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Sydney police plan to use ‘extraordinary’ powers to search pro-Palestinian protesters and demand ID (www.theguardian.com)

Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)

ACT test scores for US students drop to new 30-year low (apnews.com)

High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according to the nonprofit organization that administers the test....

More than 1,000 birds killed in one night after hitting the same Chicago building (www.cnn.com)

In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of “bird-friendly” building measures....

EU moves to outlaw fees on hand luggage, seat allocation (www.ch-aviation.com)

Some cows lactose (lemmy.zip)

Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit (www.reuters.com)

X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information (www.theguardian.com)

Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is ‘extremely concerning’ ahead of Australia’s Indigenous voice to parliament referendum

Drug mimics exercise in mice, raises metabolism, increases endurance, burns fat (medicalxpress.com)

Russian troops raped women as old as 83 while their families were forced to listen (www.businessinsider.nl)

Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage (www.ign.com)

Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage::Star Citizen’s long-running development has inched forward yet again, this time to Alpha 3.20 stage.

Colorado officer who placed handcuffed suspect into police vehicle that was hit by a train sentenced to 30 months probation, 100 hours community service (www.cnn.com)

Because nothing says “accident” like leaving a prisoner in the middle of a railroad crossing!

Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill (www.pcgamer.com)

California, the biggest state in the US when it comes to both population and the sheer volume of tech companies squeezed into its borders, has just passed the country's most extreme right to repair bill in the US (via Ars Technica). It's the third state to pass such a bill, but goes further than either Minnesota or New York in...

CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978 (www.epi.org)

“average top CEO compensation was $15.6 million in 2021, up 9.8% since 2020. In 2021, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 399-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and a big increase from 20-to-1 in 1965 and 59-to-1 in 1989”

Joe Biden says ‘I’m going to bed’ before being cut off in press conference (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Lol someone please defend this war criminal.

Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states (www.aljazeera.com)

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis apologize over letters of support for Danny Masterson (abcnews.go.com)

The three women were members of the Church of Scientology, as is Masterson. All three women said they were initially hesitant to speak to law enforcement because they said church teachings discouraged reporting to police. The women eventually left the church....

FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)

FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”::Intuit plans appeal, slams FTC’s “predetermined decision.”

X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data (stackdiary.com)

But what if you do? Will you get caught?