'Jubilant' Giuliani was mocking prosecutors seconds before they found him at party (www.rawstory.com)
Gentoo users be like (sh.itjust.works)
Houston storm: At least 5 killed, more than 600,000 without power (abcnews.go.com)
French Tiktok ban makes VPN usage soar in New Caledonia (www.techradar.com)
Trump and Johnson spread unfounded fears by urging non-citizen voting ban (www.theguardian.com)
Trump falls back on false claim that non-citizen voting threatened his popular vote, despite data proving that it’s a lie...
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” (www.theverge.com)
ENDLESS Legend is Currently Free to Claim on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Offer ends on May 23rd.
Supreme Court sides with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spurning a conservative attack (apnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau....
Hundreds of counties around the USA have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits (www.newyorker.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/the-jails-that-forbid-children-…
Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)
US says Israel’s use of US arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete (apnews.com)
Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative (ioc.exchange)
Codeberg was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to :...
Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new...
Cruise ship sails into New York with dead endangered whale across its bow (www.cbc.ca)
A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 13-metre dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said....
EU agrees €3B raid on Russian assets to buy weapons for Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Late concession by Belgium paved way for deal on using profits to buy ammo for Kyiv’s war effort....
New York attorney general sues facilities promoting ‘abortion pill reversal’ (www.theguardian.com)
Heartbeat International, affiliated with more than 2,000 facilities, aims to convince people to continue their pregnancies...
Kristi Noem defends apparent threat to kill Biden’s dog Commander: ‘Say hello to Cricket’ (nypost.com)
UK surgeon who described Gaza ‘massacre’ denied entry to France (www.theguardian.com)
A London surgeon who has provided testimony over the current war in Gaza after operating during the conflict has been denied entry to France, where he was due to speak in the French senate later on Saturday....
An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride (apnews.com)
With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary...
Biden, speaking on campus protests, says both free speech and rule of law 'must be upheld' (abcnews.go.com)
Microsoft admits it can't fix Windows 10 KB5034441 "0x80070643 - ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE" (www.neowin.net)
Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members (futurism.com)
Putin’s fuel problem: How Ukraine is sapping Russia’s diesel and gasoline (www.politico.eu)
Ukraine is taking out oil refineries inside Russia, cratering Moscow’s supplies and sending local prices soaring....
Alan Wake 2 Still Hasn't Earned Back Its Budget (techraptor.net)
FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing (neuters.de)
The carriers sold “real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement....