Trudeau announces $2.4 billion package to "secure Canada's AI advantage" (www.pm.gc.ca)
EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility (www.windowscentral.com)
Herzog visits Rwanda for genocide memorial; will highlight hostages, terrorism (www.timesofisrael.com)
In addition to Herzog, the ceremony marking three decades since the genocide began is being attended by former United States president Bill Clinton, who has called his failure to intervene on behalf of the Tutsis “one of the greatest regrets of my presidency.”
Four soldiers killed fighting in southern Gaza as war on Hamas hits six-month mark (www.timesofisrael.com)
The four were killed Saturday when gunmen came out of a tunnel in a destroyed building and opened fire at troops carrying out a patrol along the IDF’s logistics route in Khan Younis, according to an initial military probe. The operatives apparently managed to flee back into the tunnel....
US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines to stage military drills in disputed South China Sea (apnews.com)
The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force Sunday in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm....
Scientists confirm record highs for three most important heat-trapping gases (www.theguardian.com)
Global concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide climbed to unseen levels in 2023, underlining climate crisis...
David Cameron warns of Gaza famine as UK sends Royal Navy ship to boost aid effort (www.theguardian.com)
Social Software Hacker Theory #1 – Conflict-Encouraging- vs. Discussion-Encouraging-UI-Design on the Fediverse (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Thoughts on these SATA/M.2-->SATA/2.5" adapters? (feddit.nl)
Trying to squeeze some more storage in my MiniPC. I have questions about these. These use hardward RAID with selectable modes (Individual/JBOD/RAID1/RAID2)....
Peter Pellegrini: Russia-friendly populist elected Slovak president (www.bbc.com)
Populist Peter Pellegrini has been elected president of Slovakia, succeeding the liberal Zuzana Caputova....
Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds (www.livescience.com)
48 seconds. I predict a glut of helium. balloons for everyone
In a First, AlmaLinux Patches a Security Hole That Remains Unpatched in Upstream RHEL - FOSS Force (fossforce.com)
Photo : AlmaLinux Day, held on March 18, 2024 in Rust, Germany. Does that mean more Rust in the Linux kernel ? :-)
Team-Kodi PPA officially retired, switches to Flatpak (kodi.tv)
IDF withdraws all ground troops from southern Gaza, leaving just one brigade in the enclave (www.timesofisrael.com)
Overnight, the IDF withdrew all ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, after four straight months of fighting in the Khan Younis area....
Greta Thunberg detained at The Hague climate demonstration (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
I dockerized my Nextcloud (github.com)
For years I’ve been running my Nextcloud on bare metal. Now I finally decided to switch it to docker. I looked into Nextcloud All-In-One and it seems easy to deploy but it lacks configuration options like multiple domain names and putting it behind a traefik reverse proxy is kind of a pain to set up....
More than 4,000 people evacuated in Russia after dam bursts (www.theguardian.com)
Water levels continue to rise after dam burst near Kazakhstan border after torrential rain...
They're multiplying like rabbits. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information (apnews.com)
The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year — two of them crucial to the presidential contest....
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe (www.theguardian.com)
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem...
Sen. Bernie Sanders's office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear (apnews.com)
Work permits grow, but undocumented immigrants are left hungry for access (thehill.com)
Russia increases gasoline imports from Belarus as domestic supplies shrink (www.reuters.com)
Russia has increased gasoline imports from neighbouring Belarus in March to tackle the risk of shortages in its domestic market because of unscheduled repairs at Russian refineries after drone attacks, four industry and trade sources said on Wednesday....
