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Ohio Chick-fil-A owner allegedly drove 400 miles to abuse teen (www.usatoday.com)

California’s minimum wage isn’t enough to keep up with workers’ costs of living, new report says (calmatters.org)

Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts (www.cnbc.com)

During a keynote speech in New York on Monday from the managing director of Google’s Israel business, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.”...

How A Small Video Game Narrative Studio Wound Up At The Heart Of A Massive, Anti-Woke Conspiracy Theory - Aftermath (aftermath.site)

Sweet Baby Inc doesn’t even remotely do what many think it does, but on the modern internet, that doesn’t matter

Pixel 8a gets more expensive: Colors, prices, memory of the new Google phone (winfuture.de)

YouTube Music staff laid off in middle of meeting about employment rights with Austin City Council (completemusicupdate.com)

Claude 3 launched by Anthropic — new AI model leaves OpenAI's GPT-4 in the dust (www.tomsguide.com)

Title is a bit dramatic, but yes, Claude 3 claims to be better than GPT 4 in most ways.

Sit up straight, damnit (slrpnk.net)

Images suggest Israel ran over Palestinian detainee with armoured vehicle (www.middleeasteye.net)

Israeli forces in Gaza destroyed the body of a Palestinian man by running him over either using a tank or a bulldozer, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said on Friday....

US Blocks Security Council Statement Condemning IDF Killing of Gazans Seeking Aid (www.commondreams.org)

[Jellyfin] Announcing Finamp's Redesign Beta (v0.9.2-beta) (github.com)

Hi everyone! We’re incredibly excited to announce that we’re launching a beta of Finamp’s redesign today. This is a major update to the app, and we’re looking for feedback from anyone willing to try it out before we roll it out to everyone....

Sam Bankman-Fried Calls for Shorter Prison Sentence, Citing Autism (www.wsj.com)

Lawyers for the FTX founder say he wasn’t motivated by greed but by a desire to better the world through philanthropic giving...

Chinese retailer caught selling Starlink terminals to Russia (www.newsweek.com)

SpaceX’s Starlink user terminals are being openly sold in Russia, though CEO Elon Musk has denied knowledge of any such sales in the country....

Nokia is replacing Huawei at Deutsche Telekom sites in Germany (www.lightreading.com)

Canada to start airdropping aid into Gaza within days (www.cbc.ca)

The Canadian government will begin airdropping aid into Gaza within the next week, a government source tells CBC News.

Argentina: Milei government on crusade against inclusive language (euro.dayfr.com)

The country is breaking apart but I guess is more important to avoid using feminine expressions on official papers that make us look homo or something

A phone with 94 days of standby! (www.androidpolice.com)

It’s just a provocation from Energizer, but it’s real!

Troubled Commercial Real Estate Loans Outstrip Reserves at Top US Banks (www.businessinsider.com)

China invents most powerful detonation engine for hypersonic flight (www.scmp.com)

The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could, in theory, lift an aircraft from a runway to more than 30km (18.6 miles) into the stratosphere and continuously accelerate it to 16 times the speed of sound....

Cops and gun owners could get immunity from most wrongful death lawsuits under proposed Louisiana legislation (lailluminator.com)

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