European prosecutors take over Belgian probe into Pfizergate (www.politico.eu)
BRICS invites Serbia to the next summit, Vučić leaves open possibility meeting Putin (euronews.al)
Iran arrests two ISIS-K members: Report (english.alarabiya.net)
Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies (arstechnica.com)
Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. Why has this happened? The answer highlights a profound flaw in how decisions too often get made in our legal system: for-profit jail telecom companies realized that they could earn more profit from phone and video calls if...
Florida Supreme Court allows 6-week abortion ban to take effect, but voters will have the final say (www.nbcnews.com)
In a pair of significant decisions, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday to uphold a 15-week ban on abortion in the state, while also allowing a proposed amendment that would enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution to appear on the November ballot....
Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills seven working for food aid NGO (www.reuters.com)
The death toll from yesterday’s strike is up to seven now....
research!rsc: The xz attack shell script (research.swtch.com)
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Gaza: Shifa Medical Complex witnesses one of the largest massacres in Palestinian history (euromedmonitor.org)
The Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City over the course of the past two weeks, indiscriminately targeting and attacking Palestinians regardless of their civilian status, professional standing, gender, age, or health condition....
Owner of ship that destroyed Key Bridge files limitation of liability action in federal court - Maryland Daily Record (thedailyrecord.com)
The owner of the ship that toppled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge appears to be seeking to cap the amount of damages that the company can be forced to pay following the deadly crash....
Finland shooting: Child, 12, wounds three in Vantaa school shooting (www.bbc.com)
Police say they responded to the incident at Viertola school before 09:00 (06:00 GMT) on Tuesday and urged local residents to remain indoors....
Haitian Community Defenders Fight US-Armed Death Squads and Puppet Governments (scheerpost.com)
China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than experts expected: report (www.scmp.com)
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The EU compromise machine is breaking — and everyone’s blaming Germany (www.politico.eu)
Berlin’s domestic spats are gumming up the EU’s delicate policymaking process....
Israel Coordinates with International Food Aid Workers, Only to Murder Them in a Drone Strike (www.thecanary.co)
Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug emergence in centuries (apnews.com)
Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries....
Trump's coming stock bust (www.businessinsider.com)
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Cicadas are nature's weirdos. They pee stronger than us and an STD can turn them into zombies (apnews.com)
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Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
ouroboros (lemmy.world)
European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches (www.politico.eu)
Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority....
When push comes to shove, China edges out US as S-E Asia’s preferred superpower: ISEAS survey (www.straitstimes.com)
Multigenerational housing is coming back in a big way. Americans used to live in multigenerational homes. We’re starting to, again (www.vox.com)
Layla Ahmed is, by any measure, a responsible adult. She works at a nonprofit in Nashville helping refugees. Makes 50k a year. Saves money. Pays her bills on time....
Been getting a lot of these emails lately (imgflip.com)
