Feds Recently Hit Cargo Giant In Baltimore Disaster For Silencing Whistleblowers (www.levernews.com)
The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety concerns to the U.S. Coast Guard — in violation of a seaman whistleblower protection law, according to regulatory filings reviewed by...
Opinion: Why I’m resigning from the State Department (www.cnn.com)
Men charged with smuggling Indian family who died near Canada-U.S. border plead not guilty (www.cbc.ca)
A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling....
State department official’s resignation highlights rifts over US Gaza policy (www.theguardian.com)
A human rights official has resigned from the US state department over Gaza saying the Biden administration is flouting US law by continuing to arm Israel, and is hushing up evidence that the US had seen on Israeli human rights abuses.
Linux Gender? (lemm.ee)
Inside the Historic Suit That the Gun Industry and Republicans Are on the Verge of Killing (www.propublica.org)
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)
Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....
Israeli strikes on Rafah raise fear assault could begin (www.reuters.com)
Israel bombed at least three homes in Rafah overnight, raising new fear among the more than a million people sheltering in the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip that a long-threatened ground assault could be coming....
Lego tells California police: stop putting our heads on your mugshots (www.theguardian.com)
Toy company makes request after altered images – which hide suspects’ identities in line with state law – go viral...
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. to Acquire The Gearbox Entertainment Company Inc. [from Embracer: costs 460 million] (www.businesswire.com)
for context: this is the announcement for Embracer’s embracing of GearBox on February 3, 2021
The British Museum is suing a former curator it says stole 1,800 items and tried to sell them (apnews.com)
The British Museum went to court Tuesday against a former curator alleged to have stolen hundreds of artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online....
I'm giving them a year until lifetime licenses start to mean nothing. (slrpnk.net)
Monitoring closely: US reacts to India summoning its diplomat over criticism of Kejriwal's arrest. (i.imgur.com)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/22372966...
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street (www.riverfronttimes.com)
Woman who was held hostage by Hamas speaks out on her abduction and sexual assault (edition.cnn.com)
The Future of ‘Star Trek’: From ‘Starfleet Academy’ to New Movies and Michelle Yeoh, How the 58-Year-Old Franchise Is Planning for the Next Generation of Fans (variety.com)
spleen. (lemmus.org)
Smilegate Barcelona reportedly closed and all employees let go (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be hat bobble (www.bbc.com)
Macron rattled as EU election defeat looms (www.politico.eu)
French President Emmanuel Macron is turning up the heat on his lieutenants ahead of the European election as the far-right National Rally continues to build on its seemingly unstoppable momentum....