ending slavery and allowing women to vote (meidasnews.com)

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I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty (www.wired.com)

NYC's 'Portal' to Dublin to temporarily close after incidents of joy, mischief, occasional nudity (www.fox5ny.com)

Fewer people in the US plan to buy EVs this year, study shows (www.reuters.com)

The number of buyers in the U.S. considering an electric vehicle purchase in 2024 has fallen from a year ago due to a shortage of affordable cars, inadequate charging infrastructure and ignorance about EV benefits, a study by J.D. Power, opens new tab has shown....

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (www.reuters.com)

May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....