Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)
Joe Biden is correct that violent crime is near a 50-year low (www.poynter.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15948872...
A Ticketmaster hack spilled sensitive data for 560 million customers, hackers say (qz.com)
ShinyHunters posted on Tuesday night in a hacking forum that it obtained data from Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, including customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order details, Cyber Daily wrote. The group is reportedly attempting to sell the stolen data for $500 million....
TIL Making a living writing books is more or less as rare as becoming a billionaire (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
Deadly strike on Rafah a tragic mishap, Netanyahu says (www.bbc.com)
Google Tries to Pay Off the Antitrust Division & said juries (normal people) cannot decide hard cases. (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Rishi Sunak announces UK general election for Thursday 4 July (www.bbc.co.uk)
Republican bill aims to give Americans in Israeli military same benefits as US soldiers (www.middleeasteye.net)
Two Republican congressmen have introduced legislation that would provide the same employment and economic protections to Americans serving in the Israeli military as US citizens who get deployed to serve in the US military....
Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut (www.theverge.com)
'People got betrayed': Cardi B says she's not voting in the presidential election (www.msnbc.com)
Louisiana set to become 1st state requiring 10 Commandments be posted in schools (www.axios.com)
As Russia Advances, NATO Considers Sending Trainers Into Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war....
Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Reserves 10 times the North Sea’s output raise fears over drilling in protected region...
AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says (arstechnica.com)
Wife of U.S. soldier detained in Russia says he was having an affair, not involved in 'geopolitical intrigue' (www.nbcnews.com)
Megan Black said her husband’s trip to Russia was “ill-advised” but simply part of an extramarital affair. Black’s mother said she thought he had been set up by his girlfriend....
TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god (www.theguardian.com)
Also mistaken for fulgurite by the more naturalistically minded, apparently. Maybe most common in the Nordics, based on viking references?...
Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ (english.elpais.com)
It's Over for Fossil Smartwatches (www.droid-life.com)
GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features (9to5linux.com)
Why is coloring your face considered racist? (lemmy.world)
People in comments of this post pointed out coloring your face black is racist....
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
3 law officers killed, 5 others wounded trying to serve warrant in North Carolina, authorities say (apnews.com)
WTF Happened In 1971? (wtfhappenedin1971.com)
(kinda) A great website to share if you have no idea how to explain the downfall of the US economy....
How financially literate are Europeans? Not very - but who knows most? (www.euronews.com)
EU citizens are not doing well when it comes to financial literacy. Nearly half lack an understanding of basic financial concepts, including inflation....
Tennessee legislature bans local cities and counties from passing their own red flag laws (www.newschannel5.com)
