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Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again while talking to reporters (www.washingtonpost.com)

A new Titanic expedition is planned. The US is fighting it, says wreck is a grave site (apnews.com)

The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to recover items of historical interest from the sunken Titanic, citing a federal law and an international agreement that treat the shipwreck as a hallowed gravesite....

China map: India lodges 'strong protest' over territory claims (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Sports leagues ask US for “instantaneous” DMCA takedowns and website blocking (arstechnica.com)

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what do we live for? (sh.itjust.works)

BRICS MATERIALS: the flourishing intra-BRICS oil trade (bne.eu)

Addition of KSA, UAE, Iran means share has doubled to 42% of crude oil output in 2022. "Saudi pricing oil exports to China and India in non-dollar currencies does not spell the end of the dollar as the international currency of choice,” says ING. Trade within bloc makes trade hard to sanction by West.

Google Flights will now tell you when it's the cheapest time to book | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Nothing OS 2.0 is available now for Nothing’s first phone (www.theverge.com)

Nothing has released its latest skinned Android 13 OS for the Phone 1, handing down updated monochrome aesthetics and other software features from the newer Nothing Phone 2.

This Radical New Metal from Outer Space Could Transform Everything—from Electric Vehicles to Nuclear Submarines (www.popularmechanics.com)

This Radical New Metal from Outer Space Could Transform Everything—from Electric Vehicles to Nuclear Submarines::Two high-profile labs are on the verge mass produce a metal only found in space—tetrantaenite. That could revolutionize how how we make everything—from phones to nuclear subs.

Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid (based on Debian Sid) Developer Preview released to public (fosstodon.org)

YouTube TV urged to drop '$600 less than cable' ad claim (www.lightreading.com)

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8 Reasons Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50 Billion Messages a Day With Only 32 Engineers (newsletter.systemdesign.one)

Kentucky high school teens charged with "terroristic threats" after TikTok challenge (www.cbsnews.com)

Three Kentucky teens were charged with terroristic threatening after participating in a TikTok challenge, Oldham County Police said in a news statement on Friday....

Undercover With the New Alt-Right (www.thenation.com)

Axolotl: This Incredible Creature Can Regenerate Its Brain, Heart, And Limbs (yt.revvy.de)

The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch (www.nytimes.com)

In 2017, Michael Moritz, the billionaire venture capitalist, sent a note to a potential investor about what he described as an unusual opportunity: a chance to invest in the creation of a new California city....

Greece renews its calls for British Museum to return Parthenon Marbles in wake of priceless thefts (www.euronews.com)

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Canada: 14 whales have died at aquarium since 2019, exposé reveals (www.theguardian.com)

Apple backs California Right to Repair Act after long fight (www.theregister.com)

Had to go to 'custom' and type zero too (sh.itjust.works)

Trump Returns to the Service Formerly Known as Twitter (www.nytimes.com)

Absent for more than two years, former President Donald J. Trump posted his mug shot on the site, now called X.

Justice Department Sues SpaceX for Discriminating Against Asylees and Refugees in Hiring (www.justice.gov)

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring. The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider...

Ransomware infection wipes all CloudNordic servers (www.theregister.com)

The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler (www.theverge.com)

The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler::The New York Times has officially blocked GPTBot, OpenAI’s web crawler. The outlet’s robot.txt page specifically disallows GPTBot, preventing OpenAI from scraping content from its website to train AI models.