kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

China calls for probe after five Chinese engineers killed in suicide attack in Pakistan (indianexpress.com)

Court ruling effectively outlaws Islamic schools in India’s most populous state (www.cnn.com)

Feds Recently Hit Cargo Giant In Baltimore Disaster For Silencing Whistleblowers (www.levernews.com)

Water scarcity in the world (www.kaggle.com)

Ronna McDaniel is out. But why are TV networks paying partisan pundits at all? (www.npr.org)

The Delta IV Heavy, a rocket whose time has come and gone, will fly once last time. (arstechnica.com)

Metal: Hellsinger VR - Metal: Hellsinger is coming to VR! - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)

SWIFT planning launch of new central bank digital currency platform in 12-24 months (www.reuters.com)

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Big Shakeup At Nintendo Testing Center Ahead Of Switch 2 (kotaku.com)

Ingenious "Fish Doorbell" Helps Fish Migration In The Netherlands (www.dogonews.com)

Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country (www.theguardian.com)

Man Arrested After Allegedly Eating Leg of Person Injured by Train at Accident Scene (people.com)

Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization (www.phoronix.com)

After more than a year, Denuvo vanishes from The Callisto Protocol (www.pcgamesn.com)

Sega Workers Ratify Union Contract, First at a Major Gaming Company (www.bloomberg.com)

Hunter Biden to seek dismissal of tax charges he argues are politically motivated (www.google.com)

Disney, DeSantis' allies reach settlement in lawsuit (apnews.com)

Israeli source of "executed children" lie admits story was untrue (electronicintifada.net)

TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Mitsubishi made a Jeep CJ until 1998. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

While picking up my daughter from school today, I noticed an old jeep in the parking lot, but did not think much of it until I saw the tri-spoked Mitsubishi logo above the grill and did quite the double-take. Apparently a number of foreign companies were licensed to produce them after WW2.

Israel Carries Out Several Attacks Inside Lebanon and Syria Killing Civilians (peoplesdispatch.org)

Cocoa prices hit $10,000 per metric ton for the first time ever (www.cnbc.com)

Difficult weather conditions and disease have affected production in West Africa, which produces about 70% of the world’s cocoa. The two largest producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, have been hit by a combination of heavy rain, dry heat and disease recently....

Xbox Cloud Gaming adding mouse and keyboard support (www.eurogamer.net)

Haitians Don’t Need More “Dumbasses” From the US State Department Weighing In on the Crisis (www.thenation.com)

In 2021, envoy Foote started to work with this coalition, which was called the Montana Accord and eventually included some 650 organizations and individuals—labor unions, community organizations, Catholic and Protestant churches, women’s groups, chambers of commerce, and a range of political groups. The State Department...