Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations (fortune.com)
When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be....
Iran sentences rapper to death for supporting popular protests in his songs (www.bbc.com)
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Here's a first look at Bluetooth audio sharing in Android 15 (www.androidauthority.com)
Google Meet will let you transfer calls between web and phone with ‘Switch here’ (9to5google.com)
SaGa Emerald Beyond released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Jusant on GoG [20% off] (www.gog.com)
Torn - Online RPG game - Free text based game (www.torn.com)
Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes (www.nytimes.com)
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (arstechnica.com)
U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. official....
School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis (arstechnica.com)
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany' (www.pcgamer.com)
win10/11 zip files... how to _include_ empty folders? (moist.catsweat.com)
im trying to wrap up a minor process (small dir tree of crap) into a zip file for use by others, but microsoft has decided zips shouldnt include empty folders? wtf?...
Iran: Rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death, says lawyer (www.dw.com)
Popular rapper Toomaj Salehi wrote songs in support of the protest movement in Iran following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in 2022. He has been in jail for over a year....
Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (www.theverge.com)
Horses loose in London latest: Blood on road and smashed vehicles after horses tear through city - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Several soldiers and horses are injured after five threw off their riders near Buckingham Palace and raced through London.
US plans for Gaza aid pier branded ‘smokescreen’ to allow Israeli invasion of Rafah (www.independent.co.uk)
Pasteurized milk includes remnants of H5N1 bird flu, U.S. officials say (www.cbc.ca)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that samples of pasteurized milk have tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows....
Shit. (slrpnk.net)
Chinese EV battery maker CATL unveils LFP battery with 1,000 km range (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don't Kill Imran Khan in Prison (theintercept.com)
Foreign policy experts in Washington said the Biden administration’s approach risked transgressing democratic principles in the name of security. Matt Duss, executive vice president of the Center for International Policy, said, “This appears to be an example where the administration is allowing its security relationship with...
Coca-Cola is largest known contributor of branded plastic waste, global study finds (www.axios.com)
Scottish Greens to oppose Yousaf in no-confidence vote (www.bbc.co.uk)
Moscow pressured Nicaragua to file genocide case against Germany, intel sources say (www.politico.eu)
The Kremlin may have been trying to undermine the ICJ’s authority by making it a venue for specious legal arguments, say authorities....