Russia says it rehearsed delivering a massive retaliatory nuclear strike (www.reuters.com)
Russian forces simulate nuclear strike as upper house rescinds ratification of test ban treaty (apnews.com)
Russia’s military conducted a simulated nuclear strike in a drill Wednesday overseen by President Vladimir Putin, hours after the upper house of parliament voted to rescind the country’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban....
Turkey’s Erdogan says Hamas is a ‘liberation’ not a ‘terrorist’ group (english.alarabiya.net)
Japan investigates foreign YouTubers accused of dodging train fares and stealing food (www.theguardian.com)
The rise in nuisance influencers comes as tourism numbers in Japan near their pre-pandemic levels
Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes (gizmodo.com)
Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes::Microsoft now allows users to disable automatic date conversion, which means scientists no longer have to worry about using alternative names for genes.
New Recipe for Efficient, Environmentally Friendly Battery Recycling / A new method enables 100% of the aluminum and 98% of the lithium from spent car batteries to be recovered and recycled. (www.technologynetworks.com)
New Recipe for Efficient, Environmentally Friendly Battery Recycling / A new method enables 100% of the aluminum and 98% of the lithium from spent car batteries to be recovered and recycled.::A new, efficient method enables 100% of the aluminum and 98% of the lithium from spent car batteries to be recovered and recycled while...
Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon - A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon's buying and selling safeguards. (arstechnica.com)
Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon - A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon’s buying and selling safeguards.::A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon’s buying and selling safeguards.
Israeli settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory (www.theguardian.com)
As Gaza is bombed, EU staff decry chief’s ‘uncontrolled’ support of Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
Happy 19th Birthday, Ubuntu! (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Berlin: 174 arrested at unauthorized pro-Palestinian events (www.dw.com)
'I Couldn't Shift Anything': Senior State Department Official Resigns Over Biden's Gaza Policy (www.huffpost.com)
WhatsApp will now let users log into two accounts simultaneously (news.retiolus.net)
A romantic story (startrek.website)
House speakership up in air as resistance to Jim Jordan hardens (www.bbc.com)
Despite intense lobbying behind the scenes, 20 Republicans refused to back the right-wing Ohio congressman....
Law firm rescinds job offers to Harvard students who signed Israel letters (www.nbcnews.com)
Top U.S. law firm Davis Polk announced in an internal email that it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard and Columbia universities who signed on to organizational statements about Israel, one of the latest responses to open letters from university groups about the Israel-Hamas conflict that have...
The internet is littered with fake reviews. Amazon, Glassdoor and others are trying to fight back (apnews.com)
Israel Readying Emergency Regulations Allowing Arrest of Journalists for Factual Reporting (www.commondreams.org)
LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees (www.npr.org)
Gaza aid stuck as Egypt says Israel not cooperating - Reuters (www.reuters.com)
X fined $610,500 in Australia first for failing to crack down on child sexual abuse material (www.theguardian.com)
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has become the first online platform to be issued with a $610,500 fine under Australia’s Online Safety Act for its failure to meet basic online safety expectations....
China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxis (www.cnbc.com)
China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxis::Ehang shares have nearly doubled in price this year, before trading was temporarily halted Monday pending a significant announcement.
The gamble: can genetically-modified mosquitoes end disease? (www.irishtimes.com)
The gene engineering technology they are using could, in just a few generations – a matter of months when it comes to mosquitoes – make every member of the species that transmits malaria here, the Anopheles coluzzii, effectively immune to the parasite....