Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition (apnews.com)
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday....
Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app (stackdiary.com)
Americans Show Heightened Concern About Antisemitism (news.gallup.com)
He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000 (apnews.com)
Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday....
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)
Why doesn't the military do this? are they stupid? (lemmy.world)
Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could’ve been the most popular sims alternative, but it’s suddenly been cancelled.
How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air? (www.wired.com)
Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says (www.theguardian.com)
Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official...
Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)
New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an “AI powered” alt-text generator....
Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" (www.salon.com)
“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”
The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones (x.com)
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It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina (arstechnica.com)
Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' (www.theregister.com)
'This is a Crime Ahainst Humanity': 600,000 Children in Line of Fire as IDF Moves on Rafah (therealnews.com)
EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants (zeteo.com)
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 (www.tomshardware.com)
Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding (www.pcgamer.com)
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
2 men are charged with cutting down famous 150-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall in England (apnews.com)
Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday....
How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone (www.cnet.com)
Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)
[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it’s building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”