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Hamas Rejects Cease-Fire Proposal, Dashing Biden’s Hopes of Near Term Deal (www.allsides.com)

Wendy’s will experiment with dynamic surge pricing for food in 2025 (arstechnica.com)

Apple Cancels Electric Car Project (www.macrumors.com)

Apple Cancels Electric Car Project::Apple has canceled all plans to release an autonomous, electric vehicle, reports Bloomberg. Apple has been working on an Apple Car for more than a…

How America’s once great department stores became a dying breed (www.cnn.com)

Modernized, streamlined, and fediverse-friendly: OpenSource.org is fully migrated and ready to connect! (opensource.org)

Why new fan blog “Final Fantasy VIII is the Best” is the best (arstechnica.com)

Gemini is about to slide into your DMs (www.theverge.com)

Google’s AI chatbot is coming to Messages. Meanwhile, Android Auto gets some AI smarts and Google Docs will let you add handwritten comments.

Two-month-old Palestinian boy dies of hunger amid Israel’s war on Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)

A two-month-old Palestinian boy has died from starvation in northern Gaza, according to media reports, days after the United Nations warned of an “explosion” in child deaths due to Israel’s war on the besieged enclave....

The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes (apnews.com)

The killing of a 22-year-old nursing student has once again put the spotlight on dangers faced by female athletes who practice sports alone.

‘House of horrors’ rabbi takes cushy deal after pleading guilty to enslaving 30 women: reports (www.msn.com)

After Nonbinary Student’s Death, Schools Chief Defends Strict Gender Policies (www.nytimes.com)

Trump says he strongly supports IVF after Alabama court ruling puts new pressure on Republicans (apnews.com)

Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy (www.bbc.com)

The German parliament has backed a new law to allow the recreational use of cannabis....

Disturbing AI Images of Children Found for Sale on Shutterstock (petapixel.com)

Someone used Shutterstock's AI image generator to create them.

Greener ‘water batteries’ a step closer (www.theguardian.com)

Israel Gaza: China condemns US veto of call for immediate ceasefire at UN - BBC (www.bbc.com)

Kremlin rejects call for independent postmortem on opposition leader Alexei Navalny (abcnews.go.com)

Kremlin officials rejected on Tuesday a call for an independent postmortem examination on the remains of opposition leader Alexei Navalny....

US again vetoes UN action in Israel-Hamas war, blocks ceasefire call (www.reuters.com)

Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (archive.ph)

“An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut down, as Elon Musk’s changes seem to have closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account....

Denmark announced donations of its entire stock. (sh.itjust.works)

Largest Covid vaccine study finds links to health conditions (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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Jury convicts Iowa police chief of lying to feds to acquire machine guns (apnews.com)

The jury convicted Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt, 47, of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making false statements to the agency, and illegal possession of a machine gun. He was convicted on 11 of 15 charges....