Billionaire-Friendly Modi Humbled by Indians Who Make $4 a Day (www.yahoo.com)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/26271113...
Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman’s Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison (www.nbcnews.com)
Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms -mostly in Ukraine, France and Germany- with fake content and seek to divert their efforts (checkfirst.network)
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Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - Gothamist (gothamist.com)
This is a very entertaining and educational article, giving insights into the methods used by thiefs to try and get access to your phone data....
Biden and Macron use D-day event to emphasise support for Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Leaders rally behind Zelenskiy to make clear to Putin that, as in 1944, freedom in Europe is worth fighting for...
Argentina year-end inflation estimate drops to 146% in cenbank poll (www.reuters.com)
A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Biden Claims Israel Isn't Starving Gazans. Rights Groups Say 'It Is Clear as Day' (www.commondreams.org)
Children Among Dozens Killed in Attack on Sudanese Village (www.nytimes.com)
A gun and artillery assault by Sudanese paramilitaries on a village in Sudan’s main farming region killed at least 104 people, including dozens of children, Sudanese pro-democracy activists said.The exact circumstances of the attack on Wednesday at Wad al-Noura, a village 70 miles south of the capital, Khartoum, were disputed....
Malaysia evicts 500 ‘sea nomads’ (www.bangkokpost.com)
Russia's biggest energy company says it'll take it at least 10 years to recover gas sales lost because of the Ukraine war (finance.yahoo.com)
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom won’t recover gas sales lost to the Ukraine war for at least a decade....
Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line (www.backerkit.com)
I hope this is cool to post here. It’s a Backerkit project for a documentary about Sierra On-line. I grew up playing these and figured there might be some other old farts around who would be interested....
UK election: TikTok users being fed misleading election news, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
Young voters in key election battlegrounds are being recommended fake AI-generated videos featuring party leaders, misinformation, and clips littered with abusive comments, the BBC has found....
Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple are bigger than China's stock market (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
This highlights how stock market plays a far bigger role in US economy than it does in China....
Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes (nichegamer.com)
Young job seekers are finding it tougher to find employment, despite a bustling labor market: 'It was brutal' (www.cnbc.com)
Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet — only to wind up hooked on porn, social media (nypost.com)
VLC 3.0.21 Adds New AMD VQ Enhancer Filter, Improves Opus Ambisonic Support (9to5linux.com)
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI (www.wired.com)
South Africa’s President Announces Plan to Form National Unity Government (www.nytimes.com)
Led by the A.N.C. since the fall of apartheid, South Africa has been in limbo since the watershed election on May 29 when voters punished the ruling party for failing to address issues like skyrocketing unemployment, regular power outages and high rates of crime....
US and allies warn China is intensifying its efforts to recruit Western military pilots (www.cnn.com)
The warning from the U.S. and its four closest intellignce partners follows several arrests of U.S. service members for allegedly trying to pass info to China....
Jewish US Army Major Explains Why He Resigned Over Gaza | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
After Harrison Mann’s resignation from the U.S. military was finalized on Monday, the Jewish U.S. Army major who worked in the Defense Intelligence Agency gave a pair of interviews this week explaining his decision to resign over American support for Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip....
Russian adult content provider forced to entrap gay men online by Dagestan police (novayagazeta.eu)
A Russian male adult content provider was detained in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan for the second time in two weeks on Wednesday after reportedly being forced to entrap gay men online by the republic’s police....
Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (www.bloomberg.com)
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