Far-right network OAN retracts false story about Michael Cohen affair with Stormy Daniels (www.cnn.com)
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse (github.com)
publicado de forma cruzada desde: beehaw.org/post/13437780...
White House plans to limit Biden's graduation speeches as campuses erupt in protests (www.nbcnews.com)
Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? (www.androidauthority.com)
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit (blog.joinmastodon.org)
Tennessee passes first-of-its-kind law attacking trans kids (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Paramount Board Might Oust CEO Bob Bakish Amid M&A Talks: Report (variety.com)
M&A = Merger and Acquisition
Student Protest Leader at Columbia: ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ (www.nytimes.com)
Video of incendiary comments by one of the leaders of the student protest encampment at Columbia University surfaced online Thursday evening, forcing the school to again confront an issue at the core of the conflict rippling across campuses nationwide: the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism....
Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) (snikket.org)
For self-hosting though, the project I work on - Snikket - uses XMPP but has all the nice modern things you’d expect ready to go right out of the box, more like a Matrix (Synapse/Element) setup. Probably the biggest thing missing for Snikket right now is an official web app (we currently have Android and iOS apps)....
Influential LGBTQ+ group pulls Biden endorsement over 'perilous' handling of Israel-Hamas war (www.advocate.com)
Airlines will soon have to pay you back if they cancel or delay your flight (www.theverge.com)
As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)
The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....
U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs (www.npr.org)
Orthopedic Surgeon Uses Apple Vision Pro for Rotator Cuff Surgery (hothardware.com)
In this niche case the Vision Pro seems like it has some compelling benefits.
Nestlé adds more sugar to baby food in poorer countries, report finds (wapo.st)
Who’s the boss when it comes to defense: NATO or the EU? (www.politico.eu)
Both NATO and the EU want to spend a €100 billion on defense — and that’s leading to clashes between the two Brussels-based institutions....
Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration (wedistribute.org)
Ghost is a huge publishing platform, and a sizeable rival to Substack. By adopting ActivityPub, they are opening up to an entirely new audience, and harnessing the power of the Fediverse.
Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’ (www.theverge.com)
They’re not done yet. Just announcing (and the verge reporting on it)....
So many people are downloading Fallout mods after watching the show that the Nexus is straining to support all the traffic (www.pcgamer.com)
Judge in Trump case orders media not to report where potential jurors work (apnews.com)
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president....
Homelessness case before US supreme court could have far-reaching effects (www.theguardian.com)
Justices to consider constitutionality of punishing people for sleeping outside as western states seek to address encampments...
This journalist that made the compilation of the "This is a danger to our democracy" videos is being sued by the DOJ (slrpnk.net)
If you havent seen the compilation video here it is: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xVufYXaGg8...
Netanyahu's outraged response after report of pending US sanctions on IDF (www.newsweek.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement condemning sanctions on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after a report surfaced claiming that the Biden administration is set to blacklist a unit for alleged human rights violations in Gaza....
Evan Prodromou - Bytedance: Add ActivityPub to Tiktok Notes (evanp.me)
The grandfather of the fediverse @evan wants TikTok Notes to join the fediverse
The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code (womenwhocode.com)
