Britain's Sunak cites growing up without Sky TV as example of hardship (www.reuters.com)
The Danger of Nuclear War is Real: Upcoming Press Conference (t.me)
Cases of deadly disease caused by ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria hit record high in Japan (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16815561
Announcing systemd v256 (0pointer.net)
Every Dollar Counts. To Pay for the War, Ukraine Embraces Privatization (www.nytimes.com)
Ukraine is being sold for parts
Less Than 3% of G7 Military Spending Could Help End Global Hunger and Solve Global South Debt Crisis (www.commondreams.org)
Brooklyn Museum’s Jewish Leaders’ Homes Targeted by Vandals (www.thedailybeast.com)
One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean (www.phoronix.com)
Covered last week on Phoronix was a new patch from Intel that with tuning to the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver was showing big wins for Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” performance and power efficiency. I was curious with the Intel claims posted for a couple benchmarks and thus over the weekend set out to run many Intel...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warns against apathy and inaction, amid spike forced displacement. (www.unhcr.org)
The rise in overall forced displacement – to 120 million by May 2024 – was the 12th consecutive annual increase and reflects both new and mutating conflicts and a failure to resolve long-standing crises. The figure would make the global displaced population equivalent to the 12th largest country in the world, around the size...
China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says (arstechnica.com)
- Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing it, Netherlands government officials said....
NBA legend Jerry West, whose silhouette is on the league’s logo, dies aged 86 (www.independent.co.uk)
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.4 Released To Optimize Hybrid CPUs On Linux (www.phoronix.com)
Trump cites Biden’s 'disturbing grin' in effort to terminate limited gag order in hush money case - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16461352...
Germany launches 11th-hour bid to avert trade war with China (www.politico.eu)
Germany wants the EU to set tariffs on electric vehicles at a low level to avoid severe retaliation from Beijing....
At least 41 dead as fire engulfs building housing migrant workers in Kuwait (www.independent.co.uk)
At least 41 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a high-rise building housing migrant workers in the city of Mangaf in southern Kuwait on Wednesday....
ACLU sues Biden over border executive order that allows him to turn back migrants (www.independent.co.uk)
Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to 45 minutes awarded Longitude prize (www.theguardian.com)
Oregon man who drugged daughter's friends with insomnia medication at sleepover gets prison term (apnews.com)
An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison....
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (abcnews.go.com)
Meta tried to discredit researchers who identified fraudulent ads in its platforms (nucleo.jor.br)
The [US] West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico (www.wired.com)
Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy (arstechnica.com)
We haven’t pinned down the masses of any individual neutrino, and we don’t even know which ones are heavier than the others. When it comes to our ability to collect raw data, neutrinos present a triple threat: they’re incredibly lightweight (even the electron weighs over 5 million times more than all the neutrinos...