In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not. (www.propublica.org)
Stardew Valley creator confirms he's made "a ton of progress" on update 1.6 (www.eurogamer.net)
A teenage girl who says she discovered a camera in an airplane bathroom is suing American Airlines (apnews.com)
Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists (mixmag.net)
Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists:: The Uruguayan Parliament approved an amendment to the country’s copyright law last month
Geert Wilders' victory in Netherlands election spooks Europe (www.bbc.com)
The unexpectedly meaty win for controversial, hard-right politician Geert Wilders in Wednesday’s general election in the Netherlands set international headlines on fire....
OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff::Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking
Jan. 6 rioter who used sovereign citizen 'gobbledygook' at trial is found guilty (www.nbcnews.com)
USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide (arstechnica.com)
YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users (www.androidauthority.com)
YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users::Users are reporting that YouTube has begun adding a five second delay when loading a video on non-Chrome browsers like Firefox. Read on!
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion (lemmy.world)
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...
Valve releases the Steam Deck OLED with up to 1TB storage (store.steampowered.com)
N.Y. Times writer quits over open letter accusing Israel of ‘genocide’ - The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Bodies of Israeli dad, wheelchair-bound 16-year-old daughter found 12 days after Hamas’ music fest massacre (nypost.com)
Israeli Rabbis call on Netanyahu to bomb Gaza hospital (www.newsweek.com)
The letter posted on Israeli journalist Amit Segal channel to 184,000 followers says that "the nation of Israel will stand up bravery to strike at its enemies," according to a translation of the Hebrew. It goes on to justify targeting sites even "when the enemy hides behind a human shield."
The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution (www.spacebar.news)
Boris Johnson Suggested He Thought Covid Was ‘Nature’s Way of Dealing With Old People’ (www.bloomberg.com)
Ex-North Dakota lawmaker charged with traveling for sex with minor, receiving child sex abuse images (apnews.com)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A retired Republican state senator from North Dakota has been charged with traveling to Europe with the intent of paying for sex with a minor and with receiving images depicting child sexual abuse, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday....
The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank (www.politico.eu)
Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating (www.phoronix.com)
Panera adds warnings about caffeinated lemonade after suit over student’s death (www.theguardian.com)
Family sued after Sarah Katz died last year after drinking Charged Lemonade, apparently unaware of soda’s high caffeine content
Total War Warhammer 3 devs will remove Steam users starting boycotts (www.pcgamesn.com)
I haven’t checked in on this game since around launch. Anyone want to bring me up to speed on what’s happening? I gather the latest expansion pack is priced differently than prior DLC?...
House Speaker Mike Johnson Responds to New Round of Scrutiny About Black Son (www.vanityfair.com)
Mike Johnson’s meteoric elevation from an under-the-radar congressman from Louisiana to second-in-line to the U.S. presidency sent journalists, Democrats and Republicans alike to uncover information about the personal and professional history of the most right-wing and least experienced House Speaker in history, who took the...
Near-total internet blackout hits Gaza as Israel ramps up strikes (www.nbcnews.com)
Donald Trump fined $10,000 for second gag order violation in civil fraud case (www.reuters.com)
Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge’s top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer’s “girlfriend.”...
TIL that the judge in the Carroll rape case clarified that Trump did rape Jean Carroll (www.washingtonpost.com)
All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.