Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers (www.techspot.com)
I am going sailing…...
Corpos being corpos (sh.itjust.works)
Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports (www.cnbc.com)
Xi Jinping visits Kazakhstan and Tajikistan for SCO summit (www.helsinkitimes.fi)
I’m curious how the Russian Federation feels regarding the People’s Republic of China attempting to curry favor in Central Asia
Google Contacts is getting a new 'Use without an account' option (www.androidpolice.com)
Swing state's [PA] Capitol building reportedly evacuated over bomb threat mentioning Biden (www.rawstory.com)
OpenAI was hacked, revealing internal secrets and raising national security concerns — year-old breach wasn't reported to the public (www.tomshardware.com)
A hacker breached OpenAI’s internal messaging systems early last year, stealing details of how OpenAI’s technologies work from employees. Although the hacker did not access the systems housing key AI technologies, the incident raised significant security concerns within the company. Furthermore, it even raised concerns about...
Karine Jean-Pierre Throws Down With Fox Reporter Not Buying Biden’s Debate Excuses: ‘Have You Had a Cold Before?’ (www.mediaite.com)
Human Rights NGOs urge Austria to investigate sexual crimes by Russia military in Ukraine (www.jurist.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/545608...
Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers (www.newscientist.com)
In case of paywall: archive.is/kZAgI
Italy Seeks to Build Base for Long-Term Partnership With China (www.bloomberg.com)
archive.is/95udL
Qt Performance and Tools Update, Part 1 (www.qt.io)
Performance optimisation matters when you are trying to get your application working in a resource-constrained environment. This is typically the case in embedded but also in some desktop scenarious you may run short on resources so it’s not a matter without significance on desktop either....
Minnesota GOP Candidate Accused of Throwing Tarantula at Alleged ‘Squatter’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
Trump seeks to distance himself from pro-Trump Project 2025 | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” the name given to a playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals....
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks (www.theverge.com)
The inevitable DPRK culture shock when they first encounter a bombed out Ukrainian village (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Calling White House Press Secretary ‘DEI Hire’ (atlantadailyworld.com)
cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/3116914...
Elon Musk's X / Twitter is getting rid of repost, like, and reply buttons and counts (mashable.com)
Rafah is a dusty, rubble-strewn ghost town 2 months after Israel invaded to root out Hamas (apnews.com)
Two months ago, before Israeli troops invaded Rafah, the city sheltered most of Gaza’s more than 2 million people. Today it is a dust-covered ghost town....
Inside a violent gang’s ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree (arstechnica.com)
More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims.
Appeals Court Restores $26M Judgment Against ‘Unite The Right’ Rally White Supremacists (newsone.com)
Poop in the Seine, Packed Trains, Convoluted QR Codes -- Is Paris Ready for the Olympics? (www.rollingstone.com)
France's 'Excalibur' sword vanishes from the stone after 1,300 years (local12.com)
According to The New York Post, citing a report by The Telegraph, n sword that is regarded as France’s “Excalibur” has vanished from its stone. Per the publication, locals in the French town of Rocamadour believed the sword, Durandal, had been lodged in rock for around 1,300 years. A main attraction for the town, the sword...
Israeli attack on UN school used as shelter in Gaza kills at least 16 (www.aljazeera.com)
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip, the Gaza Government Media Office said, as Israel continues to pound the besieged coastal territory....
