Lebanon: Shots fired at US Embassy in Beirut (www.dw.com)
One assailant has been hospitalized after being shot and wounded by the Lebanese army. The embassy said no staff were harmed in the incident....
Biden: ‘every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war for political gain (www.theguardian.com)
US president’s remarks to Time magazine about PM’s role in conflict draw heavily critical response from Israeli government...
10 big things we think will happen in the next 10 years (www.vox.com)
Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content (www.reuters.com)
A former Meta engineer on Tuesday accused the company of bias in its handling of content related to the war in Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts....
Hamas wants Israel to commit to permanent ceasefire, full withdrawal from Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Hamas cannot agree to any deal unless Israel makes a “clear” commitment to a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a senior official from the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday....
Foreign streamers must pay into fund to boost Canadian content, CRTC says (www.cbc.ca)
Money will be put toward funding for local, Indigenous broadcasting, per briefing
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned | Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary (arstechnica.com)
Deepfake Laws Forget Sex Workers (www.404media.co)
In the seven years since I first wrote about deepfakes, before there was even a word for the AI-powered face-swapping technology, people have finally started to realize that sexually explicit deepfakes meant to harass, blackmail, threaten, or simply disregard women’s consent have always been the primary use of the...
Google might keep your Pixel during a repair if you're caught using non-OEM parts (www.androidpolice.com)
Modi loses ground in parliament, but his Hindu nationalist policies are here to stay (thehill.com)
For the first time since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in 2014, the party did not secure a majority on its own in 2024 national election. But the prime minister’s coalition is still expected to run the country for another five years....
Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate to 4.75% (www.cbc.ca)
Ex-Meta engineer sues company, accusing the company of being biased against employees supporting Palestine. (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/17800034...
Washington ready to blackmail Maldives for banning Israeli travelers (thecradle.co)
To further increase pressure against criticism of Israel, US lawmakers recently passed a bill to sanction ICC officials
US lawmakers advance Bill to sanction ICC over Israel probe (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Kali Linux 2024.2 Release (t64, GNOME 46 & Community Packages) | Kali Linux Blog (www.kali.org)
Ukraine sent special forces to Syria to attack Russians there, revealing a new front to the war: report (www.businessinsider.com)
Mass graves and body bags: Gaza's al-Shifa hospital after Israel withdrew its forces (www.bbc.com)
- After Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City’s vast al-Shifa hospital -once the biggest and best equipped medical facility in the Gaza Strip- on 1 April, following their second raid there, the claim that there had been no civilian casualties was immediately questioned....
Google was apprised of thousands of minor incidents between 2013 and 2019 that affected user privacy. (www.spiceworks.com)
404 Media noted that Google accidentally collected childrens’ voice data through the Gboard microphone, leaked carpool users’ trips and home addresses (Waze), collected license plate info from Street View, and made YouTube recommendations derived from deleted watch history....
ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month (arstechnica.com)
Humble Choice for June has Risk of Rain 2, LEGO 2K Drive, Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector and more [referal links in the article] (www.gamingonlinux.com)
ZOTAC ZONE: ASUS ROG Ally and Steam Deck challenger to launch September 2024 for €799 (www.notebookcheck.net)
China, India interfered in races for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, report says (www.cbc.ca)
A report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) says there were two instance of alleged interference by China in Conservative Party of Canada leadership races....
Warner Bros. Discovery hikes prices for Max streaming service, 12 days before the debut of season two of HBO's "House of the Dragon" (www.cnbc.com)
Know-What vs Know-How (open.substack.com)
EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)
We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...