FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole (arstechnica.com)
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking (arstechnica.com)
Surely the clearest path to retaining only the best.
Boeing 737 crashes during take-off in Senegal (www.bbc.com)
'Indomitable' Gaza Journalist Bisan Owda Awarded Peabody for War Coverage (www.commondreams.org)
Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 (twistedvoxel.com)
We've almost reached the end of the 1st half of 2024, and Xbox has had more studio closures than first party game releases in the year so far.
Republican clerk charged in Michigan voting-system breach (www.reuters.com)
A Michigan township clerk was charged with multiple felonies on Wednesday, the latest turn in a state inquiry into efforts by Donald Trump supporters to tamper with voting machines to prove his false claim that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud....
Florida deputies who fatally shot US airman burst into wrong apartment, attorney says (apnews.com)
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday....
ArchiveBox - Open source self-hosted web archiving (archivebox.io)
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…
Biden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah — the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza — over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there....
Google employees questioned leadership about cost cuts, layoffs and “morale” issues following the company’s better-than-expected first-quarter earnings report. (www.cnbc.com)
Dutch Police Smash Pro-Palestine Protest Camp (scheerpost.com)
GOP Lawmakers in Louisiana Reject Adding Rape & Incest Exceptions for Children to Abortion Ban. Again. (www.jezebel.com)
Biden says US will withhold weapons from Israel if it invades Rafah (www.reuters.com)
May 8 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday publicly warned Israel for the first time that the U.S. would stop supplying it weapons if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafah, a refugee-packed city in southern Gaza....
CFPB rule to save Americans $10 billion a year in late fees faces possible last-minute freeze (www.cnbc.com)
Naming names, it’s up to Texas Judge Mark T. Pittman.
Brexit eel wars: Brussels accuses Britain of being too green (www.politico.eu)
Snakey fish fight is center stage as U.K.’s new environmental measures rub the EU the wrong way....
Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case (apnews.com)
A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump....
Biden campaign uses Drake and Kendrick Lamar drama to diss Trump (www.usatoday.com)
House kills motion to vacate Johnson from speakership (www.cnn.com)
'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch (animehunch.com)
The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse....
3 skiers missing in Utah avalanche, search underway: Police (abcnews.go.com)
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio (www.theverge.com)
There seems to be some confusion here.
How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic (gfw.report)
Archived version...
Qualcomm and Intel can't sell chips to Huawei anymore, report claims (www.gsmarena.com)
University of Barcelona's senate votes in favor of pro-Palestine protesters requests (www.catalannews.com)
Students have been camping in the building protesting university's ties with Israel...