The Supreme Court rejects a nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma (apnews.com)
FT: Ukraine, US, Israel in talks to send up to 8 Patriot systems to Kyiv (kyivindependent.com)
New German Citizenship Law Requires Applicants to Declare Israel's 'Right to Exist' (www.haaretz.com)
TeamViewer responds to security 'irregularity' in IT network (www.theregister.com)
eBay Removes Listing for StingRay Cellphone Spying Tech (www.404media.co)
An apparently original StingRay cell phone surveillance device listed on eBay was taken down by the company on Tuesday after 404 Media contacted it about the listing. The device, which was labeled as used, was up for sale for $100,000....
Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse (www.wired.com)
Gemma 2 is now available to researchers and developers (blog.google)
Context: Gemma is a group of free-to-use AI models with a focus on being small. According to benchmarks this outperforms Llama 3.
Israeli officers tortured this doctor to death, then hid news of his passing for months (www.middleeasteye.net)
At the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, Dr Iyad, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital’s maternity department, refused to leave Gaza City, opting to stay with his patients and fulfil his humanitarian mission. But after a month of intense Israeli bombardment and siege, including the targeting of hospitals, he decided to take...
Sci-fi racing platformer Distance gets a surprise update with Steam Deck improvements (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Deranged Politicians Are Trying to Ban Wearing Masks (futurism.com)
The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far) | esquire.com (www.esquire.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16892902...
Mongolia holds an election Friday. Its people see the government as benefiting the wealthy (apnews.com)
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — A parliamentary election will be held in Mongolia on Friday for the first time since the body was expanded to 126 seats, adding some uncertainty to a system that has been monopolized by two political parties and plagued by corruption....
South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware (www.tomshardware.com)
A group of R1 jailbreakers found a massive security flaw in Rabbit’s code (www.theverge.com)
India to mandate USB-C connectors on smartphones and laptops by 2026 (www.gsmarena.com)
62 Democrats Join 207 Republicans to Conceal Gaza Death Toll (theintercept.com)
AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk (theconversation.com)
Minnesota GOP Candidate Accused of Throwing Tarantula at Alleged ‘Squatter’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
Dr Disrespect Knowingly Sent Explicit Messages to a Minor, Former Twitch Employee Says (www.rollingstone.com)
“I recall that Dr Disrespect was made aware by the individual that they were underage during the conversation, after which he indicated that this was no problem and continued on,” the former employee says. “There was no confusion. Messages sent after this was acknowledged were no less graphic and in sexually explicit...
Cloudflare's recent blog regarding polyfill shows that Cloudflare never authorized Polyfill to use their name in their product (blog.cloudflare.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/16106778...
It’s the economy, stupid. Here’s what you need to know about it for the presidential debate (www.cnn.com)
Nvidia driver 555.58 released (www.nvidia.com)
Looks like it’s out of beta.