Deranged Politicians Are Trying to Ban Wearing Masks (futurism.com)
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)
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)
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...
TeamViewer responds to security 'irregularity' in IT network (www.theregister.com)
Minnesota GOP Candidate Accused of Throwing Tarantula at Alleged ‘Squatter’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
I tried to replace my Xbox Series X with a smart TV (www.digitaltrends.com)
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...
A group of R1 jailbreakers found a massive security flaw in Rabbit’s code (www.theverge.com)
It’s the economy, stupid. Here’s what you need to know about it for the presidential debate (www.cnn.com)
Sci-fi racing platformer Distance gets a surprise update with Steam Deck improvements (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Schools Police Chief Indicted in Uvalde Shooting Response (www.nytimes.com)
Q: “Are we doomed?” A: “We would be, if not for the amazing developments in renewable energy.” (powering-the-planet.ghost.io)
I wasn’t aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.
The Supreme Court rejects a nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma (apnews.com)
Wild Boar Has Five Times More Toxic PFAS Than Humans Allowed To Eat (www.forbes.com)
A new study has found that European wild boar, Sus scrofa, contains toxic PFAS (per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) at levels that are nearly five times greater than what is allowed under EU law in meat sold for human consumption.
Two candidates drop out of Iran presidential election, due to take place Friday amid voter apathy (apnews.com)
Iranians are set to go to the polls to cast their ballots in an upcoming vote to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi. Associated Press news director Jon Gambrell explains how Iran’s foreign policy could be affected by the election this Friday....
Paris Hilton testifies to Congress on being ‘sexually abused and force-fed meds’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Former heads of Bolivia’s army and navy arrested over failed coup (www.theguardian.com)
Today I learned Choice VA was created after the 2014 VA scandel. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk (theconversation.com)
Scholz proposes equally high tariffs for EVs from China and the EU - electrive.com (www.electrive.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.
US Crime Rate Drops to ‘Historic’ Lows With Murders, Rapes, and Robbery Plunging, New Statistics Show (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
