Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilities (techcrunch.com)
Exclusive: Israeli forces fired on food convoy in Gaza, UN documents and satellite analysis reveals (edition.cnn.com)
Israel-Gaza war: World Food Programme stops deliveries to northern Gaza - BBC (www.bbc.com)
Cougar attacks five mountain bikers on a trail in Washington state (www.npr.org)
A group of five cyclists were riding on a trail in Fall City, Wash., when they were attacked by at least one cougar this past weekend.
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches (www.theregister.com)
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches::Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too
Linux Gaming Distros: Ubuntu and Manjaro Fall Further Into Oblivion - February 2024 (boilingsteam.com)
What's stopping ukraine from using tunnel boring machines in order to go pass russian lines ? (sh.itjust.works)
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI Wants to Eat Google Search's Lunch (gizmodo.com)
Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Payday 3 launched for Windows PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S in September 2023 but has seemingly struggled to win over players. The title currently has a ‘mixed’ rating on Steam with over 36,000 user reviews, although the vast majority of recent reviews have been ‘mostly negative.’...
One dead, nine injured in shooting at Chiefs' victory parade (www.espn.com)
Not surprised unfortunately, anyone guessing not right-winger?
[Speculation] Will Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 explain the Romulan Supernova? – Trek Central (trekcentral.net)
Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah (znetwork.org)
Israel frees two hostages in Rafah under cover of air strike; health officials say 37 killed (www.reuters.com)
DOHA/JERUSALEM, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Israel launched a special forces operation that freed two Israeli hostages in Rafah amid air strikes early on Monday, which local health officials said killed 37 people and wounded dozens in the southern Gaza city....
Sky News ‘Not Seen Proof’ That UNWRA Aids Hamas After Reviewing Israel’s ‘Evidence’ (www.mediaite.com)
“The Israeli intelligence documents make several claims that Sky News has not seen proof of and many of the claims, even if true, do not directly implicate UNRWA,” Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall wrote Thursday.
Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses (arstechnica.com)
Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses::Firms wanted seven years’ worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.
Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages (www.cnbc.com)
Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages::Aware uses AI to analyze companies’ employee messages across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other communications services.
The president seized 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children pay the consequences (apnews.com)
Tears welled in Alex’s eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El Salvador’s police as she walked to work in a clothing factory....
Supreme Court justices steer clear of insurrection question in Trump ballot case (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/supreme-court-justices-steer-cl…
4.0 magnitude earthquake recorded about 100 miles off Florida coast in Atlantic Ocean (abcnews.go.com)
Disney invests $1.5bn in Epic Games and announces major Fortnite partnership (www.gamesindustry.biz)
‘Not my fault the truck don’t surf’: Florida man arrested after driving car into the ocean (www.wfla.com)
A Florida man was arrested Tuesday morning after he drove through a closed beach and into the ocean in Volusia County....
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (www.wired.com)
WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It’s revealed some more details on how that will work....
Tucker Carlson confirms Russia trip and teases Putin interview (www.theguardian.com)
Far-right pundit and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson confirmed on Tuesday he was in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin, and said he will air his conversation with Russia’s president to counter what he described as pro-Ukraine “fawning pep sessions” by western media covering the war....
