Abbas appoints adviser as prime minister amid calls for reform (apnews.com)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister in the face of U.S. pressure to reform the Palestinian Authority as part of Washington’s postwar vision for Gaza....
In Haiti, a police officer-turned-gangster is trying to seize control of the country (www.nbcnews.com)
Jimmy “Barbeque” Chérizier’s forces have laid siege to Haiti’s main international airport, traded fire with troops at government sites and sparked a mass jailbreak....
Google’s Gemini Nano model could soon power on-device article summaries (www.androidauthority.com)
Five of the 45 finalists in this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism disclosed using AI (www.niemanlab.org)
US Suffers Humiliating Defeat in Haiti (orinocotribune.com)
Europe’s world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers. Here’s what happens next (english.elpais.com)
A TikTok Ban Would Be A Tragedy For Gaming Communities (kotaku.com)
US game spending ‘could be down 10% this year’ | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms (www.pbs.org)
Kansas will pay $1 million over the murder of a boy torture victim whose body was fed to pigs (apnews.com)
Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over a 7-year-old boy’s murder in 2015 alleging that the state’s child welfare agency should have removed him from an abusive home before he was starved and tortured and his body was fed to pigs....
The US privately told Israel the kind of Rafah campaign it could support (www.politico.com)
Senior U.S. officials have told their Israeli counterparts the Biden administration would support Israel going after high-value Hamas targets in and underneath Rafah — as long as Israel avoids a large-scale invasion that could fracture the alliance....
Final Factory Launch Trailer (yt.artemislena.eu)
Youtube
Nearly half of young adults have 'money dysmorphia,' survey finds (www.cnbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13092510...
Hezbollah Chief Holds US Responsible for Genocide of Palestinians (peoplesdispatch.org)
Greta Thunberg dragged by police from climate protest blocking Swedish parliament (www.independent.co.uk)
IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible (research.ibm.com)
“Imagine it, build it” at MIT (news.mit.edu)
good way to learn
China: TikTok ban would 'come back to bite' the US (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
China has issued a cautionary statement in response to a proposed TikTok ban in the US
Report claims Yemen's Houthis have a hypersonic missile, possibly raising stakes in Red Sea crisis (apnews.com)
Yemen managed to get hypersonic weapons before US did 😂
After Ubisoft's AAAA games decree, in comes the indie developers' triple-I initiative (www.destructoid.com)
Apex Legends Developer Respawn Hit By EA Layoffs (www.gamespot.com)
YouTube is revamping its TV app to make videos feel way more interactive (www.theverge.com)
Russian election: Alexei Navalny’s final plan to cause Vladimir Putin ‘maximum damage’ (www.politico.eu)
Before his death, the opposition leader laid out a strategy to challenge the Russian president....
Study Finds Link Between Tapeworm Eggs in Brain and Undercooked Bacon Consumption (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
A man in the United States, who had been experiencing frequent migraines, was startled to discover tapeworm eggs in his brain, a condition likely stem