The US has sent at least 14,000 of its massive, highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs to Israel since October 7, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
France Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis (www.thedailybeast.com)
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....
Supreme Court Rules for Jan. 6 Defendant Who Challenged Obstruction Charge (www.theepochtimes.com)
Prosecutors laid charges under an evidence-tampering provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act aimed at curbing wrongdoing on Wall Street.
What do you mean there was a coup in Bolivia? (sh.itjust.works)
When they send their golpists, they’re not sending their best, folks. Terrible coup, actually. Top 10 worst coups, even.
Former Lehigh University Freshman faked his father's death for full scholarship (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17423369
'SuperSega' FPGA Console Will Play Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, Saturn And Dreamcast Games | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
‘SuperSega’ FPGA Console: A Comprehensive Sega Experience...
This week in KDE: everything, I think (pointieststick.com)
What Kenya’s deadly protests are really about (www.vox.com)
Less than a month after joining work on the Sands of Time remake, Ubisoft Toronto lays off 33 employees 'to ensure it can deliver on its ambitious roadmap' (www.pcgamer.com)
Years Later, Philippines Reckons With Duterte’s Brutal Drug War (www.nytimes.com)
NYTimes gift article, no paywall
Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training | It is sneaky and possibly illegal, according to the FTC (www.techspot.com)
Iranian Snap Elections Head to Runoff After Reformist Pezeshkian Takes Narrow Lead | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
U.S. proposed new language in effort to reach Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal (www.axios.com)
Qualcomm wants to make it easier for phone makers to issue Android updates (www.gsmarena.com)
Intel Arc Battlemage GPU surfaces — BMG-G31 silicon reportedly wields 32 Xe2 Cores (www.tomshardware.com)
Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand (www.wired.com)
Iranian reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili head to runoff presidential election (www.pbs.org)
Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.
Russia's LGBTQ+ community is turning to Telegram as the government cracks down on them (www.lgbtqnation.com)
[Self Promo] A site for discovering video game writers (www.reconnect.quest)
Sorry for self promo - but I don’t earn any money from this endeavour....
Bethesda Game Studios Montreal workers are trying to unionize (www.gamedeveloper.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/21476821