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18 elementary students, teacher fall ill after dry ice experiment in Tennessee classroom (www.usatoday.com)

Trump's legal debts top a half-billion dollars. Will he have to pay? (www.independent.co.uk)

Donald Trump’s legal debts might now exceed a half-billion dollars...

Woman formerly known as Rachel Dolezal fired from teaching gig over OnlyFans account (www.nbcnews.com)

Toronto police increase presence along hospital row after pro-Palestinian protest (www.cbc.ca)

Protest swiftly condemned by all levels of government; organizing group denies hospital targeted...

Interview: Jeri Ryan On Taking Seven From Borg To Bi Captain Of The Enterprise To ‘Star Trek: Legacy’ (trekmovie.com)

Israel in breach of international law if it denies Gaza food and water, says Cameron (www.theguardian.com)

Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor (www.theregister.com)

10 Years Passed Since Flappy Bird Left Its Fans (gengamer.in)

Phil Spencer has reportedly reassured employees Microsoft ‘won’t stop making Xbox consoles’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)

Finnish carrier Finnair is asking passengers to voluntarily weigh themselves before boarding flights (apnews.com)

Almost everything that gets onto a commercial plane — fuel, checked-in baggage, cargo and meals — is weighed. For passengers and their cabin bags, most airlines use average data....

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)

How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away....

This spammer told an university that i agree to get email communications (feddit.it)

The university allows URLs as a “person name”, so the spammer bots filled forms everywhere filling with my email and the spam URL as my name. So i’m getting bombarded by “legit” emails with a spam url as in “hi SPAM_URL”

Second hand disks? (www.ebay.ca)

What do you think about buying second hand disks and using higher redundancy?...

Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation (Google maps alternative) (organicmaps.app)

Congressional debate cut short in California by shouting and Oct. 7 denial (www.haaretz.com)

Archive link: archive.ph/M3WBw...

Lawsuit Accuses Anna's Archive of Hacking WorldCat, Stealing 2.2 TB Data * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

American nonprofit OCLC is known globally for its leading database of bibliographic records, WorldCat. A few months ago, many of these records were posted publicly by the shadow library search engine, Anna’s Archive. OCLC believes that this is the result of a year-long hack and, with a lawsuit filed at an Ohio federal court,...

DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs (www.cnbc.com)

DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs::DocuSign announced Tuesday it will cut 6% of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan

Republican Senator Says He’d Totally Do a Coup if He Gets the Chance (newrepublic.com)

Nicaragua taking Germany, Canada, UK, Netherlands to ICJ for genocide (english.almayadeen.net)

Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend (www.bloomberg.com)

Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend::Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg stands to receive a payout of about $700 million a year from the social media giant’s first-ever dividend for investors.

A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) (yewtu.be)

A federated internet is forming. It’s built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.