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South Africa's lawsuit against Israel was supported in 61 countries (afrinz.ru)

XOrg Server and Xwayland Patched Against Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

Even if your distro is using Wayland by default, the Xwayland implementation is probably still used for compatibility with X11 apps, so you still need to patch your systems and make sure that the latest version is installed.

Ubisoft's customer values (www.ign.com)

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get ‘Comfortable’ Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off...

Uber shuts down alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after its purchase (www.engadget.com)

Back in 2021, Uber purchased Drizly for $1.1 billion shortly after it reported that its food delivery segment kept its losses manageable during the pandemic. Three years later, the company is shutting down the US-based alcohol delivery service, Axios has reported. Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, Uber’s SVP of delivery, told the...

Germany, which committed genocide in Namibia, blasted for defending Israel by African nation - UPI.com (www.upi.com)

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State trooper plunges into icy Vermont pond to save 8-year-old girl (apnews.com)

A Vermont state trooper plunged into a frigid pond and pulled out an 8-year-old girl who had fallen through the ice while playing with siblings. The child survived and fully recovered after a brief hospital stay....

Analysts are calling 2023's decline in PC shipments 'unparalleled in the industry's recorded history' but suggest the only way now is up (www.pcgamer.com)

Essential NPC (slrpnk.net)

How Israeli forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival (new.thecradle.co)

Why is the EU silent on South Africa's genocide case against Israel? (www.euronews.com)

The first hearing in a landmark lawsuit against Israel enters its second day on Friday at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Google says it's killing 17 Assistant features to improve the user experience (mobilesyrup.com)

Johnson Says He’ll Stand by Deal to Avert Shutdown, Spurning Hard-Right Demands (www.nytimes.com)

Speaker Mike Johnson said on Friday that he stood by the spending deal he negotiated with Democrats to avert a government shutdown, spurning demands from ultraconservatives who have pressured him to jettison the agreement....

Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist with Targets, Document Suggests (theintercept.com)

Targeting intelligence — the information used to conduct airstrikes and fire long-range artillery weapons — has played a central role in Israel’s siege of Gaza. A document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggests that the U.S. Air Force sent officers specializing in this exact form of intelligence to Israel...

13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives (itsfoss.com)

For those of you who don’t want to use a ChatGPT but want a LLM.

Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark (www.ign.com)

Starbucks sued for allegedly using coffee from farms with rights abuses while touting its ‘ethical’ sourcing (www.nbcnews.com)

The lawsuit calls for the coffee chain to end its “unfair and deceptive” trade practices and argues that the company is aware of the child and forced labor on some of its supplier farms....

TIL the fortune-telling practice of Tyromancy uses cheese to predict the future. (www.saveur.com)

Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm (arstechnica.com)

Based on Mirai malware, self-replicating NoaBot installs cryptomining app on infected devices.

In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings (fosstodon.org)

COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux....

Air Canada passenger opens cabin door, falls out of plane before takeoff at YYZ (globalnews.ca)

10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science (scitechdaily.com)

10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science::A new material that doesn’t just rival the strength of diamonds and graphene, but boasts a yield strength 10 times greater than Kevlar, renowned for its use in bulletproof vests. Researchers at Delft University of Technology, led by...