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Joe Biden Moves to Lift Nearly Every Restriction on Israel’s Access to U.S. Weapons Stockpile (theintercept.com)

Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads (80.lv)

Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads::Is it a bug or a new approach to ads in their games?

Gaza war to continue for at least two more months, says Israel defence minister (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

Florida man arrested for pooping on dead possum during rush hour traffic (nypost.com)

Chainsaw in hand, ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei upends Argentina’s politics (www.france24.com)

OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)

OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.

Will Linux on Itanium be saved? Absolutely not (www.theregister.com)

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 (www.theguardian.com)

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Bowen: Ceasefire demands will grow without proof of Hamas HQ at Al-Shifa (www.bbc.com)

Describe a game without revealing its name! (kbin.social)

Let the people try to guess!...

Massive cryptomining rig discovered under Polish court’s floor, stealing power (arstechnica.com)

Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading. Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points. (www.wired.co.uk)

Xi told Biden Taiwan is biggest, most dangerous issue in bilateral ties (www.reuters.com)

Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden during their four-hour meeting on Wednesday that Taiwan was the biggest, most dangerous issue in U.S.-China ties, a senior U.S. official told reporters....

The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less (www.theverge.com)

The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less::The Federal Communications Commission has passed new digital discrimination rules that hold telecom providers accountable for not providing equal internet access.

Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users (apnews.com)

A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions between the Kremlin and the West over the fighting in Ukraine....

This chart shows why millennials, the biggest generation in American history, will keep housing prices sky-high for years to come (fortune.com)

A Quick Refresher on The Fediverse Meta, Blocklists, and Everything Up to Now (blog.silvereagle.dev)

Vatican says it's permissible for transgender Catholics to be baptized (apnews.com)

Indy police arrest ‘terrorist’ for purposely driving her car into what she thought was a Jewish schoo (fox59.com)

AI bot performed insider trading and lied about its actions, study shows (www.businessinsider.nl)

Google emails revealing disagreements b/w Product and Advertising teams about manipulating search to drive ad revenue (gizmodo.com.au)

tl/dr: email chains used as evidence in DOJ Google antitrust case show internal arguments about drops in # of searches, and how to increase them so that people see more ads. Search team wants to create better search results to keep people coming back....

Facebook Puts a Price on Privacy in EU, EEA and Switzerland: It’s 9.99€ a Month + 6€ for Each Extra Account (www.wired.com)

Ad free Facebook and Instagram is officially on. I’m trying to stay open minded but honestly it’s too expensive especially with this sneaky account center rule unless you’re in an unfortunate position where you need to spend a lot of time on these platforms....

The AI Politicians Would Like to Speak With You Now - Politicians are using AI doppelgängers to reach voters. It’s a trend that’s about to explode. (gizmodo.com)

Over the last month, some Spanish-speaking New Yorkers got a recorded phone call from Mayor Eric Adams speaking their native language. “Hola, soy el alcalde Eric Adams,” the mayor says in a monotone but flawless accent, before launching into a pitch for jobs with the city government. The truth is Adams isn’t multilingual,...