Global sea level jumped due to El Niño and climate change, says NASA (www.lemonde.fr)
How Israeli settlers are expanding illegal outposts amid Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)
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Dragon's Dogma 2 released on Steam [mixed reviews so far] (store.steampowered.com)
Japan schools move to protect cheerleaders from upskirting at sporting events (www.theguardian.com)
Several schools have brought in shorts for cheerleaders at baseball tournament while another positioned teachers between the cheerleaders and spectators...
Tired of inflated ticket prices, Yungblud is launching his own affordable music festival (apnews.com)
Tired of inflated ticket prices, recording artist Yungblud is launching his own affordable music festival....
Taps have run dry across South Africa's largest city in an unprecedented water crisis (apnews.com)
What we all have to look forward to in the near future...
'We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits (fortune.com)
The Epic Games Store is launching its iOS and Android versions later this year (alternativeto.net)
Introducing: The Community Edition Project [Nothing Phone 2a] (nothing.community)
Steam Deck reclaims its top spot, knocking Helldivers 2 down one place (www.destructoid.com)
Linux kernel 4.14 gets a life extension, thanks to OpenELA (www.theregister.com)
Democracies under threat around the globe (www.dw.com)
The hard facts are sobering: According to a new study, the quality of democracy has deteriorated over the past 20 years in 137 countries that are considered developing or emerging economies. According to the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Transformation Index,” there are now 63 democracies compared to 74 autocracies. In other...
digiKam, KDE's powerful photo managing software, reaches version 8.3.0 (www.digikam.org)
Denuvo Unveils New Tech That Will Make It Easier for Devs to Track Down Leakers (www.ign.com)
Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns (www.forbes.com)
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U.S. investigating Meta for role in illicit drug sales, WSJ reports (www.cnbc.com)
U.S. prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether Facebook-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the illegal sale of drugs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter....
COVID backlash could leave the U.S. less ready for the next pandemic (www.axios.com)
Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell (www.sciencealert.com)
Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week (techraptor.net)
Labour economists see rising recession danger in the US (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Russians head to polls in a vote set to extend Putin's rule. His foes are in jail, in exile or dead (apnews.com)
Helpful victims less likely to be injured -Toronto Police (www.blogto.com)
To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door, because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.
Report claims Yemen's Houthis have a hypersonic missile, possibly raising stakes in Red Sea crisis (apnews.com)
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