Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education (www.propublica.org)
Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (www.pcgamer.com)
When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates and families - A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use. (www.texastribune.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/texas-prisons-jails-tablets/
Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware (feddit.it)
One of those two sites is distributing adware. Which of them?...
Illicit fentanyl is entering the US at highest rates ever (www.dw.com)
Officials seized more than 115 million pills containing fentanyl in 2023. The opiate is often mixed with street drugs and linked to overdoses....
Mobilizon flies out of Framasoft's nest (joinmobilizon.org)
Army whistleblower who exposed alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan is sentenced to prison (apnews.com)
Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain (www.cnn.com)
Chinese planes 'increasingly provocative' to Taiwan (www.dw.com)
Taiwan reported 45 Chinese warplanes in its airspace within 24 hours, according to its defense ministry on Wednesday....
Earth-sized planet spotted orbiting small star with 100 times sun’s lifespan (www.theguardian.com)
Speculoos-3b, 55 light years away, is only second planetary system to be found around an ultra-cool red dwarf...
Blending dungeon-crawling with horde-shooters Gauntlet Of Power launches in June (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
Quantum Internet Draws Near Thanks To Entangled Memory Breakthroughs (tech.slashdot.org)
Greedfall 2: The Dying World – The First Hands-On Preview - IGN (www.ign.com)
Jan. 6 Situation Room Officer Reveals Trump Fans ‘Came That Close’ To Murdering VP In Stunning New Interview (www.mediaite.com)
Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....
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France imposes state of emergency in New Caledonia as unrest continues (www.npr.org)
Always weird to me how France is so insistent on clinging to its colonial empire, two decades into the 21st century, despite the headaches that causes.
'We're Gonna Win': Alabama Mercedes Workers Begin UAW Vote (www.commondreams.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15378719...
Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese electric cars (www.bbc.com)
How China is helping keep the Russian economy afloat (www.dw.com)
China threw Russia an economic lifebelt after the West hit Moscow with sanctions over the war in Ukraine. As Putin prepares to visit Beijing this week to promote even closer ties, Washington is ramping up the pressure....
FDA approves self-tests for cervical cancer, as an alternative to the dreaded pelvic exam (www.usatoday.com)
NVIDIA and MediaTek to Collaborate on Next-Gen Mobile SoCs for PC Gaming Handhelds (www.indiekings.com)
More than 30% of world’s electricity now comes from renewables, report reveals (www.euronews.com)
