Explosive device thrown onto porch of Satanic Temple in Massachusetts. No injuries were reported (apnews.com)
Canadian embassy in Syria damaged in Israeli strike on Iranian embassy next door (www.cbc.ca)
Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server (reestr.rublacklist.net)
Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia....
For the Discerning Geologist (slrpnk.net)
South Korean opposition wins landslide victory in parliamentary vote (www.telegraph.co.uk)
"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...
Israeli MK says secret plans underway for Gaza resettlement (www.newarab.com)
Israeli Knesset member Limor Son Har-Melech has said that there are “secret” Israeli plans to settle in Gaza, saying that rapid work is underway in government offices to achieve this...
Nuclear deal in tatters, Iran edges close to weapons capability (www.washingtonpost.com)
Six years after the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord, Tehran is rapidly accumulating enriched uranium, some of it very close to weapons grade. Experts fear that a bomb could be a short dash away....
Everything announced at the Triple-i Initiative Showcase (www.digitaltrends.com)
US Slams Strikes on Russia Oil Refineries as Risk to Oil Markets (www.bloomberg.com)
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IKEA furniture destroys some of Europe’s last remaining ancient forests (www.greenpeace.org)
EU approves major overhaul of migration rules (www.bbc.com)
Indonesia agrees to normalize ties with Israel as part of bid to join OECD (www.timesofisrael.com)
Bollywood is playing a large supporting role in India’s elections (theconversation.com)
Children failed by NHS amid toxic debate on gender identity, major review finds (www.independent.co.uk)
Major report warns ‘polarisation and stifling of debate’ has not only let children down but hampered medical and scientific progress in the area...
SUNSOFT is Back! レトロゲームセレクション on Steam [3 classic games, releases 18th April] (store.steampowered.com)
‘I cannot afford to live’: Gen Z is full of financial angst despite inheriting a golden job market (www.cnn.com)
EPA imposes first national limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water (www.nbcnews.com)
PFAS is a class of chemicals that can linger almost permanently in air, water and soil. Research suggests they are associated with a variety of health issues, including cancer....
Tallinn to demolish illegally constructed building (news.err.ee)
Intel investigating games crashing on 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors (www.theverge.com)
Legal pressures mount on Germany to cut aid to Israel (www.dw.com)
Last week, Berlin-based lawyers filed an “urgent appeal” on behalf of Palestinians against the German government in a German court, according to a statement by the European Legal Support Center, a nonprofit aligned with the Palestinian solidarity movement....
Security issue CVE-2024-2905: World-readable /etc/shadow & /etc/gshadow on Fedora CoreOS, IoT, Atomic Desktops (including Silverblue & Kinoite) (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
Current Fedora versions that were installed as Fedora 39 are affected....
Defederating with Threads overview (fedipact.veganism.social)
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Zambia uncovers 'sophisticated' Chinese cybercrime syndicate (www.bbc.com)
A “sophisticated internet fraud syndicate” has been uncovered in Zambia, leading to the arrest of 77 people, including 22 Chinese nationals....
Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? (supermeter.social)
Lately I've been really liking the idea of having something hosted on a RISC-V machine. RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is a competitor to ARM. The idea of having a something running on an open source operating system, running on an open standard CPU, served from my house, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling....