7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes on coast of Taiwan (www.nbcnews.com)
Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged (www.bbc.co.uk)
Warning: This article contains disturbing content...
From Gao Yaojie to Mao Yushi: The high cost of being a whistleblower in China (www.aljazeera.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12912116...
Addressing Neglected Diseases: Can Non-Profits Bridge Pharma’s Investment Gap? (scheerpost.com)
Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)
Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...
Aid to Gaza Suspended After Israel Murders World Central Kitchen Workers (electronicintifada.net)
Now China donates 1,500 tonnes of Tibet glacial water to Maldives amidst water crisis (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
“Votes will not be counted”: Indian election disinformation ads and YouTube | Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org)
Global condemnation pours in over terrorist Israeli attack on Iranian consulate (www.presstv.ir)
'Hamas mouthpiece': Netanyahu lauds new law allowing him to shut Al-Jazeera in Israel (www.haaretz.com)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the law’s passing, saying that “Al Jazeera has harmed Israel’s security, actively participated in the October 7 massacre, and incited against IDF soldiers. It’s time to remove Hamas’ mouthpiece from our country.”...
Playing Asteroids (2600) on Atari VCS (lemmus.org)
Final score: 8310
An Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband's campaign (apnews.com)
The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was sentenced Monday to four months in jail after being convicted in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for a congressional seat....
Catholic bishops meet with Mexico’s cartel bosses to plead for peace (www.washingtonpost.com)
Citing a “profound crisis of violence and social disintegration,” Mexico’s Catholic bishops are staking out an aggressive new role in national security, going so far as to sit down with feuding drug traffickers in one blood-soaked state to hammer out a truce....
Running Windows on bus screens at Schipol Airport (slrpnk.net)
I don’t know if it’s just me that find it highly interesting that they choose to run Windows for these kind of things? Anyone able to elaborate the reasons for this? Surely this just costs them so much extra having to buy licenses for each of these screens…?...
China has a big problem with super gonorrhea, study finds (arstechnica.com)
Drug-resistant gonorrhea is a growing problem—one that doesn’t heed borders....
Flowblade 2.14 Arrives with Slow motion, Title Editing, and More (debugpointnews.com)
Fighting cookie theft using device bound sessions (blog.chromium.org)
China's ageing population: A demographic crisis is unfolding for Xi (www.bbc.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12912912...
UK government under pressure from Tories to stop arming Israel (www.theguardian.com)
‘They are breaking the law’: inside Amazon’s bid to stall a union drive (www.theguardian.com)
Retailer doing ‘whatever it takes’ to halt organizing at warehouse in Moreno Valley, California, workers say, as Amazon faces unfair labor practice charges...
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows (kotaku.com)
This data will probably only lead to more live service games. :|
YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious (chipp.in)
I have made this automate script to bypass premium check of Prism Launcher (Need testing for MacOS) (github.com)
Ukraine considers banning Telegram if app is confirmed as threat to national security (english.elpais.com)
Any organization accused of spreading propaganda promoting the Russian invasion can be prosecuted in court. Websites registered in Russia are blocked in Ukraine, but not only that: as EL PAÍS has been able to verify, at least one Amnesty International report from 2022, which was harshly criticized by the Ukrainian authorities,...
Alex Murdaugh gets 40 years in federal prison for stealing from clients and his law firm (apnews.com)
For maybe the last time, Alex Murdaugh, in a prison jumpsuit instead of the suit he used to wear, shuffled into a courtroom Monday in South Carolina and was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison....
