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Paris residents set to vote on plan to triple parking charges for SUVs (www.theguardian.com)

Pig Brain Kept Alive for Five Hours While Separated from the Body (www.syfy.com)

Hamas command centre found under cemetery Israel accused of desecrating (nationalpost.com)

China sees two 'bowls of poison' in Biden and Trump and ponders who is the lesser of two evils (apnews.com)

Nautilus File Manager Gets More Features Ahead of the GNOME 46 Release - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

Closing toilet lid before flushing doesn't keep viral spray inside, study suggests (www.cidrap.umn.edu)

Contrary to previous study findings, closing the toilet lid before flushing doesn’t stop aerosolized viruses from contaminating bathroom surfaces, scientists from the University of Arizona and Reckitt Benckiser LLC, the company that makes the disinfectant used in the study, report in the American Journal of Infection Control....

Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border (apnews.com)

Zelensky signs decree recognizing some Russian territories as historically inhabited by Ukrainians (kyivindependent.com)

Anyone ever have a baked potato explode? (kbin.social)

Idle question. I've always heard that you need to prick the skins before baking a potato. The potential consequence for failure to do so is a catastrophic potato explosion....

US military strikes another Houthi-controlled site after warning ships to avoid parts of Red Sea (www.kcrg.com)

The data is in: RTO policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care (www.businessinsider.com)

Billionaire CEOs were quick to sing the praises of working from home at the start of the pandemic, calling it the way of the future — but over the last three years, they’ve slowly changed their tune....

Nearly 200 names linked to Jeffrey Epstein expected to be made public (www.theguardian.com)

List could be released as soon as Tuesday after deadline for objections to unsealing of names passes midnight Monday...

Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox (soapbox.pub)

A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. (news.yahoo.com)

A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage.::The flight system allows a plane to be remote operated by a pilot on the ground, which could streamline pilot airline operations in the future.

Orlando newspaper publishes spread of 673 books banned in Florida county in 2023 (thehill.com)

The Orlando Sentinel published a two-page print spread Thursday listing 673 books that have been removed from classrooms in Orange County in 2023 due to fears they violate the state’s new laws banning “sexual conduct” from public schools....

Steam Winter Sale is coming(Today), along with voting in the Steam Awards (steamcommunity.com)

UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)

UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals “insane” say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time (www.businessinsider.com)

A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time::Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android [UPDATED] (techcrunch.com)

UPDATE: Beeper, through their Twitter account, is saying that they’re working on it and “hope to have good news to share soon”:...

Beeper Mini (play.google.com)

So there is this app claiming on-device iMessage functionality on Android. Seems cool but only has subscription based pricing. Does anyone know of a way to circumvent this?...

French law upholds cows' right to moo in countryside (www.nst.com.my)

PARIS: Urbanites seeking peace and quiet in the bucolic French countryside will have more difficulty in taking farmers to court over crowing roosters, mooing cows and stinking pigs in the future after parliament passed a new law, reported German news agency (dpa).